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 […]

Minutemen speak. Fire alarm goes off- possibly in a dorm. Supporters start blaming protesters, complaining about being deprived of free speech. Man struck by falling plaster at the Apollo Theater. PrezBo pops out of the wall to say, “Sorry, just making out preliminary structural changes before we turn this into a laboratory.” Gather round, children, at […]

In which S. Alex Kudroff tells us what makes B&W staffer Will Snider’s play different from all other plays… “Everything Different” is college compressed into 85 minutes. Will Snider manages to capture the essence of a night of drunken mayhem in a dorm suite where conversations roam from love to sex, depression, drugs, revolution, and […]

Bwog Personals receives countless testimonials. “I met my future spouse on Bwog!” “My date was great!” “It’s tough on grease and fights germs too!” “It cuts the fat!” Well, if anything we’ve had a pretty good track record lately! So if one of these two strikes your fancy, email bwgossip@columbia.edu and let us know. If […]

Every semester, President Bollinger brings about 40 students off the street into his swanky abode at 60 Morningside Drive to find out what’s going on in the collective student consciousness. Registration is competitive, and as Bwog mounted the cushy staircase to PrezBo’s elegantly appointed receiving room, we realized why: the snacks are phenomenal. During a […]

ABC’s Six Degrees has been filming near here all day, and we’ve managed to locate their food tent! Walk on by Nussbaum, wear a baseball cap, and say you’re the best boy! In other news, it seems as if people on the sets of TV shows do a lot of standing around, and not much […]

 “Modern Physics and Ancient Faith”: The 2006 Thomas Merton Lecture, delivered by Professor Stephen Barr in St. Paul’s Chapel,  October 30th. “Science and Religion,” “Faith and Reason” – buzzword dichotomies for the sound-bite arguments of our polarized political discourse. Given this, the absence of publicity surrounding Stephen Barr’s lecture “Modern Physics and Ancient Faith” – […]