While the curators of the hallowed Metropolitan Museum of Art felt pretty confident when they dropped $45 million on a Renaissance Masterpiece, CU art history professor James Beck just called them suckers: he’s convinced that this painting’s a fake. Read the full story in the Times.

Bwog fan Joyce Hau checks in from Berlin, where she jostled with nearly a million football fiends on the Fan Mile for the final match of the world cup between Italy and France. From Joyce: How ironic–the French have nothing to thank him for now. More from Joyce, including literal translations of German player’s last […]

You guessed it! The infamous hate-crime cracker packets showed up again on campus this week—and this time we have photographic proof. Bwog correspondent/cryptographer/gumshoe investigator Addison Anderson, who spied the pictured item of hatred on a bench on the path between Lerner and Low, wrote up the following account. Read the full report, which includes an […]

Bwog is inclined to giggle at the absurdity of this one, but then wants to break down in tears. A disgruntled man took a chainsaw to a postal worker on the platform of the 110th street subway station this morning. Two chainsaws, actually. The victim told the Associated Press, “He just kept stabbing me and […]

The first three Bwog readers to email cuarts@columbia.edu by the end of the day can score a pair of free tickets to tonight’s Shout Out Out Out Out concert at the Tank (They’re from Canada!). Show starts at 8 down in Tribeca. Read the full description at CUArts.com.

The Village Voice has just released its list of the Ten Worst Landlords in New York City, and man oh man, are these guys jerks. The landlords profiled in this article evict tenants unfairly, cut off electricity without warning, and change the locks on 70 year-old diabetics while they are stuck in the hospital. One […]

Bwog reader John Shekitka reports there is an abundance of fireflies (or lightning bugs) darting around on South Lawn. Go catch some while a humid twilight descends.

Item! Somewhere in between stifling the urge to can the Supreme Court and accusing reporters of treason, President Bush has tapped the Business School’s resident inflation dove, Frederic Mishkin, to fill a spot on the Fed’s seven-member board of governors. Why does this matter, besides saving the students who made that music video commiserating with […]

Yes, Bwog is immature. But read the following and imagine for a second if your job was to be a pimp for South Asian cripples. Just for a second. Ok, done. ———- Forwarded message ———- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:23:09 -0700 (PDT) From: <—–@yahoo.com> To: ——@columbia.edu Subject: A request for help Hi [name omitted], […]

Facebook’s Prez Bo is now dead. May he rest in peace. -Thanks to Adrian Podpirka for the tip

Torrential rains in central Pennsylvania have forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. One intrepid Bwog correspondent reports from a river town in Bucks County, PA: A family of tourists wander down the road onto Main Street, which is almost completely empty except for a few store owners loading their merchandise into moving trucks. The family […]

What’s the point, exactly, of throwing a Coney Island-themed party on South lawn, complete with burgers, ice cream, a bounce house, a mini-lighthouse, and singing dogs? One eyewitness characterized it as a “fundraiser thingy,” but couldn’t figure out what the event this afternoon was trying to raise money for. Maybe just an acknowledgement that most […]

On June 13th, Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Shapiro won the BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Prize for his work, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599. Shapiro’s tome, a partial biography, details the 35-year old Bard as he works on As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. Herewith, the Bwog […]

Columbia has just posted its alcohol policy and rules for “pre-game initiatives” at Baker. And guess what? Free beer!*     *One cup per person per concession run, up to four concession runs permitted, only if you have two valid forms of ID [updated] with birthdate. You may only drink in specified areas during the […]

Quick! You have exactly 34 minutes to claim one of CUarts’ 20 free tickets to Joe’s Pub to see “various players” that have “quite a bit of punk -and- jazz cred” among them, tonight. Good luck.