Wondering what the fuss around St. John the Divine around 2:00 was all about? Apparently, it’s Dominican Heritage Month. Bwogger-slash-tipster David Iscoe has the scoop: “A crowd waving Dominican and American flags stood on Amsterdam and 110th, and then a motorcade of black Town Cars and Suburbans, with Dominican flags, came by joyfully honking their […]

Columbia Concerts and Hillel are worthy of huge sums of money; everyone else, not so much. The closing of Cafe Pertutti doesn’t necessarily mean that a good restaurant will take its place.  Nerds have more fun. Plagiarism is not just for college journalists and first-time novelists anymore. The angle of the long axis of the […]

Competitive cooking came to Columbia this afternoon.  Read on to see who proved their culinary capacity and who fell short. Coinciding with the premiere of season four of Bravo’s Top Chef, the Hartley-Wallach Living and Learning Center hosted their own cooking competition this afternoon.  The first Annual LLC Iron Chef Competition pitted fellow Hartley-Wallach residents […]

You’ll have to excuse us for our lazy morning, yesterday was Bwog’s 2nd Birthday Party at La Negrita and we’re still a bit tired. Bwoggers, BWers and alums aplenty migrated to 109th and Columbus (despite the slush and ice) to celebrate with drinks, Top 40 hits, and the memories of QuickSpecs and Major Columbia Controversies […]

Don’t worry if you slept through brunch! “Bagels and stuff” courtesy of the Debate Team in the Lerner Party Space, says tipster Christopher Morris-Lent.

Now, going on GChat to see if other people are online and reading their away messages is less shameful and more stalker-y than ever. Use the new “invisible” feature and no one can even tell you’re there while you sit online for hours and hours watching status bubbles go from green to orange. Panopticonic!   […]

Bwogger Justin Gonçalves weighs in with words and pictures from last night’s ESC Battle of the Bands. Last night, on the storied stage of Roone Arledge Auditorium, the Engineering Student Council capped off its annual E-Week celebrations with the ESC Battle of the Bands. After five bands ran through ten-minute sets, Crown Victoria and the […]

Ever since it started to snow last night, Cooking has been craving cocoa. Bwogger Maryam Parhizkar suggested the following home-spun hot chocolate recipe. Mexican Hot Chocolate 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 1/4 cup sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon, or alternatively 3-4 sticks of cinnamon 3 tsp vanilla 1 quart of milk Combine the cocoa, sugar, and […]

The February issue of the Blue and White is hitting your newsstand right now! If you don’t feel up to an elevator ride, though, it’s also available on the web. Here’s some highlights. Interested in the tenure process? Do you understand baseball at least as well as a Little Leaguer? Let us help. Finally, video […]

Bwog snow correspondent Kate Linthicum brings us some excellent photos of the big show that you’re hiding from indoors.

Bwog entered the terrible twos last week, and is looking forward to teething, walking, colic, and replying to every statement with a simple “Why?” As such, you are pleasantly reminded that the second anniversary of our birth will be celebrated tonight at La Negrita (Columbus & 109th Street), at 10 PM. Bwog will be personally […]

Dateline: Teacher’s College. In what is tentatively being dubbed the “2008 Madonna Constantine Plagiarism Incident Slash Witch Hunt Slash General Racism Shitshow”, the Times is starting the morning off by informing us that Professor Constantine will be keeping her job. The New Republic takes a surprisingly un-touchy-feely position and, frankly, goes on a bit of […]

Tipster Mitchell Flax informs Bwog that trays for sledding purposes are being given away outside of John Jay, by the kosher deli. Upperclassmen and anyone with a sense of tradition will understand when we say that it’d be a TRAY-jedy if you didn’t get to TRAY sledding on one of these.

Columbia inexplicably fails to put a front-page story on their website about Vampire Weekend. Meanwhile, Spec takes the low road and calls a Barnard swipe story “Easy Access.” Further downtown, it turns out that the guy from Harry and the Potters has nothing interesting to say. Community Board 9 is up in arms about a […]

CityRoom is reporting that a lawyer named Adam Bailey representing small businesses located on Frederick Douglass Blvd. is proposing that 125th Street (from the Hudson to the East) be declared “Harlem Historic Zone.”  Characterizing attempts to have 125th street considered historical as “Harlem’s last stand”, CityRoom quotes Bailey as saying: “When the Brooklyn Bridge was […]