They serve up irony too.

CampusFood, in an apparent effort to get hip with the kids, sent out a ridiculous 4/20 email.

It’s 4/20. Do you know where your munchies are?

To make sure you’re fully supplied tonight, we’re dealing out a $4.20 coupon starting at 4:20pm EST.

Enter coupon code at check out:

PSAFOUR20

Come on. Drugs are bad, m’kay? Speaking of which, look at the time!

Parody of something serious from CampusFood

Drugs went into the making of this image.

A little bit of sour news, Columbia. Threatening precipitation has forced the good people at Bacchanal to move their Dark Side of the Oz screening indoors.

Instead of once on the Low Steps, the movie will be screened twice, at 8 pm and 9 pm in the Lerner Cinema. Run time is about 45 minutes. According to a message from the Bacchanal people themselves, you can expect ridiculous amounts of fooood:

There will be munchies available outside of the cinema provided by FeelGood, NOM^3, 4local, CoreFoods, Green Umbrella, and more.

Come by early and enjoy gratuitous consumption before the film.

For the most up-to-date updates, check out the Facebook event.

Thanks and stay green,

Bacchanal

Stoolie from Wikimedia Commons

4/20, yo

Bwog’s Wednesday feature, Where Art Thou?, is here to keep you posted on what’s going on in the A&E department in Morningside Heights and beyond (basically all the cool events your friends are in/on/at). If you would like your club’s event, GYPSIES presents Park Deconstruction, posted on Bwog, now you can make it happen! E-mail us at events@bwog.com.

Wednesday

• Bacchanal 420 Movie Screening: The Dark Side of Oz, at 8 pm in Lerner Cinema. Free food! Free.
• Columbia Kingsmen Spring Concert, at 9 pm in Miller Theatre. A cappella. Free Food. Free.
  

Thursday

• NOMADS presents Park Beautification, at 8 pm in the Guastavino Room in the basement of St. Paul’s Chapel. Running through Saturday. A new play by Sylvia Khoury, CC ’12. Part of the Caravan Festival. Free.
• Las Meninas, at 8 pm in the Minor-Latham Playhouse in Milbank Hall. Running through Saturday. A Barnard College Theatre Department production. $5 with CUID, $10 without.

Friday

• Black Theatre Ensemble’s Spring Festival of One Act Plays, 7 pm in Lerner Black Box. Running through Saturday. Featuring student-written work. $4 CUID, $5 without.
• Art Luck, Potluck house’s annual raffle of student-made art. Proceeds go towards supporting a local community garden. Lots of free food. 8 pm, Potluck House, 606 W 114th St.
• Youth for Debate presents: A Night of Stand-up Comedy, 8:30 pm in Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall. Featuring Wayne Federman. $5 CUID, $7 without.
• QUATRO 2011 Spring Release Party and Reading, 8:30 pm in 501 Dodge Hall. Readings from the literary magazine and free food. Free.
• A Super Spring Concert!: CLEFHANGERS Co-ed A Cappella, 9 pm in Earl Hall auditorium. Free food. Free.

Saturday

• Postcrypt Arts Underground presents: FOLKFEST, from 4 to 9 pm in Wein Courtyard. Free food, free music. Free.
• Musical Mentors and CCP Present: A Fundraising Concert, from 6 to 8 pm in Lerner C555. Free food. $5 suggested donation.
• Nonsequitur’s Final Concert: I Just Had (non)Seqs, at 8 pm in Earl Hall. A cappella. Free.
• ONYX Presents: Cirque d’ Freak, Saturday at 8 pm in Lerner Party Space. $ 5 with or without CUID.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/utter-PR-fiction-but-people-love-this-shit-so-fuck-it-lets-just-print-it-2269573.html. Oops. (The Independent)

Foner, riding the Pulitzer tide, thinks leaders could learn a little from Abe Lincoln. (WSJ)

When it comes to dining, we could have it worse. Fordham and NYU dining halls both earned a “C,” the lowest grade possible. (NYT)

Wiffle ball wreaks havoc among small children and this “risky” summer camp behavior must be regulated, according to NY State health officials. Nothing is holy. (CBS)

British MPs fear their country is escalating its presence in Libya; PM David Cameron’s people say they’re not. (BBC)

And a merry 4/20 to you, sir or madam. (But not to you, sir.)

Иллюстрация в научной фантастике via Wikimedia Commons

Tonight at 8pm, Chewbacchanal presents a 3D screening of Coraline. The have a limited supply of 300 3D glasses, so Bwog suggests you arrive early, (or else make your own.)

Earth Co. and SEEJ will be there by 7pm selling baked goods and giving out some free things.Earth Co. has put together a short film which will be screened right before Coraline.

Bacchanal has also tipped us off that they may be giving away a limited number of pre-release Bacchanal t-shirts.

UPDATED (12:45): Order here by noon for a 9$ platter to be served next to tonight’s Chewbacchanal event.

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• Chicken and Rice is coming to College Walk this evening, courtesy of CU-GEAS. Order here by noon for a 9$ platter to be served next to tonight’s Chewbacchanal event.
• From 11am to 6pm, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Columbia Iranian Students Association are hosting a joint bake sale featuring brownies and Persian music, plus free hookah with any purchase.
• DG is also hosting a bake-sale on college walk until 5, featuring a variety of decorated baked goods, should any munchies remain.
• Next to their stand, LionPAC is handing out free cake in honor of Israel’s birthday
• Along Hamilton lawn in front of Wallach a long line of take out stands has a wide array of foods including vegetarian, asian and BBQ options, costing $5 for any three items.

Columbia professors have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the journalism, law, philosophy and geography categories.

Portable showers were provided for travelers stranded at JFK, desperate for hygiene. (Gothamist)

Doormen all over the city are poised to strike. (NYT)

Some scientists stake the claim that 3D movies are bad for you, and can cause nausea and headaches. (NYT)

Today is 4/20 (Spec)

Image via Wikipedia

Here’s a trippy opinion piece called “The Benefits of Smoking” that doesn’t contain a single word. [ed: Spec has, for some reason, removed this article in the last hour.]

Pete Seeger lived through the 60′s. That must have been so sick, man. Wait, why was he at Teacher’s College again?

No one will ever suspect you if your eyes are a little red today: “everyone knows” we don’t sleep anyway.

Facebook and religion. That’s what it’s all about, dude. It’s all this massive social construct. Like, the Facebook guy just wants us all to buy into this system of organized religion. We have to fight it; we have to fight back against Facebook. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Wait, I’m so hungry right now. Cheetos? 

If you are reading this, that means you aren’t on the steps (or, like Bwog, you are, but have wireless). And that means you’re missing Planet Earth.

Currently: “Jungles”. “Caves.” The administrators just announced, hazily, that they were playing the episode until 10 PM. If you just left, get back out here!

Tipster Rebecca Salley informs Bwog of the various (free) food activity on College Walk today:

1. The South East Asian League is sponsoring a free fried-rice and shaved-ice give-away. “There arent many people out there right now so I kind of felt like I was crashing a party, but it’s all up for grabs,” she explains.

2. A few paces away, there’s a sorority bakesale topically named “Not Your Tokin’ Bakesale.” Selling baked goods on College Walk on what happens to be both the most beautiful day of the year and 4/20? Well played, sorority. Well played.

UPDATE 9:02 PM: Jungles is ahead right now, with Shallow Seas and Deep Ocean tied for second!

Late breaking news about Bacchanal’s 4/20 screening of Planet Earth.

The mind-wrecking Discovery Channel miniseries is appearing in Low Plaza on a 14′ X 26′ screen, and you get to pick the two episodes being shown. To vote, just follow the link. But first, let Bwog tell you what to vote for.

Paul Barndt: Go for Deep Ocean, the only one of the episodes that seems to take place on another planet entirely. This is a place of strange, malformed creatures so far removed from the sun they’ve turned transparent. Maybe you’ll even see an ultra-squid. But what’s this about using the Sigourney-narrated American Planet Earth? Attenborough 4 lyfe, Bacchanal!

Michael Molina: I want to see epic battles and Great Plains has two of the four

great hunt sequences in the Planet Earth series. In

addition to the heartbreaking story of the caribou’s fall, the episode

also features the pains of a lion’s hunger that The Bronx Zoo or a JTT

sing-a-long cannot provide. This episode is a varied account of

ecosystems that delivers some of the best action sequences of the

series as well as fantastic sweeping visuals that instill a feeling

that mankind has not completely obliterated Planet Earth.

Bonus Dark Horse Candidate! The “subtle merits” of Shallow Seas had considerable underground support on the Bwog listserv.

Now get to it! Why vote for CCSC when you can choose between monster jellyfish and and killer cats?

 

A few issues of Spectator remain to be released, but Speccies celebrated the end of their year Tuesday night in considerable style. For the annual Spec Dinner, our campus broadsheet (whose facebook group, incidentally, has 175 more members than The Blue and White’s) rented out the private rooms of 420, a swanky bar on 80th and Amsterdam. Two open bars dispensed drinks to increasingly loopy journalists, who couldn’t even get through the platters of roasted peppers, pita and hummus, olives, and stuffed grape leaves—rumored to have cost the paper a cool $1,000.

You don’t get paid for pouring your heart and soul into Columbia’s paper of record. But getting royally feted twice a year makes it easier to justify the effort.