Bwog daily editor Mariela Quintana peers into the insular, feminine world of insular, feminine authors on a Thursday night at Barnard. Yesterday evening, I crossed over to the other side of Broadway and made my way to across the Barnard quad to attend a reading hosted by Great Writers at Barnard Series featuring authors Myla […]

This week on Cooking with Bwog, Bwog Chef brings you a recipe from her time whipping up grub for the paying public. It’s a crab salad with citrus vinaigrette, tortilla chips, black bean salsa and guacamole. Enjoy! This recipe is a little more complicated than recipes usually posted in this column, but it shouldn’t be […]

Ariel Hudes pluralizes “Roar, Lion, Roar“. And, for that matter, uses it in a column. In all caps. As the last line. “Street names [sic] carved by old cow trails.” Talking about… Boston? London? Oh, um, Staten Island. Cow trails? I bet that fact came from a book. Spec boldly asks a question nobody has […]

In the past 15 minutes, Bwog has been deluged with news of an evacuation at Pinnacle that happened between 12 and 1 a.m. Apparently, the soggy pizza peddlers have been threatened with a bomb. Tipster Miriam Manber relays that the NYPD is caution-taping the restaurant off; Vedant Misra tells of four squad cars surrounding the […]

Once again the finger-food was set out at 60 Morningside Drive and once again the president of Fair Alma took a cue from FDR, hosting a fireside chat in his humble, multi-million dollar abode.  Employees from the President’s Office removed my coat and guided students from every part of the University up an elegant marble […]

April is not just Poetry Month, it’s also Earth Awareness Month. W.M. Akers reports on NYU’s valiant awareness-raising nude protest/celebration. A civic-minded group of students took to the streets outside of the  main NYU buildings today, exhibiting their bodies and their concern for the environment. Timing their small march to coincide with the gap in […]

If these events are not enough for you, Bwog recommends you check out the listings linked for National Poetry Month. On a tangent from that,  Bwog sincerely enjoys this charming photograph of New York poet Frank O’Hara (who will not be present at any of the events listed). TONIGHT Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman at […]

Yes, it’s free money to buy food! According to two eager-to-email passersby, Starbucks representatives are giving away $5 gift cards in front of Lerner. Bwog remains perplexed, and skeptical of tipster Ben Isham’s explanation that this “string-free free money” is “part of a promotion to ‘educate’ students about how their parents can reload them monthly.” […]

The signs of spring are everywhere on campus: two students sitting on the lawn listening to a radio, absolutely no frisbees whatsoever, and the season’s first whiff of insanity wafting up from Manhattanville. This afternoon’s distinctive smell is caused by Anne Whitman, the owner of the former Sheffield Farms stable building. The University is still […]

Now what, pray tell, is a “confetti canon”? Sweet Valley High exegesis Campus-themed haiku: Bwog rip off?  You know, provocateurs who insist that “gore-porn” is art aren’t really that provocative anymore. Overdosing on analysis, not drugs: yes, that’s what Columbia and Harvard bands do. 

As registration nears, Bwog worries many of you remain undecided in choosing your fall 2008 classes. To help the undecided and unsure, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most promising-sounding courses. Know of interesting sounding classes? Send them our way (bwog@columbia.edu) and we’ll update the list. Specificity is a Construct Fall 2008 Art […]

In recent months, Bwog readers have risen from limerick-fearing philistines to haiku-handy aesthetes…and just in time for Poetry Month! And after all, rainy April is the perfect time for indoor sports like contemplation and reflection. For a gentle night on the town, consider this listing of poetry events. For the heavy-hearted and heavy-handed who can’t […]

6,000-strong superclass vs. the rest of us The Abyssinian Development Corp. is mean to little old ladies with doctor’s appointments Student councilmen (promise to) wrassle 7% from the cost of your packaged Lit Hum and CC book sets Quirky DJs decimate listening audience Art tussles with hate, apathy 

“There are about 1100 billionaires in the world,” David Rothkopf CC’77 said, “and their wealth is equal to that of the bottom 2.5 billion people.” He was the focal point of “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making,” a panel discussion packed with high powered folks, including PrezBo himself, who delivered […]

As we reported earlier, CCSC presidential candidate George Krebs challenged his opponent, Alidad Damooei, to a basketball showdown which was to be played this Friday in Dodge. As we also reported earlier, Krebs threatened that Damooei and Connect Columbia “be there or be square.”  Neither there nor, arguably, square, Damooei has re-buffed Krebs’ basketball throwdown […]