Have you ever wanted to work as a street-food vendor along the avenues and alleys of New York? Have you ever wished to be self-reliant in your salty snack cravings? Have you ever just desired…to eat a pretzel? Well, Bwog has, and tonight at 6pm in the Rennert Hall lobby, our dreams are coming true. […]

Sometimes we forget, but Columbia has some freaking awesome stuff.  In our efforts to remind ourselves of this, we bring you a new series: Bwog Goes Deep, in which we find cool shit in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and tell you about it.  Chances are you immediately deleted it, but last week an […]

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly… timey-wimey… stuff.” – Doctor Who A sign post from the 1939 World’s Fair, found in the basement of Philosophy.

From the Orientation issue of The Blue and White: Somer Omar sat down in Low Library to talk with some of the Trustees about their role at the University. The Blue and White will hold the semester’s second open meeting tonight, at 9 p.m. in the crypt of St. Paul’s Chapel. Setting: The King’s College […]

Breaking News: College students don’t always earn salaries they want; blame it on their alma mater. Columbia’s Andrew Delbanco reports. (NYT) The situation in Syria is still unclear, but it appears U.S.-funded weapons may now be reaching Syrian rebels. (NPR) An Egyptian court has frozen the assets of top Muslim Brotherhood officials, although the freeze […]

After hating some charming soccer players for crushing the housing game last semester, Bwog editor Alexandra Svokos decided to see them in action at their home opener against Iona College on Saturday. I had this grand image in my head: a group of friends at Baker in painted faces and Columbia gear, cheering wildly in […]

It was a regular party yesterday evening in the Satow room. Joseph Milholland was the guest of honor. The first CCSC meeting of the school year was full of brainstorming and plans, but at the year’s second gathering, the real business began. After a quick icebreaker where the council member stated the first word that […]

Vampire Weekend once wrote a song. It mentioned a falafel place not too far from here. Musical anthropologist Lauren Beltrone investigated. “Sing next year in Jerusalem/You know—the one at 103rd and Broadway…” Ok Ezra, if you insist. Aside from being brilliant, Vampire Weekend’s newest album “Vampires of the City” also includes a local restaurant recommendation […]

Just for you, on this depressingly overcast Monday, we’re bringing you an overseen by the McBain elevators. Spotted by a tipster, some misplaced lingerie: Perhaps just a laundry mishap?

In your quest to take your parents out on one more expensive meal before they leave, you may have noticed that good old Vareli, while keeping the exact same appearance, sneakily changed its name to Domain. Changes. What does this mean for you and future family visits? Restauranteurs Marcus Levine and Alison Herman find out. […]

Get it together, NYC cops. (Again.) In other news, one more excuse not to hit up Times Square. (New York Times). “Vertically challenged:” this is probably the best/worst reason we’ve ever seen for not riding a Citi bike. Those damn tall-biased bike planners (Gothamist). DON’T WORRY: it looks like Justin Bieber’s obnoxious Instagram was probably […]

Happy Sunday night! For the first time this semester, Bwog trooped over to Butler to ask random and personal questions to the brave/academically dedicated souls who were already spending their evenings there. (Full disclosure: Bwog hasn’t been to a library this year except to buy a Naked smoothie.) We asked the people, “What are you […]

Another school year, another season of Columbia Athletics.  Max Rettig brings you the week’s highlight: The Lady Lions beat Fordham yesterday in the Columbia Invitational’s second day by a score of 3-1. Moye-McLaren put up a double-double (kills and digs, not points and rebounds). Three frosh-girls also pitched in for the Lion victory, with Jennifer […]

The Wanted actually wrote this song from Bwog’s perspective and it’s about us being glad you came to our meeting. No sexual double entendres, just us prospectively celebrating your attendance at 7 pm in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner. Bring your ideas, your burning desire to write/design graphics/to punch us in the […]

~What you’ve all been waiting for~ The official candidate list for Fall 2013 CCSC and ESC Elections is out. But first, some general information about the elections: There will be both a CCSC Debate and ESC Debate held in Lerner on Sunday September 22nd. There will be pizza. Campaigning will start on Wednesday, September 18th at 9 am. […]