A late-night email (4:17 am, to be exact) from producers Ally Engelberg and Laura Quintela let us know what lovely characters will be making up this years’ “Veesh”: Principals: Rebecca Farley CC ’16 Ethan Fudge CC ’15 Olivia Harris CC ’14 Molly Heller GS/JTS ’15 Jonah Weinstein CC ’16 Ensemble: Scott Bacon GS ’13 Ankeet […]

In our presbuscent years, we craved (and maybe still do secretly crave) boy bands.  Although One Direction may not have much staying power, the boy band prototype will endure for years to come. (NYTimes) Popping your umpteenth Tums? No need to be gastro-intestinally shackled to antacids for indigestion relief—eliminating and adding certain foods from your diet can solve […]

Yesterday, The New York Times published an article alleging that Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University sociology professor, seriously misused school fundings. In a statement emailed to Bwog, Professor Venkatesh called the article “upsetting.” He writes that somebody within the admininstration  leaking private documents to the media makes it hard to fully trust “the integrity of […]

This Thursday night, around fifteen Barnard women gathered around the fireplace stark, white, postmodern wall of the Diana Center’s Judith Shapiro Faculty Dining Room to discuss whether or not women can have it all with a woman at Barnard who seems to have gotten pretty close: President Debora Spar. Bwog sent its Barnard Bureau Chief, […]

Today the Upper West Side can celebrate the grand opening of a restaurant that’s Legen–wait for it—dary. Legend, a Chinese food cornerstone of Chelsea’s culinary scene, is opening a new location in the old Rack n Soul space on 258 W 109th Street. Even though Bwog’s already spent 90% of its allowance for the year, […]

An article in The New York Times appearing in print tomorrow contains shocking allegations of a money-misuse scandal at Columbia. Professor of Sociology Sudir Venkatesh appears to have been internally investigated for illicitly spending over $200,000 in school funds, and paid back only $13,000. An excerpt from The New York Times gives the details: All told, the auditors listed […]

Let’s not lie—after seeing The Hunger Games, you realized you would be roughly a million times cooler if you learned to shoot a bow and arrow. Today, Columbia’s Varsity Archery Team is there to help you achieve that goal. From 12 to 3 PM in the Lefrak Gym, you can go shoot a real bow […]

With December officially upon us, we can look forward to delicious hot chocolate, holiday lights, and the end of the world as we know it. The countdown to the Mayan end of days has officially begun and Bwog would like to remind you to make the next 21 days count! (PC Mag) As a broke […]

The annual tree-lighting ceremony was yesterday evening, and for those of you who missed it, sassy cider-sipper Julia Goodman was on the scene. Last night, we got a pleasant reminder that the holidays are quickly approaching. Taking a break from rabid finals studying, I joined what looked to be the majority of the student population […]

CMTS’s Candide will be performed again at the Lerner Black Box tonight and tomorrow at 8 pm.  Last night, Alexandra Svokos checked out the premiere. As Shelley Farmer, BC’14, director of Candide says in her playbook note, the show is “a nightmare to stage.”  With wars, castles, and locales from Uruguay to Portugal to Turkey, it is […]

The fall production of theater group NOMADS (New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students), American Ghosts, premiered last night in the Glicker-Milstein blackbox theatre, located on LL2 of the Diana Center; the show runs through Saturday, with performances beginning at 8 pm and running a little over an hour. Bwog’s Meandering Medium Marcus Levine […]

Orchesis: A Dance Group presents their Fall Showcase, Gimme Gimme MOrchesis, in Roone Arledge Auditorium tonight at 10:30, and tomorrow again at 8:30 P.M. Bwog sent its resident Roone Rebel Rouser Renée Kraiem to the dress rehearsal and here’s what she reported back. If Gimme Gimme MOrchesis sets out to, in fact, give us more, […]

At 4pm today, Columbia University Fencing will be competing in their one and only home meet of the season. This is your chance to witness one of the most successful teams at Columbia out in full force. If you’ve ever had an interest in fencing, have a love for long pointy objects, or if you’ve […]

Here are the winners of the brownstones formerly known as AEPi, Pike, and PsiU: Alpha Chi Omega Lambda Phi Epsilon Q House While this is great news for these three organizations—having been without a house for so long—it comes as a blow to AEPi and Pike as they were trying to earn their houses back.  Dean […]

The Culinary Contrarian is back, this time visiting a Chinese restaurant and an oyster-heavy establishment, eventually finding fulfillment in a test of the oyster shots at 169 Bar. Everyone needs to get away from campus now and then. Whether it’s because you yearn for novel experiences, or because a particular chair in Butler is perfectly […]