Trim up the trees with Christmas stuff Like bingle balls, and whofoo fluff Trim up the town with goowho gums and bizilbix and wums – Doctor Seuss It’s time again for Columbia’s most festive tradition, the Tree Lighting Ceremony! Leave your dark miserable studying and revel in our campus’s wintery beauty. From the Facebook event: […]

A tipster outside of Schermerhorn 501 overheard someone grappling with one of life’s toughest problems: I mean, I *like* him, but it’s like, why are your lips so hard? Ouch. Lip compatibility is essential to a healthy relationship. This could be a deal breaker. Luscious stock model lips via Shutterstock

The Columbia Greenmarket is positively abuzz with activity this week. You’re going to want to drop by the information station to meet new market manager, Kelly Faust. Bwog will definitely be there, trying to make a good impression. As always debit, credit and EBT are accepted, so go check out these new arrivals: A garlic/ […]

Everyone’s worst email-related-fear became a reality during NYU’s recent Replyallcalypse. We at Columbia would never be so foolish, right? (NYU Local) There was not a single violent crime reported in New York City on Monday. Has Public Safety become obsolete? (BBC) Lindsay Lohan, famed for her acting’s “distinctive blend of voracity and innocence, of will […]

In this latest installment of “The Conversation,” senior editor Claire Sabel speaks with the director of WKCR-FM, Ben Young, CC ’92. Young is known at Columbia’s student-run station by the moniker HBA. From this vantage point, the jazz historian has overseen generations of student programmers serve, as he once did and continues to do, the station’s […]

Last night, Deans Shollenberger and Martinez attempted once again to gather community input on the fate of Columbia’s newest residential acquisition, the former St. Hilda’s House convent on 113th. Seeing as Bwog and Spec were joined by no less than two legitimate voices of the “community,” the event was less a conversation and more a […]

Breaking: Lerner is useful for something, because that’s where the TIC is located, and it can hook you up with your fix of these addicting upcoming performances. Campus events: NOMADS presents American Ghosts. Friday, Saturday at 8 pm. $2-5. CMTS presents Candide. Friday, Saturday at 8 pm. $5-10. Orchesis presents Gimme gimme mOrchesis. Thursday, Friday at 10:30 […]

After receiving the intriguing news from  AHinks that “an independent feature film will be shooting scenes on the Barnard campus,” Bwog has been furiously searching for more info. Although Barnard could only tell us that  “the story is female-driven, and the director and cast are highly regarded,” Bwog managed to scrape together a few clues […]

When you’re sufficiently cold after tomorrow’s Tree Lighting, the Block RAs will warm you with free food and cheer at their Open Mic Night from 9:30 pm to midnight in the Broadway 1st Floor Lounge. Seasonal goodies will include pumpkin pie, cider, and cookies, but don’t fret if you don’t/can’t eat gluten, meat, or dairy—they’ll […]

So maybe finals start in just a few weeks, and maybe you’re regretting those nights you spent going wild at frat parties eating Ben & Jerry’s and watching a movie in your room. Still, there’s no need to become a Butler zombie to make up for lost time yet, as Bwog’s Arts Editor Kyra Bloom has […]

The smells of free chili, rice, and cake will rise into the air and the Brooklyn electronic group “Blank Paper” might rise to sheer stardom. Since Flannery O’Connor wrote that “everything that rises must converge,” we should’ve seen Live at Lerner’s final Sounds event of the semester coming! What’s not to love about free food […]

The scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are at it again. This time, they’ve discovered a “liquidlike wave of gluons.” Next up: a giddy gaggle of geeks will gulp gin in Geneva. (NBC) Angus T. Jones, Jake from “Two and a Half Men,” apologized for his harsh criticism of the show on Monday. Next up: […]

specsucks is a blog that thinks that the Spec sucks that began last academic year. Bwog and Spec have officially ignored specsucks’s monomaniacal posts and tweets. But today specsucks posted photos “from a secret specsucks ritual,” in which they made a pentagram out of copies of The Eye, burned it, and put a dagger through it. You […]

SGA met in the dark of the night yesterday in the glowing, open space that is the Diana Center Café. Waiting there with bated breath was Barnard Bureau Chief Renée Kraiem and below, as usual, is her report. Last night’s SGA meeting featured its first administrative guest in quite some time, VP of Campus Services […]

If you’ve always wanted to live the The Devil Wears Prada dream and work for a magazine, fret no more. Tonight is the Blue & White’s meeting, your opportunity to make all your dreams come true. We’ll be pitching content for next semester and start assigning writers and researchers. As always, it’ll take place at […]