Our porcine problem persists as experts question the vaccine’s use (NY1).

Evangelists may have vanquished Route 66, but Atheists are now converting subway riders (Gothamist).

With Manhattanville secured, Columbia plots to conquer Europe and South Asia (Spec).

The rich and famous enter Purgatorio without Virgil’s help (Gawker). 

Teachers College descends from the ivory tower (Spec).

In the Bronx, capitalists capture the castle (HuffPost).

Looking for some student theater in your life? Bwog reviews the latest production from the CU Players.

Having had only a month to put the production together, the CU Players (or “CUPS,” better-known for the plastic cups handed out during the activities fair) did a more-than-credible job of mixing the Bronx with the Bible Thursday night.

It was tentative and cliched in the beginning, complete with the awkward hand gestures of nervous actors.  However as the performance went on and the audience warmed to the cast, the characters quickly fleshed out and captivated the viewer.
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It’s the beginning of the semester and lines are out of control at the Barnes & Noble and, occasionally, at Book Culture, where the line has snaked up the stairs (or alternately, has been non-existent, like every time Bwog goes there to take a photograph of the line).  For a shorter trip to the bookstore, don’t head over right after a class lets out.

Or, just skip the whole headache and head to Butler, which is nice and empty this time of year.  One tipster did and saved $600 on textbooks, sadly reminding Bwog of (Good) Will Hunting’s dressing-down of a Harvard snot: “you wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.”