Combination Sentiment
Poem by Margot T. // Art by Fernando Amaro
December 7, 2004

Don't be rash
Calm your inner tempest
And I will cull you a lullaby
To soothe your raw throat

San Jose Named Safest Large City in America
But For Whom?
Comic by Samuel Rodriguez // Audio by David Madrid // Story by Anthony Rios
December 5, 2004

According to recently released statistics, San Jose is the safest large city in the country. But do people in San Jose feel safe?

Holiday Hoax
Tis the Season for Family Drama and WalMart Sales
Story by Miguel Gonzalez // Art by Wesley Vara

There is yet another version of this holiday season, which is just as American. Many families mark the beginning of their holidays with a family fight...

Song to Soul
How Ray Charles Spoke to Me
Story by Patricia Black // Art by Wesley Vara
December 4, 2004

I turned on the radio yesterday to find that clear channel still rules the airways. In place of Britney Spears, I was looking forward to hearing Ray Charles...

RIP Old Dirty Bastard
Our Ghetto Heroes Were Meant To Die
By Hector Gonzalez
December 2, 2004
The death of Ol' Dirty Bastard did not come as a surprise to me...

Ballers Are Not Gods
Un-deifying the Athlete
By Junior Sanchez
December 1, 2004

A long time ago rock stars were crossed off the list of positive role models, and with the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, presidents had to go too...

My Secret Education
The Two Years of Community College that "Never Happened"
Story by Ali Rahnoma // Art by Marco Reyes
Novermber 23, 2004

I've spent the last two years of my life receiving an education from De Anza Community College behind my family's back.   During that time I had the audacity to tell them that I already graduated from college at a time when I was barely passing English 101...

Bloody City
Poem by Kristin Roybal // Art by Wesley Vara
November 22, 2004
bloody city
sticky palms
woke up in the gutter

Stop Crying About Bush
Creating An Alternative to the Despair of the Next Four Years
Story by Adam Welch // Art by Wesley Vara
November 18, 2004
Only a few weeks after the elections, I've become overwhelmed with all the depressed reactions around me. At a bar friends would cry into their drinks in disbelief that supposedly Christian zealots from the Mid West had taken the country over.