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, […]

Someone call CCE, because boy have we got a job for you.  Posted on an EC bulletin board, some Barnard senior is  putting together a coalition of “fucking brilliant and chill” classmates in order to make boatloads of money and “capitalize on each other’s work ethic.” Bwog is unsure as to the business model being […]

Student-Worker Solidarity is on another campaign—last year it was Faculty House, and now it’s working conditions in John Jay dining hall. According to SWS’s release, they delivered a petition (circulated as a Google) to dining director Vicki Dunn. It called for “proper ventilation and AC” in the dining hall. Dunn “claimed that these changes would […]

Live at Lerner returns for a second show! Little Anchor plays today at noon in the Piano Lounge at Lerner. There will be some New England-themed food as well (apple slaw, yellow beet salad, seafood chowder, and shepherd’s pie, they say). Bwog presents Little Anchor:

Happy October! The government is shutting down because they can’t make decisions on the budget and Obamacare. Who’d have known? (NYT) Lorde finally released her new album, Pure Heroine. Do you like it? Did you see her play live last night? Are you going to her show tonight? Can Bwog buy your ticket? (USA Today) If you […]

Bwog is a big music fan, especially of our own student music but lets face it: our weekends are sometimes too full of getting shwasty doing homework to come out and support every show.  Thankfully, Bwog’s Britt Fossum took some time out of her weekend to enjoy a performance by a couple of Columbia bands. Morningsiders […]

Do you like acting? What about writing? And directing? Procrastinating on YouTube? Flowcharts? Bwog’s unbeatable video team– very creatively named Bwog Video– is having a meeting tonight at 9:15 pm in the Lerner Piano Lounge. Come by to pitch an idea, sign up for a project, or just see what all the fuss is about. […]

We started hearing about this Lion Credit Union Initiative (LCUI) and sent Credit Caper Sanat Kapur to investigate. To start with, what is a credit union? It’s a bank, except it’s not run by a bunch of profit hungry executives who don’t care about usually broke college students; it’s run by usually broke college students […]