The deets:
When: this Friday at 9 p.m.
Where: Henry’s (2600 Durant Avenue)
R.S.V.P.: info@baremagazine.org

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BARE magazine i5 launch party on Friday! [BARE]
Earlier: BARE Mag Gets New York Times Mention

BARE, UC Berkeley’s fashion magazine, got a small mention in a recent New York Times article about cheap glossy printing. Kudos for cross-coast recognition, but what’s even cooler is the photo slideshow that accompanies the article.

The slideshow has some behind-the-scenes shots of BARE and also features editor Doreen Bloch speaking about putting together the magazine. Um, we can haz NYT feechur too?

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Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick [NYT]
Making a Magazine With MagCloud [NYT]

We’ll be prepared for anonymous comments from either party’s minions, illegal and rampant chalkings, and the incessant pesterings of ASUC hopefuls around Sather Gate.

Even fashion mag BARE is jumping into the student politics under the flimsy pretense that “voting is always in vogue.” Sure, if you think people holding giant signs with names of hopeful senators is haute couture.

Stay tuned tomorrow for a list of campaign kickoffs so that you can score free food from the candidates who will be bugging you after spring break.

We came across the chalked advert for Chiq’s first meeting only because of its tagline: “UCB’s 1st Health, beauty + lifestyle magazine” (sic). Not exactly fashion, but we know BARE covers beauty too.

But that’s not our gripe. The proof is in the spelling. “Chiq,” with a q? Does that mean it’s pronounced “chic” or “chick”? Or is it supposed to be a confusing amalgamation of both? In case, we’re pretty sure that anyone who would honestly refer to herself as a “chick” is surely not chic.

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Chiq Magazine [Website]

* While you were out drunk at 12:30 p.m. yesterday, fashionistas were totally judging your look. [BARE]

* If you weren’t among the thousands at Memorial Stadium or in the rabble of Tightwad Hill, you can catch up on Cal Band’s halftime show. Oh, nostalgia. [YouTube]

* Help the little bear out. This looks like a future Clog photo. [Photo Blog]

* Scared for finals? Maybe you should’ve just gone elsewhere and paid for your A’s. [Paper Trail]

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Earlier: The Same Old, Same Old

Just kidding, dudes. We love Cal and so can you, if only because Lothlorien’s legendary food orgy par-tay ranked up there with that one school’s annual spit-swapping bonanza and UC Santa Cruz’s furious attempts at ingesting enough weed to envelop a small hillside in pot fumes.

Radar’s thundering denunciation of the worst college in America follows under the jump.

The grand prize goes to the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, which gets docked a gazillion brownie points for being nestled on “a husk of yellowing grass in the middle of a blighted urban war zone”. This, in a city where the violent crime rate is 60 percent above the national average. Did we mention the shady administration and the repressive, ghetto atmosphere? Plus, frolicking at the beach front makes people puke.

Other winners come in categories like Most Superficial, Ugliest Campus, Most Stoned Student Body, Most Overrated, and Most Closeted. The U.S. Naval Academy scores second in that last category. Three guesses as to which one USC wins and the first two don’t count.

Notable features, handily listed for you here, follow:

• a ranking of the dumbest college courses
• the worst named schools
• a gallery of humiliating mascots (note the strategic linking).

And — this last one’s precious — America’s worst college professor. Ever.

Meet Michael Todd, professor of abnormal psychology at Arizona’s Paradise Valley Community College.

The 51-year-old had a history of trysts with undergraduates—before one of his female students overdosed on cocaine at his house.

The 19-year-old had reportedly consumed as many as 17 beers while Todd was there. Professor Todd refused to identify his comatose student to the paramedics who took her to the hospital, where she died.

Edit: The Clog’s just uncovered the true blue identity of the party feature’s writer, Connie Wang, who just so happens to be a Berkeley student herself. Connie was a prominent fixture at Cal’s very own Bare Magazine, whose launch party we attended just two weeks ago.  Dude, that’s so cosmic.

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Our annual semiscientific guide to the worst colleges in America [Radar Magazine]

There, we were warmly greeted by BARE Magazine’s founder and editor-in-chief, Doreen Bloch, who ushered us into the private party room, where we were warmly greeted by gourmet pizza, salad, dessert and these truly addictive fried olives. Seriously, we’re not even just saying the food was good because it was free. It really was tasty. Though–to be fair–it was also free.

Anyway, the evening passed pleasantly. Photos were taken. The new issue of BARE was ogled. Fashionably dressed people schmoozed and networked. We commiserated with our fellow student publishers from Squelch (Ohmigod, Squelch!) and the BARE blog.

We talked to Ms. Bloch about how she got her brainchild off the ground as a mere freshman, and how she somehow managed to convince downtown Bar and Restaurant to advertise in the magazine and throw her and about 50 other people a very classy party. (One word: Haas.) We were impressed.

Then, tragedy struck, swiftly, like a burglar in the night. First, a routine trip to the restroom went horribly awry when one extremely inept clogger smashed her finger a stall door crack. (Please, don’t ask. It really hurt.) Then, as the Clog was still licking its ladies’ room-inflicted wounds, a certain other clogger lost the raffle–did we mention the raffles?–for a week’s worth of garlic rolls from Tomatina, despite having something like a one-in-three chance at winning. Ah, ’twas a cruel trick of fate, indeed.

The night ended on a high note, though, as we overcame adversity and departed, copies of the latest issue of BARE in hand.

Oh, and the magazine itself? A little heavy-handed with the issue’s fashion in politics theme, but pretty polished, nonetheless, given the small staff entirely comprised of students. So, definite props to Doreen Bloch and the rest of the BARE crew. Putting together a whole fashion mag sounds like a shit-ton of work, if you ask us. You can find out where to get your copy of BARE Magazine’s latest issue here.

Image Source: Nathan Yan, Courtesy of BARE Magazine, Jill Cowan
BARE Magazine [Blog]

Sometimes it pays to be a blogger, like when you get invited to parties you didn’t even know were happening. BARE magazine, UC Berkeley’s fashion publication, will host a VIP launch party this Thursday at 8 p.m. at Downtown Bar and Restaurant.

Later this week, one of our bloggers will grace the event, but in the meantime you can think of ways of impersonating us and crashing the party. Expect a wrap-up around the weekend.

BARE also has a quasi-Sartorialistic blog (shows you what we know of Berkeley blogs). We’re not sure we dig the what-I-wore-to-work-today posts, but we’re looking forward to pics of chic students–if BARE can find ‘em.

BARE Magazine Blog [Web Site]

In any case, the retrospective slideshow is pretty cool if you can’t be troubled to go all the way to the exhibit, despite that the 2008 portion is somewhat less than comprehensive. Yep, unfortunately, that means no photos of masked men wearing red sweatpants.

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BARE Magazine [Website]
Cal Style 2008: A Fashion Safari to Sproul Plaza [Berkeley News Center]
Earlier: Library Goes Retro With Berkeley Fashions