Spotted by Chief of Ruggles Snuggles Andrew Kisch

Bwog received numerous tips today that a film crew from ABC7 was around campus getting footage and conducting interviews about the recent attempted robberies of iPhones. No footage has been posted to the local affiliate’s website yet, but we’re hoping that when it does, we can get sandwich man‘s take on all this.

Update, 3:00 am: The segment is now online. Check it out below:

He’s an important guy. Here are some things you should know about him: he founded the New York Post; he went to college here, but did not graduate; he is Michael Cera. If you want to learn even more, a biopic on Alexander Hamilton airs tonight at 10 pm on Channel 13. According to the blurb, the documentary is about “money, rights, news, battle, sex and honor,” so basically all the things Bwog stands for. Therefore, if you’re reading this post, you should watch this program:

Watch the full episode. See more Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton.

Bwog’s beloved weatherman Pat Blute was on design guru Nate Berkus’ show yesterday! What can’t he do?

Updated with comment from Pat: “The reason I was on the show was because I was the STA Travel World Traveler Intern for 2008 – so the episode featured items I bought while on that trip around the world in 81 days. Nate had a lot of great design tips and it was awesome to chat with him on his show. If anyone wants to see his design advice in action, stop by Ruggles.”

Eric Foner, Most Famous Professor of All Time and CC ’63, stopped by the Colbert Report last night to talk textbooks and Texas. Mr. Colbert was discussing a recent Texas Schoolboard vote approving a “conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks.”

Who better to comment than the author of your AP US History textbook: Sir Foner himself! Foner sat for a brief interview with Colbert and spoke about what it means to alter history. He wore a blue tie, and Bwog wants just go to his office hours and talk about everything. Watch the clip! Foner comes in at about three minutes in.

Quick, if you head over to Broadway outside of Ricky’s right now, you’ll not only find our favorite Wafels and Dinges truck, but you may even get onto a Food Network show! Shooting a pilot for a new “Street Eats” show, they’re profiling the man behind the truck right here outside campus. You can even sign a release form!

After scribbling the final sentences in your Blue Book today, if you’re too tired for a night on the town, Bwog has a couple of post-midterm couch potato recommendations.

Jim Cramer, who made a slight error in a prediction about Bear Sterns last year, has been in a cable TV cat fight with the Daily Show. After many potshots back and forth, Cramer is appearing tonight on the Daily Show, which will make for good viewing.

Also, at 7:30 in Lerner, there is a free advance screening of Adventureland, which is, essentially, Superbad set in the eighties. Pick up tickets at the CU Arts desk. The film’s producer Anne Carey will be on hand for a Q&A after the film, since everyone will have probing questions about all the dick jokes.

-DJB

Bwog Rectangular Object Specialist Anish Bramhandkar made a shocking discovery earlier today: the TV in the Empti Lounge has disappeared.

The nefarious TV bandit left the cords dangling, remarkably similar to the hasty dismantlement of Empti’s former froyo titan. Perhaps this thief is also responsible for the rushed disappearance of Columbia’s endowment. 

UPDATE (4:56 PM): Housing and Dining emails Bwog to say that “actually, the TV was not stolen, but we removed it because the screen was cracked. We are working to get a replacement television in there as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

-Photo via the Harlem Eye

After a student protest and subsequent squabbling, the NY1 channel ran its story on the fate of Floridita restaurant, a locally-owned business that the Manhattanville expansion may displace.

Both current CC student Andrew Lyubarsky and CU public affairs, who have been battling over the story for the past couple of weeks, made an appearance in the piece.

Lyubarsky is demanding that Columbia either respect Floridita’s lease or promise to forge a relocation deal that is approved by the restaurant’s owner. CU public affairs claimed now is too early to start negotiating.

-DJB 

Bwog editor Anish Bramhandkar notes that Union Theological Seminary is hosting one of TV’s most popular sex crime shows: “There’s a food van/cart there with a sign saying something about serving food to film productions on location, and a bunch of people eating food.  A few of them have nametags that say Law & Order SVU.”

UTS seems very popular with NBC these days — last week, the new NBC show Kings was shooting there. But hey, the main campus will always have Peter Parker.

Bwog’s Internet-based television critic Rob Trump returns with another installment of Know Your Web Series. This week: Drunk History.

There are certain things that are perennially hilarious, but by their nature are difficult to focus on for the purposes of fictional comedy.  A prime example: drunk people incoherently telling stories are extremely funny, but drunk stories are inclined to be personally focused, insular, anecdotal, and difficult to make humorous to a wide audience.  Often, the most brilliant comic minds are the ones who figure out how to penetrate that bubble and make something funny in real life funny in fiction as well.

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Teachers College to save the Dominican Republic.

It’s an art house with an uncertain future.

Do you remember CPR from your sixth-grade babysitting course?

Turn off your TV for two minutes today — thankfully Gossip Girl airs Mondays.

Spec’s rainy day political laundry list.

It’s TV on the Internet! Brought to you by Web-only television critic Rob Trump. This week: Toyboize.

Whether you prefer the British Office or the American version–and I think a case can be made for either–you have to concede one point to the Americans: they’re much better at keeping their actors employed.  While Jenna Fischer can bounce back from a dud like The Promotion into a full-time job on a hit show, the same can’t be said for, say, her British counterpart Lucy Davis, whose post-Office resume runs the gamut from the aggressively mediocre (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) to the downright embarrassing (Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, Sex Lives of the Potato Men–and no, I am not making that up).

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Maven reporter Lydia DePillis contacted Bwog just moments ago with this alarming and amazing tip:  “Chicken and rice stand on 116th–with a tv!”  Any guesses on what the Chef is watching? Josh Brolin on SNL tonight, must-see-TV perhaps? 

Columbia professor/economics all-star Joseph Stiglitz was on the Colbert Report last night. “You’re not my first Nobel Laureate,” Colbert informed him. Topics discussed included fellow Nobel-ers Paul Krugman and Al Gore, and the possible existence of “Nobel groupies.” Of course, the bulk of the conversation revolved around the economy, and why yesterday’s Dow points gain isn’t the end of any crisis. Colbert asks if Iraq is the answer, Stiglitz says it’s part of the problem.

Your guide to what’s worth watching on the Internet returns and TV critic Rob Trump comes bearing good news for fans of Neil Patrick Harris and Joss Whedon alike.

I feel like I’ve started the last three or four of these with some variant on “Well, I’m not sure that this really belongs in the category ‘web series,’ but…” Add another to that category, because Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is perhaps too short — it’s exactly three episodes, or “acts” — and perhaps too professional — it’s directed by Joss Whedon, he of Firefly and Buffy fame, and on an actual budget — to be comparable to most of the other shows I’ve reviewed.  But it debuted on the Internet, and that’s enough for me.  Dr. Horrible is a web series, and it’s an absolutely great one.

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