Diana Clarke reports! Bobbe Bwog kvells! The second floor of Columbia/Barnard Hillel is more used to the sounds of Hebrew, but on Sunday night a collection of Yiddish speakers gathered at Café Nana for the first ever Columbia/Barnard Yiddish Club’s Tish. (Tish literally means “table,” but think “chat,” or “schmooze” if you’ ve ever seen […]
A few weeks ago, the Columbia Kingsmen, an all-male acapella group, posted provocative flyers around campus to publicize their concert. One flyer pictured a member of the group with the caption, “Rape Me.” Last night, LUCHA, a Columbia social activist organization, sent Bwog their public statement in response to the advertisement. Soon after, Lauren Herold, […]
Bwog has jammed with the JJ’s Place guys, shaked to Shakira with Dean Peña-Mora, and sung a Sesame song with Dean Denburg. Last year, Gareth Williams, Chair of Literature Humanities, helped us cram creatively with a study guide playlist. Below, fellow Lit Hum legend Christia Mercer kindly shared what’s in heavy rotation on her Ipod: Bob […]
Phone conversation in Lerner: “….and we should’ve known when we walked in and the people were there without pants…” Missed Connection?!
Hawkma is eating a pigeon outside Hamilton. And all is right with the world.
One of the greatest perks of an Ivy League education is having all sorts of guest lecturers and talks hosted right on campus. Yet many of these great talks are not publicized enough. Enter Bucket List, a weekly feature that aggregates these events in a single location that will hopefully make you realize, like Bwog […]
Burger Battle! Five Guys Burgers and Fries is opening nearby Mel’s. According to Zagat, Five Guys bested In-and-Out for favorite fast food. Decisions, Decisions… (CityBiz) Pop-country princess Taylor Swift drops her new confessional album today. Team Tay Tay! (MTV) Yesterday, the Times devoted its Metropolitan section to the Subway system: pictures, poodles and profiling. Apparently […]
It’s time to take midterms. The weather knows that. Thanks to Pauline Baudon for filming.
Hey you! Out there in the audience, Come on down, you’re the next contestant on The Price is Right! But seriously, take a break from studying and come on down to tonight’s Bwog meeting! There will be fabulous prizes like free food. All the fun happens at 7 PM in the SGO on Lerner 5. […]
Little kid with parents on College Walk: “I don’t like the Lions because they lost today… Have they ever won?”
Four Loko has inspired more than a few artists in the past, but now one of Columbia’s own has paid homage the ban-inducing alcoholic energy drink. A tipster spotted this hand-crafted door decoration in John Jay. In other freshperson debauchery news, Natty Light and someone’s jeggings were left just outside Carman during a particularly exciting celebration […]
Inspired in part by Meatless Mondays, the folks over at NOM^3 have started a lunch subscription program called NOMdays. Now you can pay in advance for a tasty meal to be picked up on the Lerner ramps at lunchtime Monday. While pretty snazzy, this program is not the end of bold new projects for NOM^3—they still […]
Proving that our generation has plenty of entrepreneurial spirit, a pair of Georgetown students was found with all the makings of DMT in a freshman dorm. (WaPo) International man of mystery and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made another huge document release, this time pertaining to US involvement in Iraq. (NYT) The British government is […]
Bwog’s weekly round-up of neighborhood news sees many odd occurrences. Please continue to help keep us as well-informed as possible by tipping your boringest to tips@bwog.com. Hewitt has new, larger, and more sophisticated-ly round mugs, (more mug drama here). At Panino Sportivo, the 38th person to order a sandwich gets it for free. These correspond […]
A teenage boy to his mother, incredulously: “What is this place? Like, what do they even do here?” Two parents pulling matching suitcases out of Carman to two people in white Dining Services chef uniforms: “I just have to tell you, the food here is fantastic! I know you’re pulling out all the stops for […]
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