There’s a lot of music out there to rip off–Bwog music critic Bryan Mochizuki gives us the run down on the downloads. The new Jay-Z album, Kingdom Come, leaked last weekend in its entirety.  The first five tracks? Awesome, with hints of incredible.  The back ten? Pepsi One. Or New Coke.  Drinketh:  Beach Chair (ft. […]

Cold season is fast approaching and Bwog doesn’t want you catching one. For advice on how to stay healthy this winter, correspondent Kate Linthicum sought out Roman, the cryptic, clever shoe repairman who works at Paul’s Shoe Repair on 111th and Broadway. The 55-year-old with a shy smile but a hearty, rumbling laugh says he […]

Bwog doesn’t have the cash to “pimp your room,” and we certainly don’t want to raid it and then date you. So we bring you our semi-weekly feature, the “Cribs-esque” Room Hopping, continuing with… Gabi, Moe, Celia, Sara (left to right) and Tom (not pictured), some adventurous and artsy juniors and seniors, set out from […]

A Project Runway party sounds like a good excuse for cosmos, and who doesn’t like sake at an “Asian tea party?” And everyone knows going to clubs is only fun when you’re trashed. Oh, wait, did we miss the point?  Whichever dude said “what’s in a name?” had obviously not met Ultimate Fighting champ Tom […]

One of Columbia’s most touted affiliates/sons, economist Milton Friedman, died today.  There is gnashing of teeth. Please, let us know your favorite (fictional) Milton Memories.

Maybe we’re just better?  For the world, comedians. For Columbia, ex-Presidents!  Wednesdays = entirely superfluous. Ask, Don’t Tell–Columbia administrators riding high Support the team, not the record Urinetown! Urinetown! Urinetown!

Intrepid Bwog correspondents Juli Weiner and Emily Cheesman have come to the end of their three day foray into Tasti purgatory! Here is their final report. Words lose their meaning in the face of the totally unique combination of hunger and irritability brought on by three days of Tasti D (how very hateful that slang […]

You knew something was missing in your life… oh, yeah. The social part. Well, the Bwog is here to cure what ails ya. If you want one of these theater kids to give you a sneak preview, email bwgossip@columbia.edu and let us know. If it’s a match, we’ll spring $5 for a date. (Generous!) And […]

In anticipation of their first fall show, Bwog sat down with two members of Ava Luna, a band that bends genres even as it redefines them.  Carlos Hernandez C’07 does guitar and vocals, while Nate Tompkins C’05 plays bass.  Can you describe the band’s birth?  Who was the midwife? Carlos:  My mother is a professional […]

Seemingly the only Columbia heroes missing from Roone Arledge Auditorium today were Jeffrey Sachs and John Jay — though both were certainly at the Havel/Clinton/PrezBo prestige-aganza in spirit. In an event that vindicated CUArts’ alumni donation siphoning existence, the two former world leaders touched on both fighting TB and the Federalist Papers during their conversation, loosely based […]

Looks like last Friday’s CC Coursewide Lecture by the esteemed President Havel has had a real effect on class discussions.  An anonymous tipster sends in this conversation, about Havel’s belief in the legislation of morality, from a recent class meeting. Student 1: I think that when private acts affect the community, that’s when the government […]

Columbia Imposes Itself on Community Again; “Second-grader Julissa Beralto Agreed. ‘I Don’t Want Them to Take Our School Away,’ She Said.”  Then She Cried and Hugged her Puppy as They Both Opened Their Eyes Real Wide.  Look At What We Are Doing!  Monsters! And Then, All of a Sudden, the Expansionist Instinct is Noble Again. […]

Pushing the limits of human endurance, intrepid Bwog correspondents Emily Cheesman and Juli Weiner have embarked on a three day Tasti D. diet. The rules: liquids only (water, juice, coffee) besides Tasti, at least two Tasti “meals” per day, and all food must be consumed in the Tasti Lounge. Their second report follows. Dear Tasti, […]

In which Bwog Staffer Brendan Ballou tries desperately to find something to talk about with Kira Kalina von Ostenfeld — a German countess who graduated from Georgetown at age 19 to work for the FBI, grew up in Peru, learned six languages, and started her own art company. She’s also a fifth-year grad student in […]

Stephanie Davidson sez: Free food! Right now – Lerner piano lounge. Chicken fingers, hot cider, cookies, fries, music.