Irvine R. Levine, style guru, insisted on his bowties and the use of his middle initial during his forty-five years at NBC. The former Weatherman and 1968 revolutionary Mark Rudd has released his new memoir, but The Wall Street Journal is far from impressed. An oddly-specific study shows that fast food makes people fat.  For […]

   -photo by JPMB It seems the curse of the closing restaurants has again struck Morningside, and this time, under- (and over-) age drinkers university-wide will be feeling the pain.  According to a notice spotted this morning at La Negrita, Bwog’s go-to boozerie will shut its doors “indefinitely” next Saturday, the 11th of April. While […]

The Columbia baseball team began its Ivy League title defense successfully, with two wins over Harvard. In the first game, the Lions won 8-3 thanks to a complete game from pitcher Joe Scarlata (5 strikeouts). Third baseman Mike Roberts and left fielder Anthony Potter hit back-to-back homers for the Lions in the second inning, and […]

    Tipsters alerted us to a New York Times report of two automobile accidents on Friday, one of which took place on 106th and Amsterdam.  According to the Times, “a taxi, apparently rammed from behind by a silver Hyundai, jumped onto a sidewalk” and “slammed into the window of Mama’s Pizzeria.”  Fortunately, the collision […]

Yesterday, Barnard admissions email-blasted all 2,389 strong, beautiful women with a request:  help convince high school seniors that Morningside Heights is the place to be! Barnard’s luring ladies in with the promise of “a coupon for a free surprise gift” and hoping that they’ll either participate in a phone-a-thon evening or jot down an encouraging […]

  -Image via ChangeForge.com This week in cinema: Bwog’s expert Film Filterer Mark Hay takes umbrage at the end of leisure and the return to toil. It never ceases to amaze, the way that one week’s absence can erase the memory of and tolerance for the massive gobs of work that are collectively Columbia. With […]

After such a warm day, there are two options for your early evening: first, Amnesty International’s cleverly named “Jamnesty,” which will combine live music with a free “Ethiopian dinner.” Apparently, live music plus Ethiopian food equals “almost like the 60s… minus the pot.” The potless-ness begins at 8:30 in Earl Hall Auditorium. If living a […]

Baseball: The defending Ivy League champions start league play this weekend, hosting Harvard and Dartmouth in home doubleheaders. Although the team has started 2-16, that record has been against top competition, including #23 Lamar and #20 San Diego, and the team remains in a strong position for the Ivy League this year. Both doubleheaders begin noon at […]

In case those high lottery cutoff numbers had you thinking EC was some sort of “Palace in the Sky,” you can enjoy a hearty helping of schadenfreude this morning. Tipsters tell us and Housing confirms that all hot water is off in the building because of “emergency repairs.” Maintenance crews are just now arriving, so […]

Bwog contributor Anna Kellner sends this dispatch from Thursday night’s Creative Writing Lecture Series talk, delivered by James Wood. (No, not that one, this one.) Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Harold Bloom. A Creative Writing MFA student opened the talk, titled “Creating Fictional Character: Presences and Absences,” by rightfully exulting James Wood’s place in this pantheon […]

 Image courtesy of Mom3Teach NYU students are way, way cooler than we could ever hope to be. The homeless are too lazy to build their own robots. New York City is the center of the Universe. Of all the aquatic mammals, it’s the beavers who will accost you. Lerner 6 has no purpose — okay, […]

 -Photo via Washingtoninformer.com Spring break is behind us, and now it’s time to celebrate the delightful lull before finals come into full swing. The city might be our classroom, but this week we’ve got the time to make it our playroom.    Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Zing, Zang, Zoom! Various times until April 13th, Madison […]

Bwog has now entered the dictionary and was featured by the New York Times–sort of. Thanks to a tip from a handy-dandy commenter, we discovered a NYT blog post on vocabulary introducing ‘unbwogable‘ into the English lexicon. According to the post: ‘Unbwogable (adj): unshakable or indomitable–from the Kenyan word bwogo, meaning scare or shake.’ The […]

The Varsity Show and the Blue and White are looking for experienced graphic artists who are comfortable using Adobe Photoshop to clean up photos and make them illustration-quality (see examples at right).  Your skills will be put to use in designing the images in the Varsity Show program.  If you’re interested, please email bweditors@columbia.edu immediately.

Housing just announced the appointment times for Suite Selection. Appointments will be in John Jay Lounge and start at 9:30AM on March 30th and continue at two minute intervals until 4:30 every weekday through the seventh of April.  Don’t be late, and, if you’re assigning a proxy to pick a suite for you, make sure […]