If you have no idea what’s going on around Amsterdam and 113th right now, read our earlier post first. New updates: Multiple police barricades are set up around Amsterdam An NYPD helicopter has been sighted (and heard) roaming the skies. Bikers are coming up from Brooklyn and Queens to join the group. According to this group, […]

Hello again, legion of Bwog. It is once again safe for me to cease radio silence and let you in on the truth behind the lies. Blue Cheetah here with another hair-rising, tail-twitching, haunch-trembling discovery. My recent intel about Pupin Plaza may have been shocking, but get ready for a true revelation. This time I […]

Bwoggers Elizabeth Self and Lorna Hale, the two halves to Bwog’s Tastebuds, bring you their latest 2Girls1Snack adventure: Sweet Tea. Just drink and forget. Nantucket Nectars “Half & Half,” $1.79 An amusingly alliterative title does not a delicious drink make. We didn’t know that lemonade came in “brown.” This tasted like mislabeled lemonade and looked […]

Update: Here’s what actually happened, with photos. Apparently one of the motorcycle drivers in the crash and subsequent assault on the Henry Hudson Parkway last Sunday is being treated at St. Luke’s Hospital. Prepare for a bumpy ride. Public Safety Friends, I am writing to inform you that we are in receipt of information that there may […]

Notice everyone around you getting sick? Have hundreds of pages to read, and can’t afford to spend the day in bed? Go get your free flu vaccine from Columbia Health. They’ll be having “flu fairs” throughout October in convenient locations such as: The 6th floor of the International Affairs Building October 10th, 11am-2pm Jerome Greene Hall […]

Midterms already getting you down? Don’t worry we got you covered. Madysen Luebke, one of Bwog’s Arts Editors, has created this list of arts-related events to perk up you. Submit arts events you know of to events@bwog.com.   All Weekend Columbia School of the Arts Theatre Presents The WASPS, a play by Dianne Nora.  It’ll be […]

Apparently Dean Hinkson and Barnard’s Student Government Association have opened the roof of the Diana Center from 12:00-2pm today. That’s right, you are actually allowed to go on the roof. So hop on this intrepid sit-outsiders. Enjoy the weather. And don’t forget to thank your friendly SGA. Their first town hall is this Thursday, 6-8pm, […]

In today’s edition of Ask Bwog, we help you buy beer (or not buy beer) from the unlikeliest of sources. If you have any questions about anything, email tips@bwog.com or use our anonymous tip form. Dear Bwog, It was 1 am on a Saturday night (Sunday morning), and we desperately needed alcohol, so we made […]

So Justin Bieber was carried onto the Great Wall of China. This comes as no surprise. Kentucky Fried Chicken, known as KFC by the masses, has just released “Go Cups.” Now you can eat fried chicken and get in car crashes at the same time. The NYC Opera has filed for bankruptcy. Instead of going […]

Killer reporting from Spec‘s Abby Abrams confirms: the field hockey team was responsible for the hazing at ZBT. Writes Abrams, “The field hockey team was welcoming its new first-year players with an annual tradition: a fraternity crawl. The last stop of the night was Zeta Beta Tau.” Says one connected ZBT alumnus,“The women’s field hockey team […]

Aficionado of all things apocalyptic, CC sophomore Geoffrey Loss explains the government shut down for the laypeople among us and strongly recommends that you loot Westside while you can. Welcome to the world of tomorrow! And by tomorrow I mean today because yesterday we had a government and now we don’t. Some of you may have heard about […]

Last night on Twitter, fueled mostly by being lonely in Butler, Bwog decided to try a contest: Tweet us your cleverest Columbia-related government shutdown joke and maybe we'll give the writer of the best one a prize — Bwog (@bwog) October 1, 2013 Since then we’ve decided that, yes, we will give a prize to the […]

Same as every week: 9 p.m., chapel crypt, good things to eat. We’ll be finalizing content for the October issue and starting to pitch for December. New faces very welcome. Warm regards*, The Editors

Columbia football’s first home game of the season was this past Saturday. Bwog’s resident sports experts Akul Arora and Jeremy Sherman were there.  Heading into opening day at Robert K. Craft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Athletics Complex, there was a general consensus among fans: even though Columbia is an elite academic […]

Bwog fondly remembers: it was September 28, 2012, and we got an excited email from our buddies over at West Side Rag: the coming Alamo Drafthouse Theater at 100th and Broadway had applied for a liquor license.  Several months earlier, we wrote about the announced opening of this movie theater of lore: watch a movie, […]