Gossip from the Morton Williams frontier! Iggy Cortez overheard this tidbit in the meat section of our favorite gouging grocers: “It was the two managers… the guy manager said they were down six thousand dollars this week. The woman was shocked and, if I heard correctly, said, ‘Well, what about X?’ and the male manager […]

    Jamal Joseph, the new chair of the School of the Arts film department, apart from being a former Black Panther, Harlem theater stalwart, and all-around artist/activist, also has the unique distinction of having authored a recent biography of slain rapper Tupac Shakur. Joseph gave Shakur, who made a posthumous $5 million last year, […]

Bwog found an article on a college Democrats blog written by Seth Flaxman. Big deal, you say? Well, we’re not talking about that Seth Flaxman. CC’s perky president has a doppelgänger, Seth Flaxman, Harvard ’08, involved in Harvard’s college Dems. We made an inquiry into the matter. Seth’s reply: Yeah, we’ve known about each other […]

Beginning at 8:30 today, Students United for America, “a nonpartisan organization promoting community service and global debate” have been holding their annual sundial reading of the names of 9/11 victims.    A reading of the number of people who have died in their names since then, anyone? 

  A look back at five years of non-progress at Ground Zero, and recollections from a bunch of people who were in the city that day Of course, Facebook news is almost as important as the 9/11 anniversary Columbia students know the best things in life are free, but you can give them to the […]

Today, Bwog returns to its habit of reprising the week’s best content, in case you missed it, or just needed to be reminded. Settling in: dorm personas, the room you wish you had Ch-ch-ch-changes: welcoming the (temporarily blinded) Eye, giving the B-School the business (but not our business), fighting the good fight (and winning!) Culled […]

Bwog was utterly charmed this afternoon by the sight of a little girl taking on the best of Broadway on the chess board. What a worldbeater.   

Good news for those who get queasy at the sight of chicken strips: the organic food coop is opening again tonight in JJ’s! Last year, Local Organic Agriculture and Friends (LOAF), re-christened Core Foods, brought you fresh veggies, soy products, and other sundry vegan treats, and this year is planning even bigger and better things. […]

Some of the delightful things Bwog has seen around the neighborhood on this pleasant, balmy Saturday: People on 110th street were loading these marked boxes into a big truck.On closer inspection, the boxes turned out to be penny harvest kits. Sixth grade fundraiser anyone? And some kids were playing leap frog outside John Jay dining […]

This year’s dorm themes make Bwog want to live in all of the dorms at once!   East Campus’ Diverse and Tolerant!: Most Cuddly Continued after the jump!

Bollinger sighting! An anonymous tipster reports: “Last night a few friends and I were walking on 116th near the Wein courtyard carrying seven handles of bad vodka and four cases of beer for a party in EC when we passed President Bollinger.  The plastic bags did little to hide the illicit content.  As he walked […]

  The Riverside Park Oyster Festival is happening from noon-9PM today at the Hudson Beach Cafe on Riverside and 105th! Admission is free! Go eat oysters and drink beer!

September Issue of The Blue and White: now available in a dorm-hallway-butler-alcove-suite-bathroom near you.  

  Today the Bwog brings you its first installment of the much-requested S & M Photo of the Day. If you have an S & M photo that you’d like to share with bwog, please (please?) email bwgossip@columbia.edu

Two Furnald freshpeople reported that a swanky Maybach  towncar (read: expensive) pulled over on College Walk to deliver a suited individual. They were unable to identify the supposedly important person, but caught these photographic gems on their camera phones.