Late last night, Bwog was ushered into the back room of Havana, usually reserved for drunken revelry and awkward hook-ups, for a different sort of party—The 120th Annual Varsity Show’s West End Preview. Although it still had its share of awkward premises and jokes that fell flat, we should note that we’re going to be […]

Bwog was just tipped that there is a manhole on fire on the corner of 113th and Broadway. As of now, the street is closed off. Residents along 113th street smell smoke, and firetrucks are on the scene. We’ll update as we hear more.

PSA: Lena Dunham is judging Quarto’s nonfiction writing contest this semester. We repeat, Lena Dunham. Regardless of your taste/distaste for her, she’s at the very least “a voice of a generation” (yes we quoted that line. Of course we quoted that line), and we know there was at least one week in 2012 when Girls […]

The results from the SGA grant proposal are in: the Diana roof will now be open full-time for “recreational purposes.” Although a seemingly simple concept, opening the room actually requires installing a ten-foot high fence, which will cost between $50,000 and $60,000. It’ll be partly subsidized by the Barnard administration, but the project, the first […]

Charlyne Yi, she of House, Knocked Up, and Paper Heart fame, is coming to Columbia! In Live at Lerner’s first “evening” program of 2014, she’s speaking/making you laugh for two hours tonight at 8 in Lerner Party Space. In case you didn’t know (as if), she’s cool and hilarious and once hung out with Fred […]

Midterms slowly destroying your soul? Rejuvenate it at some of this week’s local cultural happenings, brought to you by resident artiste and arts editor Madysen Luebke. Ongoing: That’s  right, V-Day is finally here with their annual performance of The Vagina Monologues.  However, this time the performance has a controversial cast of all “self-identified women of color.”  So […]

New CBO study shows that increasing minimum wage might increase paychecks, but also decrease jobs. Well, duh. (NPR) The guy who shot someone at a Walmart isn’t being charged because he claimed self-defense.  (NY Daily News) City council in Stoke-On-Trent wants to text its overweight citizens. Tax dollars at their finest. (Slate) NPR’s got the […]

Ben Kornick’s spot as CCSC 2016 representative was up for the grabs Sunday night, when Daphne Chen announced Kornick’s resignation from his position for “personal reasons.” CCSC just released a statement announcing that the elections to fill the vacancy will be direct, and that interested candidates can register here. A major issue in the recent deliberations between […]

Psyched for Dig Inn’s big opening tomorrow? Neighborhood food-lover and wannabe connoisseur Tatini Mal-Sarkar brings you reviews of pre-opening night at what might soon be your new favorite food spot in Morningside Heights. If you’ve walked down Broadway at any point in the last couple months (read: if you go to Columbia and literally, literally […]

Bwog is getting to be sick of SparkNotes, which seems to be lacking a lot of key core texts (we’re looking at you, Herodotus).  Lucky for us, we recently learned that Rap Genius’s poetry site has a section devoted to Columbia’s Core texts. Although most of them only have annotations on the first few books, there […]

Do you like writing? Are meetings your calling? Are you enchanted by the colors blue and white? If you answered yes to any of these questions (and even if you didn’t), come to the Blue and White meeting tonight at 9 pm in St. Paul’s Chapel. Come to discuss pitches for the upcoming issue, to […]

Always honoring our mother magazine, The Blue and White, we present another preview from the February 2014 issue, on campus now. Staff Writer Michelle Cheripka, CC ’16, gives us this account of uptalk, or “the linguistic equivalent of passing a joint around.” “This might be stupid and I don’t know where I’m going with this yet, […]

Ever since the scary blossoming days of NSOP, a rumor has circulated around saying that Barnard students are only able to eat at Columbia dining halls 5 times a week. After a few days of eating Hewitt, any Barnard student could recognize that the once delicious pizza grows old, and the mysterious meat options never […]

Please tell us you remember George and Harold from the childhood classic Captain Underpants, because it looks like they somehow made their way to sophomore year of college. Personally, we might have preferred “Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport” or “LOL Ass Wipe Stop It.”

We’re getting really tired of your shit, weather. (New York Daily News) The U.N. declared numerous acts carried out by North Korea crimes against humanity in a 400-page report. The U.N panel directly implicated Kim Jong Un, warning him that he may be accountable in the future. (USA Today) USA, USA! (Science World Report) A […]