Approaching its $4 Billion capital campaign goal, Columbia is raking in the dough (Spec). Learn to bike like a champ. The cycling master who taught Joseph Gordon-Levitt to barrel down Broadway demonstrates how to “be a fish in the coral.” (City Room). Obama hits the road. (NYTimes) Way back when on October 18th, the United […]

THE WEATHER! Special thanks to Franz Kogler, Chowdah, and CTV.

Bwog is meeting at 7 p.m. in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner Hall tonight. If the result would be a goodness-maximizing outcome for you and/or the whole of humanity, Mr. Mill would likely have you come. Also come if you like snacks. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

The International Pickle Festival Tenth Annual NYC International Pickle Day is going down RIGHT NOW in the parking lot on Broome Street (between Essex and Ludlow) on the LES. Bwog’s Senior Pickle Festival Analyst Conor Skelding is on the scene. Get down there before 4:30 to catch some pickling action for yourself! Update, 3:07 PM: […]

CCSC ’13 brought world-famous band Harry and the Potters to campus yesterday evening. Events also included a costume competition. A wonderful time was had by all. Final photo courtesy of Peter Sterne. All others by DH

Students for Sensible Drug Policy is holding a phone banking event to end marijuana prohibition in California in 501 Lerner with free pizza from Angelina’s (105th and Broadway). Apparently there’s some sort of competition between other SSDP groups nationwide to see who can make the most calls, with the winner taking home a banner. Bwog […]

Greenmarket rolls on today with its signature Fall freshness. Here’s a smidgen of what’s out there: Get out there early for the beautiful organic multicolored carrots at Monkshood Nursery. Challah bread and danishes made from the farm fresh eggs of Knoll Krest will be available. Milk Thistle has delicious fresh whole chickens. Image from Wikimedia […]

Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ has banned the alcoholic energy drink Four Loko. Let’s hope this disturbing trend stays in Jersey. Or not. (CBS New York) Princeton’s endowment posted a mere 14.7% gain last year, to Columbia’s 17%. (NYT) The New Museum’s latest exhibit contains a newspaper on the end of newspapers. (Capital NY) This […]

Black leather Michael Kors jacket. A description of the jacket and the night it was lost would be the best way for the owner to ID it.

A friendly reminder of last weekend: Picture by DH

Bwog likes to come in your room, look around, and talk to you (in a not creepy way!). If you would like your room to be hopped, email us at tips@bwog.com. Michelle Ong reports: Walking into Arinn Amer’s EC single fills me with despair: her room isn’t just an expression of her individuality—it’s practically a metonymic […]

The neighborhood seems to be getting a face-lift this week. Perhaps you did not notice? Bwog did! The Starbucks espresso machine that had broken down, causing considerable distress, has now been repaired. Hartley lounge is is getting new windows. Everything is covered in plastic and the doors have been locked for days… The main entrance […]

Around noon today, about 300 skateboarders wildly dashed from Riverside and 116th Street down Broadway, screaming and merrymaking. ‘Twas the beginning of the Broadway Bomb 2010, the world’s most dangerous longboard skateboard race. Photo by MJM

Riverside Church is collecting food on 110th Street. Give if you can! Image via Wikimedia Commons

Saturday morning midterm ritual: wake up, brush teeth, stretch, walk down the hall back to 209 to continue studying, procrastinate by checking Saturday Morning Cartoons, feel meta. Cartoons by Abigail Santner