The snowstorm blanketing much of the Mid-Atlantic kept a lot of your high school friends from flying home this weekend. (Times) The Parks Department officially invites you to go sledding in city parks; unfortunately, they will not be officially providing post-sledding hot chocolate with marshmallows. (Gothamist) While hosting last night’s episode SNL, James Franco french-kissed […]

On Low Plaza! Observers estimate 150 or so showed up for the midnight start, increasing to three or four hundred as the hour went on. And a panorama from our webmaster/photography specialist, Hans Hyttinen (click on it for a larger picture): Videos by John Kenney and Ron Gejman

It’s time for another installment of our exam season photo essays. The amount of paper crammed into a single desk never ceases to amaze:

First, there are several groups planning snowball fights tonight and tomorrow morning. One group’s taken to Facebook; feel free to add your own scheduled fights in the comments. A foot of snow doesn’t come around here every year. Second, if you are the owner of a motorcycle parked on 114th Street, it’s been towed. Seems […]

Storm’s blowing in, finals are blowing over, and Bwog movie maven Mark Hay has a few cinematic choices to accompany these first flakes of snow. Something about the vintage and the slightly outdated social norms of these films make them an endearing accompaniment to any night of cocoa and candy canes. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) […]

Photo by Chris Jordan

While we eagerly anticipate the dandruff of the gods this evening, it’s time for our semi-annual CarSplit PSA. Started by a SEAS ’06er, Carsplit uses cool computery things to help you share cabs with other students you don’t know on the way to the airport this winter break. It normally costs about $45 to get […]

How much snow will we see this weekend? Well, Bwog’s crack meteorology team has spent most of the day keeping an eye on the multiple forecasts pouring out of the National Weather Service, Accuweather, and Weather Underground computer models, and they report that the predicted amounts of snowfall keep climbing. What was a 1 to […]

Since its founding in 1964 by then-assistant chaplain Rev. John Cannon, Postcrypt Coffeehouse has remained “among a handful of really well run college venues of its kind.” Popular within the folk community both for the ridiculously cool space in St. Paul’s basement, and the dedicated crowds, the coffeehouse has hosted well-known artists such as Jeff […]

Hartley-Wallach overlord Scott Helfrich has a job for you today: Are you done with finals and interested in making some extra cash tomorrow morning?  Are you a fast, accurate typist with an eye to perfection? If you are done with finals (because this should not be a distraction) and are available to type highlighted sections […]

CC 2011 tells Bwog that they’ll be providing “40 pies of pizza from V&Ts starting at 1:00pm in the Broadway/Hogan first floor lounge. We’re celebrating our not having to take either the Lit Hum or CC exam!” Celebrate away, we say!

Selling unwanted items via flyers is hard enough. It’s even harder when “commenters” on said flyers don’t actually read the notice. See here for more details. Photo by HEH.

JTS held a screening and panel discussion of “Inglourious Basterds” yesterday. Sample quote: “Wow, that was fun…I’m not supposed to feel that way, I know — I’m Jewish.” (Times) Three family members were killed by a career criminal in an Upper West Side apartment; the attacker then fell to his death while trying to escape. […]

Multiple reports from the 209 front tell Bwog that about 10-30 people just entered 209 and played “YMCA.” A spate of vicious dancing ensued. Points to the merry pranksters for getting people to play along, with only a few points subtracted for being decked out in what several tipsters called “80s gear” and spandex. Unfortunately, […]

A proposed secret international treaty would greatly heighten penalties for copyright infringement, some threatening civil liberties.  SocketHop, the technology decoder for the literature-minded, takes a look. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced one year ago that the music industry would stop its broad lawsuits against alleged file sharers.  Since about 2003, […]