The Columbia theatre community sure has a knack for originality. It is to be admired that at least half of the shows one hears about are student written. Adding to the Columbia canon, Cassandra Adair takes audiences on a multi-faceted journey of loneliness and humor in the premiere of her play, “The Lonely Play (A Not-So-Lonely Play). […]

Thanksgiving can sometimes leave you with a stomach full of joy, but other times it can leave you wishing you were back at school. Bwog prepares you for the latter scenario in this week’s installment of Saturday Morning Cartoons. Brace yourselves readers, for the Thanksgiving from hell. Daryl Seitchik, BC ’12, showcases her gifted hand for elaborate […]

The Landmarks Preservation commission has still to make a decision on whether or not to build boundaries that encompass Morningside Heights, after much pressure from the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee. (Spec) Fox has decided to choose Netflix as its platform on which they will release a new season of Arrested Development in 2013. (The […]

Brown leather coach bag wallet and other stuff somewhere in EC last night. I could honestly care less about the bag but I really want my things back (my wallet had no money in it and is thus only of use to me and the other stuff is irreplaceable). Reward if returned. Feel free to […]

Just like that, the powers of CUIT that giveth and taketh have upgraded all student accounts from 250 MB to 1 GB, meaning you’ll now have more room for messages. The increased quota should be visible in the top bar of the CubMail page once you log in. As one CUIT official told us, you […]

MetamORCHESIS, the Orchesis 2011 fall showcase, premiers tonight at 9 pm and then plays again Sunday at 2 pm in Roone. Bwog’s favorite dance enthusiast, Renée Kraiem, snuck into Orchesis’ dress rehearsal Wednesday evening. In the first piece of MetamORCHESIS, choreographed by the show’s producer Victoria Pollack, BC ’12, a small group of graceful dancers strut […]

Admit it. You remember thinking during that one scene of The Social Network how badly you wanted an invite to that final club party. Well now, when people ask what parties are like at your school, you can leave them with this sublime expression: all-inclusive.  

It’s that weird point in the semester when your midterms are mostly over, and it’d be too soon to start studying for finals. In other words, it’s the perfect time to take a break from Butler, right? Wrong—for The Professional, at least. Join Amateur Anthropologist Brian Wagner as he chronicles yet another Butler Archetype. Color-coded […]

Wednesday evening, Columbia welcomed the self-proclaimed writer without style E.L. Doctorow to the Faculty House to deliver a lecture he called, “Notes on the History of Fiction.” The event was part of a two day symposium on fiction and histories. Postmodern enthusiast Allie Curry was in attendance: When I arrived mid-way through the panel, the crowd […]

It seems the ever-elusive man about town was spotted trying to blend in with students on Low Steps. How fast can you spot Waldo? If you think this one’s easy enough, check out the intermediate levels from last year after the jump.

In the past, we’ve covered the spectrum of cooking all the way from the cooking essentials to Morningside’s exquisite dishes. Last week we showed you how to whip together a mean white wine pasta. For our third installment of  Cooking with Bwog’s dorm chef challenge, we sent our campus-trotting chef Matt Powell to the kitchen […]

Arise freshpeople and sophpersons, for Mozart is calling. Well, actually it’s Professor Elaine Sisman, Chair of Music Humanities, who is giving this year’s Lit Hum and CC course-wide lecture entitled “Mozart’s Don Giovanni and the Literary Imagination.” Phone in sick to your internship, take an extra long lunch break, do whatever it takes. The lecture […]

In case you missed it last night, Athletics will allow the band to play at Saturday’s home game against Brown. The reversal came just hours after the Grey Lady ran a story with its own praises and criticisms (Spec, NY Times) United Color of Benetton vowed to bring together more than just overpriced knit sweaters. […]

That was quick! From within the blushing blue Low earlier tonight, PrezBo announced that the recent recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Medal, H. F. “Gerry” Lenfest (LW ’58), has pledged to donate $30 million to a new “multidisciplinary arts venue” in the now ever-growing Manhattanville campus (no wonder he received the award!). The new Lenfest […]

This week is OccupyCU’s Student Week of Action. Read on for Bwog resident #Occupier Jed Bush’s report on Day Three’s speak out and Day Four’s rally and march to Union Square, the latest in our ongoing coverage of this week’s events. Thursday: Today, OccupyCU participated in a student strike in solidarity with the OWS Day of Action, whose aims […]