The Wikipedia article for The Hold Steady says that Daniel Radcliffe has proclaimed the quintet as his “favourite band.”  He’s in good company; the formerly Twin Cities-based rockers (now the pride of Brooklyn) have reached the apotheosis of indie stardom.  Following the release of their third-life crisis album, Boys and Girls in America, they toured […]

Today we celebrate Constitution Day, a new fake holiday the venerable Senator Robert Byrd (right) created in 2004 when he slipped an extraneous rider onto an appropriations bill. Under Byrd’s guidelines, all students and government employees are legally required to set aside some time to reflect on the power of “the foundation and the guardian of our liberties.” Because, you […]

The Night Cafe, like Mona, is closing. Bwog correspondent Kate Linthicum got there before the taps shut off forever.  Last night, as the prickly first winds of autumn blew across Morningside Heights, the loveliest dive bar in the neighborhood sang its swan song. Dozens of devoted patrons pressed into the warmth of the Night Café […]

For those of you who haven’t hit your 5th fruit or vegetable today, there are dozens of bananas in the Lerner lobby just waiting to be eaten. Not creepy anthropomorphic bananas, mind you, but bananas of the healthy, mushy-brown, delicious and edible kind. So go get one.

Minutemen, minutemen. What heady times those were. Stages were rushed, lives changed,  definitions for “Kulawiking” determined. Indeed, it was only after many long and trying months of op-eds, town hall meetings and general soul-searching that we were finally able to go about the difficult business of trying to move on with our lives. Or did we? Via […]

Sophomores Mike Molina and Rob Stenson (the kids who brought you this hilarity), along with Jeff Schwartz, are launching a crusade for as-yet-largely-nonexistent independent film at Columbia. It’s called Project Bluelight, modeled off the real-life Project Greenlight, which makes movies happen from storyboard to screening. Bwog interrogated them last night via e-mail. Do you have […]

Cafe 212 is now selling massive 8 oz. tubs of candy corn for $4.29… and people are buying them.

We here at Bwog were literally convulsing with excitement when we heard t hat a Columbia alum was nominated for Attorney General (Princeton you  are soooo wiretapped…). If you’re like us, you can pass your congratulations along to mmukas@law.columbia.edu –Mukasey was a lecturer in the Law School, and team-taught a seminar on Advanced Trial Practice in the Fall of 2006. Could […]

Kibbitzer kvetches about Kosher nosh, finds some o f it to be quite geschmak Comparatively non-obscure Columbian to join lame-duck presidential administration Bwog apparently not a source of profound remorse. We’re sorry? Intellectual snob decries intellectual snobbery “I love to see their excited faces as they hop aboard the apple” This is pretty fucked  

Since we posted about this earlier: if you want to be an EcoRep, but you didn’t have time to fill out the application by the previous deadline (Saturday), it’s not too late! The deadline has been extended to Thursday, and the application shortened. Now just answer any two questions and the last (three total) and […]

The Jester’s new “orientation issue” isn’t entirely new (it also includes some past highlights) nor did it come out during orientation. Still, here goes. All links go to the same PDF. Yet another attempt to justify the cost of our education. (Page 2) Morals, eh? (7) What classes was Jester taking if these are their […]

Living in Carman can sometimes resemble wading through a disaster zone. Last night was one of those times. Freshman flood survivor Kurt Kanazawa reports:  Last night, the explosion of a hot water pipe in the bathroom of suite 1103 set off a fire alarm and covered half the floor with about an inch of water. […]

Tidbits from tonight’s CCSC meeting: – First, the first Lerner Pub is this Thursday from 10-12 (as the rest of us try, and fail, to get into East Campus). – Excitingly, Flex off Campus, per junior class President George Krebs, is “well underway,” with a timeline put together by the administration in place. Said timeline […]

A tipster sends the following anecdote:  Today I got off the subway at Columbus Circle to see a crowd gathering beneath the globe in front of the Trump tower. A man was on top of the globe, wearing rollerblades. More and more police came, and an ambulance with paramedics and a stretcher. After about ten […]

In an attempt to recreate the magic of Coney Island’s 92-year-old tradition, kosher frat Alpha Epsilon Pi hosted a hot dog eating contest that was a real sausage fest. In fact, that’s what they called it: “Sausage Fest.” Justin Vlasits filed some photos and an account of what went down.  AEPi’s hot dog eating contest […]