Indie rock… and the election! TC… and the Peace Corps! Manhattanville… and the Super Bowl! (And the phrase “iron curtain of safety!”) Judy Shapiro… and a vaguely mean knitting joke!  

In which Bwog daily editor Alexandra Muhler examines whether enormous infusions of the administration’s money can make a Thursday night on campus enjoyable. The crowds were thick at Lerner tonight for an event excessively fond of wink-wink references to wink-wink cultural icons (event t-shirts had “Glass House Rocks” on the front and “Best Thursday Ever” […]

* denotes free events! “Network” Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm, 9:30pm – Film Forum – 209 W. Houston St. – A better study of media than you’ll ever get in a Media Studies class, this ’70s classic is being shown on a new 35 mm print. Bwog is not sure what’s so special about […]

Bwog Lecture Hop editor Pierce Stanley observes as religion is reconciled with just about everything, for once. Coming on the heels of a Super Duper Tuesday that saw former Arkansas governor turned evangelical preacher Mike Huckabee decisively win five Republican primaries in the South and the recent dropping out of Republican contender Mitt Romney—a figure […]

Money + Money + Money + NYU = Culture ? New Museum + School – Pedagogical Method = Art ? Teenagers + Live Music = Club Revenue – Bar Tabs = Out of Business  Misery + Exhaustion = A Great Way to Live ? Bacteria + Yeast + “A Few Days of Growth” + “Loving […]

Columbia security guards have been going all vigilante of late, patrolling the neighborhood (or at least Broadway and Amsterdam between 111th and 116th) on foot.  Apparently, the new security protocol is a response to two recent muggings at 112th and Amsterdam.  One tipster reports seeing ten police officers and security guards on a single walk […]

Did you know the Spectator editors have a blog? Well, they do! And they have selected a winner! Apparently, Spec conducted a completely necessary survey to examine the relationship between Bwog and Spec, among other things. Some findings? For one thing, we do, in fact have a relationship. “Though its effects haven’t been researched, Bwog’s […]

The bloated acronym-octopus– so confusing it needs a bloated, meaningless metaphor to represent it– that is OoSA/OSGA/SGB (Office of Student Affairs/Office of Student Group Advising/Student Governing Board) has a new dean. Todd Smith’s job is to guard SGB (recently gobbled up by OoSA/OSGA) from administration influence.  His credentials include eight years as NYUDotOoLGBT/TSS (New York […]

Bwog newbie Sahil Vora goes Beyond the Hype of India and China to investigate the mysterious trend of “panda-hugging.” The Heyman Center for the Humanities joined up with the Committee on Global Thought and put on its second event of the spring semester, a forum entitled “India and China: A Comparison of their Past, Present, […]

This is for a very narrow section of the population, namely for those of you bored in class, reading Bwog, and contemplating a shower on your return to your dorm in EC.  Tough luck.  There will be no running water in EC for an indefinite period of time.  The reason?  Only the delightfully intriguing “emergency […]

Come on Spec copy editors, what’s a Legistation?    This article needs a more descriptive title: how about One Step Closer to Robot Soldiers? This Mexican restaurant needs a better name: how about Chipotle’s Ugly Cousin? Bwog’s not all criticism, though!  A gold star to the very appropriate alliteration in this title!  And a crime […]

Mariela Quintana reflects on a day of reflection and offers suggestions to make this year’s Lent the most productive (and honest) one yet.  Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a 40 day period of prayer, penitence and self-denial before Easter.   Lent is a theologically complex and profoundly spiritual time for Christians and requires […]

Barnard’s 2011 Class Council is offering $1 Valentine’s Day candygrams. They had a booth set up in the lobby of Sulzberger on Monday and Tuesday from 5-7 PM, and the same booth will also be there tonight and tomorrow (Thursday) evening from 5-7.

Michael Snyder, Bwog’s resident off-campus theatre critic, serves up his thoughts on the Broadway rendition of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. Now that Harold Pinter has been awarded the Nobel prize, his plays have officially entered the canon, and yet a play like The Homecoming, now in a wonderful revival at the Cort Theatre on 48th […]

An anonymous tipster let Bwog know that the rock bands scheduled at everyone’s favorite ramped building will not be playing “for security reasons.”  The bands that Bwog knows were nixed include Beta Theta Pi’s The Stolen Cars, jazz/metal Columbia band Wizards of the Coast and Bowie-imitating Brooklyn rockers Dasher.  Bwog is disappointed that we will […]