Nothing like the election holiday to get us talking about Jesus. In McBain, Josh shares this tip: Two security guards are talking at the swipe-in desk when I walk in. Guard 1: Yeah, that’s true. Guard 2: (In a very matter-of-fact tone). You can’t trust a man with a knife in one hand, a smile […]

For those of us who spent Thursday night watching Grey’s Anatomy instead of CTV’s soap opera premiere, The Gates, our strange dream of watching fellow Columbians act like melodramatic fellow Columbians is now realized! Watch the drama unfold in the poor quality tradition of YouTube. (See the links below.) Oh the suspense! The Gates Pilot […]

UPDATE, Sunday 3:10 PM: As pointed out by a commenter, news of the Business School potentially moving to Manhattanville was amply covered by the Spectator last year. The precise location is unconfirmed. The source for the Economics Department’s cancelled move to Knox Hall is an administrator in the Economics department via a student tipster; this […]

Today, the women’s soccer team beat Harvard in a 1-0 victory after more than 80 minutes of scoreless soccer. Columbia beat Harvard before— six years ago. Columbia will learn of its next opponent during the NCAA Women’s College Cup selection show on Monday, Nov. 6.  The show will air on ESPNEWS between 3-4 p.m. Read the […]

Not again! Here comes the third of five installments of Bwog correspondent Addison Anderson’s travels to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York. In this segment: poignancy, “cooking with gas,” the earth’s most important room, plate tectonics, and a healthily collaborative working environment! As we head to the Core Lab, Brusa picks up two […]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan premiered in American movie theaters yesterday. Bwog contributor Mark Krotov tells you why Kazakh pubis and scantily clad African-American prostitutes may not always be a good thing. I was really excited about Borat. Like, a lot. I saw every trailer multiple times, frequented the website […]

We got an inside sneak peak of the West End’s newly Cubanized interior earlier tonight when it opened its doors for the now-annual celebration of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other Columbia-affiliated Beats, culminating in an enthusiastic reading of Ginsberg’s Howl. For an event devoted to subversive young artists, the ‘Stend’s new digs, not to […]

Each Friday, Bwog will be airing a new feature:  .  Ask Bwog about Columbia, college life, or anything else…we’ll find you the expert and post the results.  This week, one of our staffers wondered about the accuracy of the cardio machines up at Dodge. He looked to Stacy Toner, the aptly-named acting coordinator of the Personal Training Program at […]

The rumor mill is spinning with reports that upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods is set to move into a new condo development to supplant Park West Village, along Columbus Ave. from 97th to 100th Streets. New York real estate blog Curbed notes that, “because something about these Whole Foods rumors always seems to play out, […]

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 the semi-weekly feature, the “Cribs-esque” Room Hopping, continuing with… It may be a brownstone on 114th street, but don’t walk into the sorority EAT (Sigma Delta Tau) expecting Animal-House-caliber mayhem. […]

Columbia = SO Money Recent GS Graduate Runs for NYS Senate Against 34-year Incumbent Named Caesar, Who’s Really Just Thinking of This as a Good Excuse to Bulk Up His Collection of Knife-Proof Vests Vote or Die! Vote! Die! CU Libraries to Regain Sense of Self Worth Pending Opening of US Weekly Branch

After Prof. Janaki Bakhle opened her morning class surprised that anyone bothered to show up with “Denzel and Russell Crowe [pictured at right on another set for the same movie] filming at 116th and Riverside,” where she was excited that she “saw limos,” Bwog could not resist checking out the scene west of campus, where yet another crew […]

So, what the eff is going on in front of Wien? Last we checked, it looked like Mars after some misbegotten NASA craft crashed into the ground. We speculate that is has something to do with the boiler? Hopefully Wien-ers won’t have to hire a human rights lawyer this time. Also, according to informant and […]

“By searching for Columbia’s vestiges of patriotism, we may feel as if we are playing a game of Where’s Waldo with a Rand McNally map.” Borat may mock misogyny, anti-Semitism, and racism by overtly exhibiting these traits, and he might grossly stereotype an actual Central Asian country to the point that their government has issued […]

Oh, the drama! The scandal! The coy glances! The Gates, a soap opera about Columbia life, is premiering on CTV, YouTube, and iTunes at 9PM tonight. Though you might already know this, because they picked this up at IvyGate yesterday, and we posted about it too. Anyways, after the jump: Some more promotional stills to pique your little guilty-pleasure-loving […]