Bwog’s theatrical afternoon continues with Tony Gong’s review of the Classics Department’s production of Antigone.  Last night, I journeyed into Columbia classics undergraduates’ first performance of Antigone at the Minor Latham Playhouse in Milbank, buried deep within the Barnard’s campus. The mystical and labyrinthine trek was well-worth it—partly due to the unique theater experience that […]

Take advantage of student theater! The final performance of Harold Pinter’s Moonlight is tonight at 8 o’clock in the Lerner Black Box. Go and be literary! Harold Pinter’s Moonlight is in no way the typical drama performed by eager undergraduates and Sarah Wansely’s choice to take on this work reflects a certain courage and confidence […]

If one was passing through campus early this evening, one might have seen a crowd of over a hundred people gathered in a circle on the Low steps. It’s even more likely though, that one might have simply heard the crowd, as the music was loud enough to turn heads on the other side of […]

This week on Cooking with Bwog we bring you solutions for dealing with those times when nothing in your fridge works with anything else. Questions or concerns? Send them to bwog@columbia.edu. 1. If it’s vegetable, it will probably go with other vegetables. Last week Bwog made dinner by cooking every veggie Bwog had in the […]

In case you haven’t noticed,Columbia’s favorite red-tail has his (or her?) own Hawkmadinebwog! To show our affection, Bwog staffers have been writing haikus in honor of the best individual of Order Falconiformes. Ours are pretty good (see below) but we think you, dear readers and hawk fans, can do better. And since one of H-dad’s […]

Allison Halff, Bwog’s Argentina correspondent, was kind enough — through the magic of El Internet — to give us Wien sufferers a quick lecture on the wonders of Watt. When my roommate and I got an exceptionally good lottery number at the end of freshman year, the first dorm we toured was Watt. After walking […]

Live from the State of the Planet conference, an anonymous tipster with photography skills leads us to believe that the event may be… less than scintillating.   Jeff Sachs reads the news and checks his email, after the jump. Slacking off on laptops during lectures — professors: they’re just like us!

Columbia loses sight of its friendship with Floridita, suddenly demands $128,000. The university then promptly forgets to make sure people can use its housing lottery software. Drunkenly sketching on a bar napkin, Columbia proposes a seven block long, seven-story underground fortress, and tells Nick Sprayregen to, quote, “shut up.” It then appears to call Barnard […]

We’re one day in to Michelle Diamond’s CCSC’s big off-campus flex adventure, and cold reality is beginning to set in. Bwog’s deep and meticulous investigation of anecdotes solicited from fellow Bwoggers shows that CUID transactions are drawn-out processes that challenge the patience of the already rather impatient cashiers at local eateries. Justin Vlasits reports that […]

Bwog once again guides you to the weekend with a slew of events to choose from, including some great ongoing events. Disclaimer: any events sold out were indeed not sold out at the time of compilation. Also, these will be up earlier next week — we apologize in the meantime.   TONIGHT The Secret Society […]

Bwog was especially delighted to stumble upon this week’s New Yorker. Not only does one Talk of the Town article discuss the decision to dismantle Columbia’s Cyclotron—which, we learned, was actually gutted in 1965 and mostly shipped off to the Smithsonian in bits and pieces—the author of the piece is Kate Linthicum, BC ’08 and […]

Under the sterling aegis of Jeffrey Sachs, we can make this the bestest world ever!! A letter from the editor about the poorest, richest girls The meta-est Eyepoke ever, in which a campus blog links to a campus magazine article about a campus magazine The best-written review of the worst book ever The tastiest-sounding review […]

Ah, the change of the seasons! A dash of color on a landscape of concrete and leafless brittle trees! An opportunity for no snark at all. Enjoy this, the habitual replanting of the flowers, with us. Photo by Zach van Schouwen

Tipster Rick Betita noticed that Barack Obama is in New York City today, delivering a speech about the  economy at—where else?—Cooper Union. Obama was introduced to the crowd by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In the speech, Obama explained his rationale for visiting Cooper Union: “In a city of landmarks, we meet at Cooper […]

For people to learn the name of the chancellor of the largest school system in the country For ’68 fever to wear off. Well, maybe the first event of the season is a little early for that. For the end of journalism For the epic flooding of Manhattan For all of the above to seep […]