Look out, sea turtles: scores of purple balloons are dotting campus to advertise tonight’s Lunar Gala in Lerner. The airway-obstructing rubber orbs, scattered about like eggs from Alien, are inviting the curiosity of students, and those balloons that have not been popped (preferred method: a quick thrust of a mechanical pencil tip) bear the insignia of […]

Perhaps you’ve noticed the upsurge in would-be future Columbians on campus this past week; it’s been difficult not to, since they seem to outnumber pigeons (if only Hawkma could provide us so simple a solution).  Hordes of hopeful 2013s (and beyond!) are using their spring breaks to get acquainted with Alma, and Bwog has had reports […]

Bwog scavenger Eliza Shapiro spotted an interesting pair of discarded packets outside of John Jay last night: That makes three warning labels ignored. 

Good news for everyone feeling the dearth of sit-down Japanese:  Tomo, is set to defy death and open, as originally postulated, in Swish’s old spot at 2955 Broadway “in the next two weeks,” according to that lovably-unpronounceable foodie zeitgeist, the Zagat Survey. The phones of both Tomo and Swish rang on ad infinitum, so Bwog can’t […]

 Image courtesy of the Fed The latest issue of the Fed has found its way onto this, our World Wide Web. Everybody’s still infatuated with Obama, satirists included.  Following up on having found lust last issue, how to lose lust. One Fedster explains that love can be damaging. Another, that love can save your life. […]

The cast of the 115th Varsity Show entered to raucous applause from the crowd of 100 packed into the back room of the West End (as it will forever remain, at least for V-Show purposes). Our host for the evening was this year’s narrative patriarch, retiring Dean Austin Quigley, caught up in reading his own […]

 – Columbia University Athletics Looking better each weekend, the Columbia men’s basketball team won its third game in a row (and sixth in seven), holding off Brown 70-57. Junior guard Pat Foley scored a career-high 21 points, and freshman guard Noruwa Agho added 17 more, including 14 in the second half, to lead the team […]

 – W.M. Akers According to NYULocal: “The third floor of Kimmel has been cleared and no arrests made. None of the 13 demands of TBNYU! have been met and there were never any extensive meetings with the administration about meeting them.” Earlier today, our old NYU correspondent W.M. Akers, now with the Washington Square News, filed […]

   Image courtesy of BestDirect.tv A few days ago, Columbia was kindly informed about an outbreak of meningitis at our beloved weekend trip destination, UPenn. Well, the week has ambled onwards, and still the dirge of meningitis hums over us. Meanwhile, a graduate student at the UPenn petri dish has reportedly contracted measles and our […]

   Image courtesy of IMDB.com Watch The Kitchen Cabinet tonight take on Congress. The band, that is. It’s the closing night of E-Week, and four Colombian Columbian music groups will be fighting for campus supremacy in a heart-wrenching, fretboard-splintering “Battle of the Bands” competition in Roone Arledge. E-Week guests tonight may also stay for the […]

Bwog Print Devotee Chloe Eichler was in the audience when Joanna Coles, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire and straight-faced Tilda Swinton doppelganger, visited the Journalism School on Thursday to offer thoughts on her chosen medium. Despite calling print media “an absolutely terrible market to get into,” Coles was confident that newspapers and magazines would stay alive. […]

   Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art I sing of warfare and a man at war. Exiled by fate from the Eastern shore, He came to Israel by destiny. A fugitive, buffeted by land, sea, and fluid, Cruel funding losses were his lot in life, Till he could found a team and bring […]

 – Image via NYULocal.com Things are heating up 100+ blocks to the south, as the NYU student occupation moves into its second night. Major highlights of the day include the long negotiations over food (strangely, the university’s dining staff is feeding the protesters), the annoyance of many fellow students (to be expected when you demand […]

We at Bwog might not be able to get you into the Fashion Week after-parties or exclusive show-biz Oscar viewings, but we do have these suggestions for this awards-heavy weekend. Friday Sizzling South America Saturday 6:30-10:30pm, begins at Praxis International Gallery25 East 73rd Street, 4th Fl. (212-772-9478) This night out on the town begins with […]

The Eye website is still under construction, but you can access this week’s issue here. For this issue, stick with the arts articles. An article about vampires that doesn’t mention Vampire Weekend (Pg. 11) A defense of films that have already been deemed the year’s best (Pg. 12-13) Been wondering what an eight year-old thinks […]