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Sydney Vargas

Sydney Vargas

Sydney Vargas is a creative with a passion for having conversations. She currently studies at San Francisco State University. The relationship between culture and identity fascinates her. Both her free and not so free time is spent in front of the television consuming embarrassing amounts of reality tv and HBO.

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Two skateboarders skate down the ramp in front of the Fine Arts Building at SF State on Feb. 5, 2021. (Cameron Lee / Golden Gate Xpress)

Visual, performing arts set stage for fall semester

Sydney Vargas May 10, 2021

Kim Schwartz, director of SF State’s School of Theatre & Dance, has occasionally visited her office this semester. On her walks through the halls, she purposely avoids walking past the theatre.  “It...

Gator Talk Episode 13 : Online Friendships

Gator Talk Episode 13 : Online Friendships

Sydney Vargas and Sebastian Mino-Bucheli Apr 30, 2021

Welcome to Gator Talk, a collaborative CalState podcast that brings city and statewide perspectives to SF State news. At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Happy hour zoom calls with friends you...

A storage shelf in Christian Cantrell’s room with various musicals on March 14. Cantrell is a lyricist and composer in the SF State Drama Department. (Avery Wilcox / Golden Gate Xpress)

Fringe Festival takes its second virtual curtain call

Sydney Vargas Apr 27, 2021
"Fringe was created for the stage," said Angelina Tolbert, who debuted two plays at the 25-year-old Fringe Festival
Abarca, who took over as The Depot's head manager in Spring 2020, said her goal is to keep The Depot alive for current and future students. (Lea Loeb / Golden Gate Xpress)

Keeping The Depot alive, through the spirit of its manager

Sydney Vargas Apr 22, 2021

It was a packed karaoke night at The Depot in Fall 2019 – the first karaoke night of the semester. Paloma Abarca had just become the venue’s assistant manager and was still getting used to hosting...

The entrance of Portola Gardens on Feb. 23. A shortage of gerontology majors has led to fewer doctors who specialize in elderly care. (Cameron Lee / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State Gerontology program struggles as industry booms

Sydney Vargas Apr 5, 2021

SF State’s Gerontology program is declining in faculty as the national need for geriatricians rises, leaving practitioner nurses to fill the gaps.  By 2030, one out of five Americans will be over...

Nick Sousanis and Yue-Ting Siu moderate and host Adapting Comics for Blind and Low Vision readers, a roundtable discussion to a live crowd of hundreds on Zoom. (Sydney Vargas / Golden Gate Xpress)

Comics roundtable on blindness sparks conversation among hundreds of attendees

Sydney Vargas Mar 24, 2021

Comic books are an extremely visual media, universally known for bright colors, small characters and even smaller texts. By nature, it leaves out a certain audience, for the most part, almost completely...

Illustration of Cardi B at a performance with the Grammy Award and hands in a power fist. Courtesy of the Recording Academy® / Getty Images © 2020 and a photo by Diana Rubio found on Flickr of Cardi B used for cropping in and drawing reference to have the original photo built upon. (Sebastian Miño-Bucheli / Golden Gate Xpress)

Grammys provide stage for music of the pandemic to come to life

Sydney Vargas Mar 16, 2021

Listening to music is always an intimate experience, but music that has been released during the pandemic has been uniquely intimate and virtual. Sunday’s Grammy Awards 2021 celebrated and snubbed the...

Karla Beauty Marx and Sydney Vargas posed for a photo during the interview for the Endometriosis episode. (Sydney Vargas / Golden Gate Xpress)

[Photo] Gator Talk Episode 6

Sebastian Mino-Bucheli and Sydney Vargas Mar 12, 2021

Karla Beauty Marx and Sydney Vargas posed for a photo during the interview for the Endometriosis episode. (Sydney Vargas / Golden Gate Xpress)

The pride flag with the 'Black Power' emblem is flown at the 'All Black Lives Matter' march in Los Angeles in June 2020. At least 30,00 people, reported by NBC Los Angeles, were in attendance. (Chris Ramirez / Golden Gate Xpress)

House passes Equality Act for second time

Sydney Vargas Feb 27, 2021

The House voted to pass the Equality Act on Thursday, making way to establish a national protection against discrimination for LGBTQ+ individuals.   The Equality Act passed in a vote of 224-206, mostly...

Daft Punk, the French electronic music duo comprised of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, announced their split Monday morning. (Courtesy of Max Lohr)

After 28 years of helmets, synths and dance music, Daft Punk calls it quits

Sydney Vargas and Matthew Faludi Feb 22, 2021

There might not be a group that has been as impactful on electronic music as Daft Punk has. The French duo helped shape the genre. Over the pair’s 28-year history, they released four studio albums, composed...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared her experience at the Capitol insurrection over an Instagram Livestream on February 1, 2020. (Kyran Berlin / Golden Gate Xpress)

Students, survivors outpour support for AOC following livestream

Sydney Vargas Feb 19, 2021

Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse and Violence    Hashtags such as #AOClied, #AOCLiar and #AOCSmollett began trending on Feb. 3, two days after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described her experience...

The wrestling gym at SF State on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2021. (Cameron Lee / Golden Gate Xpress)

‘Get Tough’ Remembering Coach Lars Jensen’s Legacy

Sydney Vargas Feb 1, 2021

The year was 1980. Lars Jensen, a college senior, had just won the SF State annual wrestling tournament. The team, excited — the energy, palpable. But after a day of setup and wrestling, all were...

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