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 […]

In the wake of the Black Friday Shopocalypse, a wave of fast-food employee protests began yesterday, with demonstrators chanting, “Hey, hey, what do you say? We demand fair pay.” (NYT) While Obama was trying not to fall off the fiscal cliff, Joe Biden took some time off to do his holiday shopping at Washington, D.C.’s first Costco. […]

In this cross between AskBwog and BwogSex, we advise Edward what to do when Bella says “Jacob” in her sleep take a deep look into the psyche.  Send your questions (and stories!) to sex@bwog.com. Hey Bwog, Is it a big deal if my boyfriend said his ex-girlfriend’s name while he was asleep? Yours confusedly, I’m […]

Eric Foner, Professor of History and author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, gave his take on Spielberg’s Lincoln in a letter to the NYT sent earlier this week. Apparently, Hollywood’s latest take on the Great Emancipator takes some liberties. “The film,” he writes, “grossly exaggerates the possibility that by January 1865 the […]

Tomorrow night, starting at 7: 30, WBAR’s 3rd annual Winter Formal, Goth Cruise, will be setting sail from the Diana Event Oval.  Goth/formal dress is encouraged, and a goth first mate and captain will be named. The show will feature: A rare performance of the bouncy, harmonized post-punk of Household whose 2011 Items was one of the year’s best records; […]

Melissa Smey, director of the Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre, just sent an email to everyone on the CUArts listserv announcing forthcoming changes to the Arts Initiative. The changes, made in response to the “Save the Arts Initiative” campaign, come just 2 days after Prezbo told a fireside chat audience that he was looking into […]

Are you as hungry as the hyenas from The Lion King? Well, stick with Bwog and you’ll never go hungry again! At 8pm in Lerner 503, you can get free food from Camp Kesem’s third general body meeting and second counselor information session. Open Mic Night is from 9:30 to midnight in the Broadway 1st […]

In the latest World Leaders Forum, cohosted by Maison Francaise and the School of the Arts, Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor in the French Embassy in the U.S., and recently resigned National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman, in his final public appearance in the position, discussed their respective country’s relations between the government and […]

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 […]