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 […]

As if you needed a reason to get out of Morningside Heights and into one of the greatest cities in the world. Nevertheless, Bwog offers a few. ( * designates free) Thursday Bobby McFerrin, vocalist Alison Krauss and bassist Edgar Meyer at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. 8 PM Friday * 90s indie rap heroes Soul Summit […]

Last night’s eclipse was widely watched around campus. Bwog was there, too, tucked in Pupin Hall’s cozy rooftop telescope, along with half the Columbia staff and their children. Bwog took the time to interview two eight-year olds on their opinions of the eclipse. Eight year old #1 (lisping audibly and shrieking): Oh my gosh!

The pantsuit is what’s keeping Hillary from the nomination, femininity It really speaks volumes about the id of The Eye when the name chosen for a fictitious professor is “Rutherford Edgemont,” which are actually two towns in north Jersey and Westchester, respectively. Breaking: California kids choose to leave California the first chance they get Nellie […]

Two reminders about foodstuffs today:  Free: Got SeOUL Food? The annual multi-cultural buffet is tonight at 7 PM in Lerner 555. There will be prizes to win, bands to hear, dinner to be consumed free of charge. Not so: The College Dems and V&T Pizza will be donating all proceeds from pizza sales tonight from […]

The Village Voice is reporting that the Air Force Academy in Colorado is coming under fire for inviting three men (one of whom being Walid Shoebat) claiming to be “reformed Muslim terrorists” to give a conference about terrorism and religion. The three were paid $13,000 to speak about counter-terrorism strategies at the American Assembly-sponsored event. […]

Tipster Rick Betita directed Bwog’s attention to Gothamist, whose attention was focused on The New Yorker‘s Letters to the Editor section. Specifically the letter in which Michael Allison, adjunct professor of astronomy at Columbia, had written about January 28th’s cover (see right).  Allison insists that due to the certain conditions (namely,”the angle of the long […]