Recapitulation of this weekend’s football endeavor by CML Saturday began in New Haven with frigid wind and driving rain, and ended for the Lions with an even greater dreariness.  For me, visiting the city from which I was rejected last April evoked mixed feelings: it was certainly consoling to be able to juxtapose a wasteland […]

Welcome once again to Cooking With Bwog, bringing you the cooking tips you need to eat well using dorm kitchens, a lack of utensils, and a tight budget. This week, Bwog’s culinary team brings you tips for using your microwave.  Microwaves are so informal in the cooking world that they often aren’t mentioned in cook […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez recommends a melodrama with honesty. Like many Iranian movies, Bahman Ghobadi’s beautiful and passionate A Time for Drunken Horses focuses its poignant narrative on children, a device some critics consider excessively manipulative, but which Ghobadi handles with honesty and an admirable restraint. The film follows a family of orphaned Kurdish […]

In a world where college bands seem to be perpetuating the same ol’ indie trend, Beilis serves as a refreshing reminder that not all college bands want to be The Walkmen 2.0.  The band, fronted by Matt Beilis SEAS ’07, is composed of guitarist Pete Couto C ’07, drummer Matt DeWit NJIT ’07, and bassist […]

“Gandhi, Newton, and Enlightenment”: University Lecture delivered by Professor Akeel Bilgrami in Low Memorial Library Rotunda, October 25th.   Akeel Bilgrami is Columbia’s secret big deal. He’s not a Foner, Sachs, Khalidi, or even a Massad, but… Bilgrami… that sounds familiar right? If it doesn’t, Alan Brinkley’s introduction to Bilgrami’s University Lecture (“Gandhi, Newton, and […]

Hear ye, hear ye.  The second of five installments of Bwog correspondent Addison Anderson’s travels to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York has arrived.  In this segment: Doc Ewing, explosions in New Jersey, a trap door in Schermerhorn, space constraints, seafaring, more explosions, general disarray, a very famous kitchen, and bees!       Doc […]

Last night the University officially marked the beginning of all-around mensch Václav Havel’s residence at Columbia with a swanky party at the Stone Rose Lounge in Columbus Circle. Among the trustees, donors, and administrators circulated two Bwog correspondents, who had cadged passes at a CU Arts pizza party. In a decidedly unsober phone call, they […]

In 702 Hamilton from 1-1:30 PM there will be a slideshow biography of Václav Havel’s life with free Papa John’s pizza and Nalgenes. You can also buy Havel’s biography if you so choose. More info on this at www.havel.columbia.edu …hurry, you know how that Hamilton elevator gets.

If you find yourself in need of a pick-me-up in the (other) holiday season…the one that celebrates small children talking to strangers, cotton cobwebs, and fear in general… check out these heartening personals!  Email bwgossip@columbia.edu; if you’re chosen we’ll give the two of you $5 to spend at your first meeting.  Maybe you can dress […]

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 Thursday feature, the “Cribs-esque” Room Hopping, continuing with… Kendall, C’08 rejoices in the “glue dot” (box at right). She has used this modest adhesive from Kate’s Paperie to […]

SEAS cuts to the chase.  Barnard’s Strong, Bold, Beautiful women can study feminism (as long as they major in something real, too) Barnard jumps on the we-need-better-financial-aid too bandwagon.  Students find the school’s system “mysterious,” wonder why its endowment isn’t as large as some of its peer institutions’, and look to replace loans with grants. […]

Insert Manhattanville joke after headline Hey, Cold War Kids, I bet your practice pad in LA didn’t actually look like a Third World country. It didn’t? It had Pottery Barn furniture? Yeah, we’re psychic. Little Miss Sunshine as the zenith of independent movies Just remember, in the end, everyone will be too drunk to notice […]

As we perused the calendar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine this morning, as is our wont, we came across the usual upcoming list of off-the-beaten-trail artistic and religious events. We know the Cathedral is always a little quirky, but if O’Reilly catches onto this stuff, we’ll go from “left-wing jihadis” to “debauched […]

If you don’t know the name Charles Rangel (aka Charlie, Chuck, C-Unit), you would be wise to consider the following: Rangel, the Democratic representative of the 15th Congressional District- which includes Morningside Heights- stands a chance at becoming the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means if the Dems take the House this year. […]

Bwog has no words. In other potty gossip: Guy #1 – So, I almost crapped myself during the exam because the professor wouldn’t let me leave. Guy #2 (after pausing pensively) – I think if a professor doesn’t let you take a dump during the exam, it should be considered fair game to just drop […]