This past weekend, the Barnard Theatre Department put on a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull in Minor Latham Playhouse. Bwog’s in-house theater critic discusses the success of subtlety in the show.  Theater shouldn’t come in screaming its intention, tearing off its clothes to reveal itself. It also can’t try for complete obscurity, babble incoherently, […]

General Studies Dean Peter Awn sent out his usual Thanksgiving message to the GS student body today, and as usual, he induced laughter hard enough to leave one short of breath as he ventured through Paris with a turkey. Because we love you so much, we’re sharing his hilarity. Happy (early) Thanksgiving, Columbia! Dear Students, […]

This semester is almost over (pheww…), but for a select few people, that means their time at Columbia will soon be over too. Fortunately, some of them will get a final chance to shine and spread their wisdom across the Columbia community, from Low to Butler and back: Bwog is now accepting nominations for fall […]

The grand jury in charge of Officer Darren Wilson’s case did not indict him for his fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Racial tensions and distrust of law enforcement are high among residents in Ferguson and around the country. Is this a step back in the fight against racism? (Kansas City Star/AP) Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has […]

If you’ve ever passed Oren’s on Broadway, you’ve likely noticed the chess master(s) who hang out over there. One of these guys is Adhemar Ahmad, and he’s written a book on the subject. Tonight is your chance to catch him and get a copy signed — head over to Book Culture tonight at 7pm. Go […]

For the past three months, Bwog has been closely following the evolution of this year’s Varsity Show—from preliminary interviews to the long-awaited announcement of the C-Team, it’s yet another 20-something day of a fall semester month and V-Show has perhaps the biggest announcement for us yet. Congratulations to the V121 Cast, in alphabetical order! Gabrielle Bullard, BC […]

Some really, really good people and fellow students are using the days leading up to Thanksgiving to maximize the amount of extra meal swipes we’ll all have as we venture home to our kitchen pantries and to Mom’s best Thanksgiving meal yet. For any day this week until you go home to the distant upstate […]

It’s socially confirmed that Hillary Clinton will announce that she’s in the running to get the Democratic nomination for president, but the Republicans aren’t so clear or united on who will go up against all that pantsuit power. (NY Times) We’re unsure as to why Sea World wants to celebrate that they’ve just successfully created […]

If you don’t have the privilege of seeing/hearing/smelling hordes of frat guys doing whatever it is frat guys do every weekend, you must not live by the Beta house. After being pushed to his limit, one resident of Watt has proposed a challenge to the fraternity in the following letter: Dear Beta, During the course of the past few months, living […]

Further honoring our loving relationship with our mother magazine, The Blue and White, we present one of the mag’s monthly campus characters, Ridge Montes, SEAS ’15, an RA who has managed to win the housing lottery by scoring digs in EC for the past three years, written by staff writer Jen Sluka, CC ’17. Be sure to […]

Whether you decide to celebrate Columbus’ slaughtering of the natives Turkey Day or not, Daily Editor Mason Amelotte recommends you take a moment to reflect on the true nature of Thanksgiving: sex puns. Indeed, Thanksgiving is the only holiday (other than Presidents’ Day, but that’s a different story) where sex jokes can should run rampant in a family setting. Wondering who the real kinky […]

Looks like Netflix wins again. Everyone’s favorite media streaming service just bought the rights to Tina Fey’s new show, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, after originally being developed for NBC, which means you probably won’t have to wait 13 fucking weeks a long time to finish an entire season. (The Verge) The world is working towards getting a little less racist, […]

A student tour guide was overheard singing the praises of Columbia’s fitness offerings near the entrance to Dodge: “We have all kinds of sports and activities, including yoga and aerobics—like what middle-aged moms do.” The tipster noted that the group was mostly middle aged moms and their kids. This might not be what they mean when they […]

Rounding out our reproductions from our dear mother magazine, The Blue and White, check out Senior Editor Luca Marzorati’s, CC ’15, review of The Alphabets of Life: A Simple Guide to Living Simply by La-Verna J. Fountain, Columbia’s Vice President for Construction Business Services and Communications (in other words, the woman who fields all of the media […]

Good news! A study by the CDC of 138,100 U.S. adults has found that 90 percent of Bwog staffers heavy drinkers are not actually alcoholics. If that has you feeling at all good about the state of humanity, an outbreak of bubonic plague has struck Madagascar, killing forty and threatening to spread further. But, hey, a survey […]