Freeze Magazine, Harvard’s answer to Seventeen and YM, is prepping a second issue, to be released at the beginning of September. The first issue of Freeze was by all counts a triumph, and according to founder, Editor-in-Chief Thea Sebastian ’08, the follow-up’s going to be even better…

Scene, meanwhile, Freeze’s club-going older sister, is set to send another tremor of upper-glass guilt across campus in mid-May with the release of their second issue. According to editors Emily Washkowitz ’08 and Rebecca A. Kaden ’08, Scene 2’s going to be just like Scene 1, but better. Expect photo shoots, undergrad fashion designers, and senior profiles. Also see Scene’s “Style” blog on CampusTap.com, but keep your pants on for the magazine’s website (www.sceneonline.org), which has been coming soon since fall...

Kinda-sorta controversial campus sex magazine H BOMB may go online-only with the release of its third issue at the end of this semester, according to founder Kasia Cieplak-von Baldegg ’06. As it stands, there will still be a print edition, but “the big push” right now is going toward a revved-up new website, complete with blogs, merch, and web-only content. According to Cieplak-von Baldegg, readers can expect a photo shoot of boys streaking in the Quad and an “adorable” spread themed around women in science...

Look out this Monday or Tuesday for the release of Cinematic 4, featuring five articles on David Lynch (cover shot captured from Blue Velvet!) and reviews of Motorball, Crash, etc. All 56 pages of the proof are in, despite early rumors that the magazine was dead in the water…

Speaking of resurrection, be sure to find a copy of Remix Magazine, published last month by the Black Men’s Forum and Harvard Media Ventures. Remix came from the ashes of something much less impressive looking, and with their next issue, due out in April, Managing Editor Tracy “Ty” Moore ’06 says the magazine will change its name to RMX and get distribution across 25 college campuses nationwide…

Makes sense, since big numbers are what Harvard’s all about: Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 will see the publication of her debut novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” on April 1. Movie rights have been sold to DreamWorks, making the $500,000 advance Viswanathan got for the book sound like little knuckles...
Speaking of which, the new issue of The Harvard Lampoon, edited by Farley T. Katz ’06 and former Lampoon president Simon H. Rich ’06-’07, should be out today or tomorrow...

In other Lampoon-related news, former staff writer Nick B. Sylvester ’04 was suspended from a top editorial position at the Village Voice and removed from the Pitchfork Media masthead for fabricating part of a Voice cover story about dating in New York; gossip site Gawker.com reports that most of Sylvester’s quotes/anecdotes were attributed to former Lampoon members...

As for the other Harvard humor mags, watch out for Satire V this week and Swift the Friday after Spring Break...

On a more somber note, the next issue of the Harvard Book Review will be called “The Art of Losing.” The issue will be “themed around grief,” according to editor Joshua H. Billings ’06, and will feature a series of articles on 9/11 novels, reviews of “grief-related books,” and letters from the editors addressed to dead authors. Billings says it’ll probably be out shortly after spring break...

The same thing goes for the Harvard Political Review, which was sent to the presses earlier this week. According to newly inducted Editor-in-Chief Josh Patashnik ’07, the issue is focused on questions of censorship (articles re: Google in China, Danish cartoons). Patashnik will face managing editor Daniel Krauthammer ’07 in a new back-of-the-book point/counterpoint feature. Expect a new website soon, too...

A few weeks after the "censorship" HPR, watch out for a new issue of Diversity and Distinction, which will feature an article on eating disorders and ethnicity and a piece on the recent book “Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers—And How You Can Too”…

By the by, the new issue of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review, to be published later this semester, will be “themed around governance,” according to Editor-in-Chief Kevin Koo ’07—expect a doordrop in mid-May...

Around the same time we’ll see the second edition of new photojournal Grey Area, the Contest Issue of the Advocate, and the education issue of Christian magazine The Ichthus…

Finally: Doordropped sadly reports that we were unable to reach anyone at Current Magazine, the Newsweek-affiliated, Harvard-run magazine for “real” students. Good thing Scene is around to pick up the slack.

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