When Bwog calls, our readers answer. Remarking on her fashion column in the Telegraph, we asked Bee Shaffer to settle the age-old question, the apple of discord that has been hurled into so many groups of friends, tearing them apart: New Balances or Converses? Bee writes in: Up until last year I wore New Balance […]

The Bwog just got a panicky email from CUArts. It turns out the beer for their 6-9pm party (632 W. 125th St., Rm. 205– just 9 blocks and downhill) arrived but the bottle opener didn’t. So. Free food and free beer but it’s BYOO.

T-2.5 hr. til the Varsity Show. If there’s at all a hole in your grueling weekend social schedule (ha!), swing by Roone and see the show. We promise it will be bwonderful and bwawesome and just the bwest.

Bwog correspondent Jacob Victor reports: Results are in from Wednesday’s College Dems E-board Elections! The winners are: (drum roll, please…) President: Mike Nadler CC ‘07 Vice President: Andrew Avorn CC ‘08 Secretary: Maggie Mendenhall BC ‘09 Treasurer: Chris Daniels CC ‘09 Members at Large: Josh Lipsy CC ‘08 Elyse Ross BC ‘09 Rachael McMillan CC […]

Bwog correspondent Yelena Shuster reports: There is an emergency water shutdown in Carman today from 10:30 AM-2:30 PM (see official email after the jump). Some unidentified suitemates, hauling their shower gear in Duane Reade bags, are stealthily walking over to Furnald to shower in the hall bathrooms. “What if someone has bladder problems?” muttered one […]

Harlem residents protest, fight to keep homes; students feel momentary sense of guilt en route to purchase Frappachino. You just HAD to make sure that your campus protest was more dramatic than ours, didn’t you, NYU? Sixteen people vie for thirteen seats on ABC Executive Board; three people poised to feel really, really, bad about […]

Apparently a group of kids in the group study room on the fourth floor of Butler have been doing handstands against the wall for the past twenty-five minutes. Which is probably in the sixtieth or so percentile in terms of weird shit that’s gone down in those rooms.

Taped to SGO doors in Lerner: Jester No distr. today – magazines did not come Tomorrow? Bwog was hoping that Jester would arrive today But it will survive Can’t wait? Check out the new issue online!

As most Columbia students struggle to remember which shirt they wore to 1020 last Saturday night so that they’ll know not to wear it this Thursday, first-year Bee Shaffer, scion of legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour, has her sights set on something higher: the Met’s swanky Costume Institute Ball. And another thing, dearer to Bwog’s […]

The Highlander, Highland, NC’s local paper, has a long and touching article about Barnard senior Lexie Knox, who made the town of Cashier, NC her second home.

Girl and Boy at John Jay. Girl looks at Boy’s apple juice: Girl: What kind of drink is that? Boy (sarcastically): It’s my own urine…no, it’s apple juice. Girl takes a sip: You’re right, it is apple juice.

Remember coming to Columbia and thinking that you would do fun, exciting things in the city? Right, we don’t either. But tonight, there is an opportunity to redeem yourself: What: A party in the subway! When: 1 AM tonight (Thursday night/Friday morning) Where: Downtown Q Platform, 34th Street/Herald Square Station Theme: EXTREME LOVE (Dress accordingly) […]

In which staffer Mark Krotov gives movie suggestions for those who fear to venture off the 1, 2, and 3 lines. AMC Loews 84th Street 6 84th and Broadway RV Remember how Robin Williams was really annoying in the confines of a hospital? Now imagine him trapped in an RV. Features hilarious sewage fountains. Stick […]

…or so says a flock of neighborhood residents and students in biohazard t-shirts protesting right now in a police-barricaded rectangle outside the gates at 116th. Pants suited journalists, angry community activists, and bemused passersby found good company on the sidewalk. But Bwog did feel slightly sorry for earnest Young Spartacist manning a little table outside […]

Overheard near Hamilton: A young girl, and a grown man with a dog. Man with dog: Hey, how are you? Girl: I’m good, how are you? Man: Fine. Girl: What’s your dog’s name? Man: Chloe. Girl: Hey, Chloe! [girl pets dog] Man: Say hi, Chloe. [dog is quiet] Come on Chloe! Say hi! [Dog does […]