Turkey trendsetter Alison Herman defends the anti-holiday: sticking around Columbia over Thanksgiving. Thursday morning, I’ll be taking the Metro North train out to Westport, Connecticut for my Thanksgiving meal. Thursday evening, I’ll be taking the train back into the city and spending the rest of my holiday break the way I have for the past […]

Enjoy some free food via Columbia Rotaract today, and that means free Starbucks, Insomnia Cookies, and Chipotle with good purpose. Lerner Ramps from 11AM to 5PM, Rotaract will be holding an event called Giving Thanks 2013, in which students will be able to write ‘thank you cards’ to any staff member they want. There will be TONS of free food – […]

Your RSVP to the Thanksgiving dinner being held by the Office of International Student Programs and Services is due today by 2:00pm, and you can submit that short form here. Dinner is open to all CC and SEAS undergraduate students, international and domestic. Join for a delicious meal shared with other students who will be around […]

Instead of Columbia Greenmarket’s typical Thursday event this week, the Greenmarket is open today! Start your conscientious Thanksgiving grocery shopping now. If you are planning a locally sourced meal we have got you covered! You can avoid those long lines at the grocery store and get pretty much everything from you need right here at […]

James Franco and Seth Rogen’s relationship is just as on point as Kim and Kanye’s. Uh huh, honey. (Buzzfeed) Go, Book Culture! If any Columbia University area bookstore were going to make the list as one of New York City’s best bookstores, we knew it would be you. (Gothamist) Lockdown on Monday at Yale after the school […]

Rejoice, merry Columbians: ESC has brought wireless internet to the Law School. This comes in response to an article in the Spectator from October about the issue. In summary, the Spec reported that because the Diamond Law Library was not technically part of the University library system as a whole, and instead was under the jurisdiction of […]

And what a weekend it was. Before you run off for Thanksgiving, let’s give thanks to all the people who provided entertainment this weekend, in our weekly field notes. A toast to the Class of 2014 Bwog walked into Pourhouse (ugh) for the final Senior Night of the semester at 12:15 am Wednesday night with […]

While the squirrel has long been Bwog’s rodent of choice, recent events have placed his smaller, cuter cousin in the Bwoggy spotlight. Senior Staff Writer and Art Spiegelman fan Alexander Pines brings you this continuation of the mouse chronicles at Columbia. Look, it’s getting cold and a mouse has got to eat. We’ve about given up on Absolute, m2m, […]

Some cool shit happened this weekend.  Squash squawker Max Rettig serves it up. The 11th-ranked Columbia women’s squash team defeated 14-ranked GW in the season-opener, taking 7 of 9 matches. The victory kept the Lions’ winning streak against GW alive, and it now stands at 3 games. While GW won the first two matches, Columbia […]

In what might be the next best thing to having famous basketball folk on campus at random times during the year, the LA Lakers gave the Columbia Dance Marathon a nice little shout-out video. The marathon ran from the 23-24th this weekend.

Well actually, we can’t, but Columbia Ballet Collaborative can. Their new video, featuring Kaitlyn Gilliland and James Lasky, is amazing and should be watched. Choreographer Gus Reed has outdone himself. Unfortunately, CBC’s performances for this semester have passed, but they will be having another show in February. In the meantime, they offer free ballet classes every […]

There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s CCSC to allocate funds ‘n stuff (and Joseph Milholland to tell us all about it). The November 24 2013 CCSC meeting began with the announcement that two Columbia students were out picking up the meeting’s much-hyped Dino BBQ themselves instead of having it delivered […]

A man dies after falling down the stairs at the courthouse on the day of his trial. Can the court get sued now? (NY Times). Thought the world was done with Charles Manson. (Rolling Stone) Columbia is getting sued for being too dark and injuring a detective while he was chasing someone on the job. […]

Without further ado, here is the cast you can expect to see on stage this spring in V120. Congrats all around to the cast! Sam Balzac CC ’17 Ellie Beckman CC ’16 Brittany Beljak BC ’16 Lacey Bookspan BC ’17 Michael Carter CC ’14 Alex Donnelly CC ’14 Lindsay Garber BC ’16 Emma Grueskin BC […]

Because Bwog is totally not feeding the trolls your Seventeen Magazine, we’ve decided to field any and all pleas for help sent in to our anonymous tip form or tips@bwog.com. If you or “a friend” have anything to ask Momma Bwog about, send it in and we’ll offer shady advice the best we’ve got. Up today: dildo […]