InBerkeley

OK so Berkeley is not exactly chic on the street. Love it though we may, we do not usually think to turn to the city’s thoroughfares and gathering spots for sartorial inspiration.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t stylish people out there. You just have to know where to look, and the Cal campus is – perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not — a good place to start

A group of undergraduates recently launched a fashion magazine and a blog to explore “fashion as more than just cloth on a body”. It’s called Bare (Bear/Bare, get it?) and the students “aim to represent creativity and inspiration, ingenuity, and passion. Passion for art, passion for the aesthetic, and passion for one’s own tastes, biases, and self-expression.”

The blog might dissect the look of a student who is photographed on campus, suggest ways to put together an outfit, or report on the retro fashions on TV series True Blood.

So far it’s all lookin’ good. Check out Bare’s website here.

Blogs, Fashion, UC Berkeley

Cynthia Gorney captures the dilemma of being a journalist embedded on campus in the midst of the UC walkout today in a post for Oakland North:

As journalists who are also UC students and teachers, we wrestled with the appropriate reaction to today’s events. Some wanted to join the walkout. Some did not.  As our publication is supported by UC Berkeley, along with a grant from the Ford Foundation, we all agreed that it would be odd for our site to pretend nothing unusual is underway today at the campus that plays such a major role in East Bay life–but that we have a direct conflict of interest in trying to report on the walkout in any conventional way.

It looks like there will be updates throughout the day on the hyperlocal site, which is run by students and teachers at Berkeley’s Journalism School. So worth checking back in.

Blogs, Hyperlocal, UC Berkeley

Jennifer English used to write the wonderful Walking Berkeley. The blog reached its natural conclusion when English completed the mission she had set out to achieve: walk every street in the city chronicling her experiences in words and photos along the way.

The good news is that English has launched a new blog. Car-Free Outdoors focuses on car-free outdoor adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area. English says she will start with hikes and hopes to add camping/backpacking and cycling trips in future.

Her inaugural post is on a Marin Headlands and Sausalito stairways hike (above). English — who is also on Twitter at @carfreeoutdoors — says she hopes to update weekly with new content, but the schedule will vary, “depending on work and other commitments” (ah yes, we know all about those).

[Photo: carfreeoutdoors.wordpress.com]

Blogs, Hyperlocal, Nature Bay Area blogs, Berkeley bloggers