The Hindu Student Organization/Ahimsa’s Diwali Celebration is sold out, but enter your name on the waitlist and you’ll still have a chance of free food come 8:00. Also, Bwogger Anish Bramhandkar hears from inside sources that eventually doors will be opened to everyone. If ye be patient, be fed! Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Mark Hay, Bwog’s Master of the Millennium Village, makes a man want to speak Spanish. No Columbia celebrity packs a room quite like Jeffrey Sachs. Invited by the young student group Delta GDP to speak on his already notorious views on development programs in impoverished nations, this brief and cursory event filled a rather uncomfortable […]

B&W editor and Bwog tipster Mariela Quintana poses a question that even we can’t answer: Who took the baby that the stork dropped off in front of Tomo?

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Lerner West Ramp Lounge Contact email: info@hootmag.org For only $3, you can bring in any clean clothes and accessories to trade, enjoy a variety of finger foods, and be automatically entered to win a multitude of stylish raffle prizes! For every piece of clothing or accessory that you bring in, you are allowed to swap […]

Hannah Goldstein, the “Madonna of Bollywood Dance Journalism,” reports: In keeping with its exhibitionist tendencies, Dhoom, Columbia’s Bollywood-fusion dance team, opened up rehearsal last night to its hordes of devotees; before an audience of friends, team alums, and general dance lovers, the sixteen-member group rehearsed its official 2009-2010 competition number, which is to be performed […]

Gates & Buffett come to Lerner to assure us that the worst is over. (Spec) Afraid of the Internet? Don’t worry. Everything’s gonna be ok. Upper-Westsiders get an Apple Store to call their own; Jobs junkies wait outside all night.(Gothamist) New license plate design is really a calculated nostalgia-evoking strategy, according to its designers. Not […]

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The moment of truth has finally arrived for New York City: the anticipated H1N1 flu vaccine has officially become more selective than the average community college. In an effort to keep our readers healthy (even if they do happen to be non-pregnant, 24-year-old-or-older baby haters), Bwog presents the latest Health Services update detailing who exactly is […]

Riyadh Bureau Chief David Hu grabbed a seat in a surprisingly comfortable Mudd Room to hear from APAM Professor David Keyes about his sabbatical in Saudi Arabia. The atmosphere in Applied Physics and Mathematics Professor David Keyes’s talk did not feel like that of a traditional lecture or formal presentation. There was free pizza, drinks, […]

To see if he could still feel (and to check out the neighborhood north of 120th Street), Emotional Correspondent Dan Flicker took a walk last night to see Columbia Stages’ production of Phoenician Women.  Here is his story. The Phoenician Women prance into their namesake play as a colorful, if occasionally irritating bunch. Giggling and […]

If you don’t know where “The Grove” is, you’re not alone: the green space was built over decades ago.  Let’s hope Pupin has a time machine next to that cyclotron. UPDATE: A commenter says the new Grove is “what CUPS calls the area under havemeyer, dodge fitness, pupin, etc. Its full of trash. Not very […]

Feeling emotionally burdened, Bwog’s Catharsis Bureau Chief, Claire Sabel, sought release last night in CU Players’ production of Sophokles’ Elektra.  And according to her review, the trip was more than worthwhile. It is one thing to read the great works of Greek drama in Lit Hum, and quite another to bring them to life on stage – […]

Today, as many are so acutely aware, is Friday the 13th – a day often associated with bad luck. We at Bwog would like to quell your superstitions by showing you that, in fact, humanity may just be luckier today than ever before!  Take a look at these inspiring goings-on about our most fortunate of […]

Go underground, go wild, just go out.  It’s your Guide to the Weekend. Friday Hip Hop Karaoke Brooklyn Regional Championship 9 pm, Southpaw, 125 5th Avenue between St. John’s and Sterling Place, Park Slope $10 Girls and Boys: The Cool Kids – electronic dance music night, with a live set by retro rappers The Cool […]