The entire lineup of CU Records has been slated for a showcase at the CMJ Music Marathon! This Saturday, Night Eyes, MJWaterFire, Jake Snider, Tara Priya, and Life Size Maps will be performing at 7 p.m. at the Charleston. Give your midterm-addled brain a break and head down to Brooklyn to check them out for […]

Columbia history Ph.D. student Megan Doherty strikes back at Glenn Beck. (HuffPo) Taiwanese CGI animates those creepy bed bugs that have been taking over our lives! (Gothamist) Riding the subway can often be a trial. Subway door-standers don’t make things any better. (City Room) Maryland company rents drug-sniffing dogs to paranoid parents. (Gawker) This year’s […]

This year’s Relay for Life is Candyland-themed, and tonight they’re hosting their “Caramel Apples and Candy in Carman” event in the Carman basement lounge at 9pm. Let’s stuff our faces with free caramel apple slices, candy, popcorn and soda! Woo! Photo via Flickr

This scarecrow guards the cover crops of Columbia’s food sustainability project, a communal garden that produces real vegetables in front of Pupin. People tend it year round, and actually eat the fruits of the  Columbia soil.

Carolyn Ruvkun horsed around with the Equestrians and wielded swords with the Kendokas, but no club has quite kicked her ass like Parkour. Ninjas walk among us. For the members of the Columbia University Parkour Club, New York City is a jungle gym with endless opportunities for death-defying jumps, leaps and tumbles. Parkour combines philosophy […]

The Columbia/NYU electronic band Night Eyes, which also recently made a fun flashlight-lit video, released its first EP called “Exhale” yesterday. The first 150 to download it from bandcamp get it for FREE, or you could pay $3.96 for it on iTunes. While you’re busy downloading, relive last year’s College Walk of Shame (not the […]

Delights at the Greenmarket this week! Lavender is back and 115th smells like heaven. There’s fresh fish at American Seafood on 116th. Start planning your Thanksgiving shopping early if you’re unlucky enough to be stuck in Morningside for the holiday: the Greenmarket will be open on Tuesday the 23rd instead of Thanksgiving Thursday. There are […]

Don’t feel bad if everyone around you is frowning. Secretly, they’re probably pretty happy! (City Room) The ever-tormented Floridita is unsatisfied with its mystery “attractive relocation space.” (NY Mag) Celebrate your Columbia experience with this charming souvenir mug. (Zazzle) Surprise! A mosaic from 1901 was discovered behind the walls at the 1 train station at […]

Overheard outside Butler: “Excuse me do you know what is it?” “It’s so weird!” “Dude, what the fuck.”

The 2011 CC and SEAS Class Councils, together with Balfour Class Rings will be in the 2nd floor EC lounge tonight!  At 8pm they will be handing out free pizza and soda—as well as selling class rings.  Feel it, 2011?  Feel the nostalgia coming on? Image via Wikimedia

Kristina Beedzakova, SEAS ’12, spotted this lonely panda bear sitting abandoned on the Low Steps. This tugs at Bwog’s heart strings.

Today, Finn Vigeland, CC’14, has his crossword puzzle published in the New York Times. He uses a pen, never a pencil, to do puzzles. “If you can’t do it in pen,” he told Bwog, “don’t do the puzzle.” Bwog chatted with Finn about the art of the crossword and how he finally got published. Every […]

Alternating Wednesdays is when Bwog shares all the good things to be had at the TIC. Here goes. Tickets sold for on-campus events this past week: 1050 Around Morningside: Walkabout Yeolha: October 20th-23rd, Wednesday-Friday 8p, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Riverside Theater, FREE w/CUID. Tickets. The Physicists!: October 21st & 23rd, Thursday 8pm, Saturday 3pm & […]

Several weeks ago Dylan Lonergan CC ’13, Legislative Assistant of the Senate Student Affairs Committee, compliled this ROTC Briefing as well as these ROTC Supplemental Materials.  They explain what ROTC is, its history with the school, and several ROTC systems at other institutions.  Produced on behalf of the SSAC, they are being distributed to student […]

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor of our own CU Orchestra, debuted yesterday as conductor of the LA Philharmonic, for the concert “Green Umbrella: Bang on a Can.” A federal judge in California overturned DADT, and has ordered military recruiters to start accepting gay recruits. (NYT) The J-School is making a news outlet website for NYC. (NY Convergence) […]