Rain checks… they’re catching on. The annual Chicano Caucus Cinco de Mayo celebration on Low was postponed from this Sunday, April 24th, to next Sunday, May 1st on Revison Plaza (the plaza overlooking Amsterdam) because of the promised rain that looks highly unlikely to fall at this point. Colors via Wikimedia

Reasons why these days are not the best days: Parts of the world are at risk from nuclear fallout. Yet another fun/terrifying way to use Google Earth. (Fast Company/Arcade Fire) Columbia dramatically scales back its new public school for those affected by its multi-billion-dollar expansion, angering residents. Does this surprise you? (DNAinfo) NYU’s hawk Bobby […]

Le Bal Masquerade de College Days is tonight, and though Bwog’s inner francophile cringes at the butchered French of its title, it actually sounds like a pretty good time. Hosted by CCSC in Roone Arledge Auditorium from 9 pm to 1 am (Woo, partying past midnight—we really are in college!), this bal masqué marks the […]

Most people like to eat. Most people do not like to spend money, hence our free food tips. A great lover of free food has been revealed to us and now reports regularly on the quality, quantity, and pizazz of free food events around campus. Read on as The Scrounger goes green at the Ecopalooza. […]

Last night, NOMADS presented Sylvia Khoury’s (CC ’12) original play—Park Beautification. Bwog’s resident philosopher of fine arts Alex Jones now reports. The play was performed in a basement room of St. Paul’s Chapel that looked like it was designed to display art, not host theater. For as unexpectedly cold a night as it was, that […]

Please note that Dean Peña-Mora does not endorse the content of this video. But…OMG.

Sometimes, the email (with a few friendly edits) pretty much says it all: Folksters young and old, fat and slim, tall and short, hobos and tramps, musically inclined and tone deaf alike!!!!!!! FOLK FEST IS TODAY from 4-9 pm!!! Come to Wien Courtyard to hear TEN freakin’ mind-blowing performances by some of our very most […]

As you’ve probably figured out by now, we at Bwog just can’t get enough of free food. Once we’ve stepped off campus, though, we’ve noticed that free food opportunities are few and far between. While some might argue that this is reason enough to never leave the Morningside Bubble, we’d like to think there’s more […]

We’re on the homestretch, friends. Just one more week of classes before finals doom! We know work’s piling up, and you’ve got three seminar papers to write and a thesis to finish, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take the time to stop and smell the roses check out some ‘toons. Gotta keep those priorities […]

Though this article refers to real people who live in apartments, the same logic holds true for dorms. Stop buzzing signing in random “Columbia students”—they could be robbing you blind! (City Room) Gamers, don’t let the Man tell you World of Warcraft is lame—it could help you find love. (NYT) A leaked memo from the […]

Bad news for lovers of Hindu festivals that involve people dumping paint one another! Tomorrow’s planned celebration of Holi has been postponed until next week on account of weather, so please do not go to Ancel Plaza tomorrow and start throwing paint at random people! Instead, why not check out Bwog’s past coverage of Holi? […]

Tonight is CQA’s Last Friday, a drag pageant and First Friday-style dance combo. The drag pageant kicks off at 9:30 pm tonight, and the dance immediately follows at around 11 pm. Tickets for the dance are available through TIC for $5, but there’s an official loophole: anyone who attends the drag pageant can just stay for […]

The new issue of Columbia’s undergraduate literary magazine Quarto is debuting tonight, but faux-high-society snobbery is not all that’s offered. Contributing writers to this issue of the magazine will read their pieces aloud to a crowd of admirers. Meanwhile, munch on some homemade free cookies. There’s even matzah pizza for those limited to unleavened snacks. […]

This is just not Café 212’s week. After being hit with 62 violations in a recent health inspection, the store flooded and has now been closed for “maintenance.” A tipster reports that he saw a man in a face mask and what looked like a mop right outside the store. No word on when it […]

Tonight, you can see a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome in an appropriately neoclassical context if you head to the Low Steps at 7:30 pm for a special showing of the classic movie Gladiator. It’s all part of CCSC’s bizarrely road trip-themed College Days, which is now apparently in Hollywood. In addition […]