If you ask nicely enough, the Postal Service will send your letter to Santa. (1010WINS) If you fire a gun, the cops will hear it. With computers! (New York Times) If you’re a waiter and fail to bother your customers for their e-mail addresses, you will get YELLED AT A WHOLE %&$*@#$ lot. (NY Post) […]

The stereotypical Columbia football season may be one long fall, but this year’s version would be better described as a roller-coaster, and today’s 28-14 victory over Brown ensured that ride ended on a happy note. Senior safety Andy Shalbrack returned an interception 49 yards for a touchdown at the end of the first half, and […]

Bwog Official Economic Smackdown Arbiter Mark Hay joined the audience in 313 Fayerweather to hear from NYU’s significantly more sarcastic answer to Jeff Sachs. When, while hosting a speech by our dear Professor Jeffrey Sachs last weekend, Columbia’s Delta GDP group announced that outspoken Sachs critic NYU Professor William Easterly would be coming to the […]

Resident Movies ‘n’ Mashed Potatoes Machine Mark Hay is back with three films to enjoy in that post-turkey stupor. Thanksgiving approaches quickly and many of you will be returning to your families. Bwog sympathizes with those of you who will be returning to dysfunction, disorder and other such unpleasantness. So in the spirit of the […]

Last night Sarah Camiscoli attended Bat Boy along with a mob of eager Columbia students that filled Lerner Black Box to the rim. Thankfully, several poor souls abandoned their spots on opening night, offering Bwog a spot in the audience to review the sold out show. “The way of sin is death, sweetheart,” preaches Jill […]

Episode 1 of a series, in which Bwog’s Poultry Pundit David Hu infiltrates the delis of Morningside Heights in search of the perfect Thanksgiving sandwich. Meal One: Thursday, November 19, 2009. 8:16pm “Turkey Shoot” from Westside Market As I sit here staring at the culinary delight in front of me, I am excited for two […]

Pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin butter, hot apple cider, and a plethora of other seasonal goodies await pancake pilgrims in Wien Lounge from 11-1. The brunch is for Wien and EC residents only— but really, who can tell? Photo via Wikimedia Commons

How to deal with newspaper-related beefs: Take your paper’s website hostage? Or hang up a giant piece of “art” that depicts a rival editor, naked, with a twenty-foot penis on the side of your building? Is that even a question? (TheLocal) NYU kids find their own James Franco to stalk; lack the subtlety and finesse […]

Wien Lounge Free brunch for EC &  Wien residents! There will be homemade pumpkin pancakes, homemade pumpkin butter, apple cider, coffee, and other breakfast foods cooked by the RA’s. It’s first come first serve, so come early!

A Bwog tipster stepped out onto the doorstep of River this morning to find this rather damaged copy of a Damages shooting script nestled among some dead leaves. Welcome to New York, where even our litter is kind of glamorous.

Bwog sat down with the latest Columbian to make the rest of his class look bad. All-Amur’can Raphael Graybill (CC ’10) of Great Falls, Montana has recently been awarded the 2010 Marshall Scholarship. Each year, the prestigious award is granted to up to 40 American students of “high ability” to pursue graduate studies in the […]

Every play ever produced has been showing this weekend and last.  Bwog’s Anish Bramhandkar checks out the latest offering from the CU Players, Dirty Hands. There’s no way around it.  Dirty Hands, Jean-Paul Sartre’s post-war political drama, is very long.  At the end of the two-and-a-half hour play, you’ve enjoyed yourself but find yourself wishing […]

Damages, the acclaimed FX drama, will be squatting on Broadway between 113th and 114th (give or take) until around 10pm this evening.  Liz Naiden, Chief of all things “Revered and Reviled,” managed to sneak a glimpse of the production trailers, and found labels including “The Clown Room” and “Future Boss Players.”  Plot guesses, anyone?

Break out the cheap wine and hors d’oeuvres: there’s an art installation on your Metrocard. (NY Times) Mayor Bloomberg makes a $125 million impulse buy. (NY Daily News) Hipsters are arrested in Williamsburg for their overzealous labeling (and drug possession). (The Brooklyn Paper) The Department of Transportation says it’s “Gridlock Alert” Day; thanks, but we already […]