Second breakfast, charcoal, and quaintness – it’s yours on Sunday morning. It’s all thanks to a school spirit organization, a women’s college, and an outdated, ye-olde-style philosophical debate group. First on the agenda this morning, WBAR has their annual WBAR-B-Q on Lehman Lawn at 11:00 AM.  It’s free, several bands are playing, and there are […]

   Image via IEatTreats.com Perhaps CUSnacks’ issues have you down.  Perhaps you feel hunger pangs in the wee hours of the morning.  Perhaps all you want is something sweet to keep you company (not like that). Enter I Eat Treats, a new service which offers “Decadent Nibbles Delivered Nightly 6pm-4am in the Columbia University Area.”  […]

   Image via the BBC For once in your life (savor the moment) something’s been completed before facilities said it would be! Tipsters report that the Hartley laundry room is back in business today after last week’s spontaneous combustion; the email Housing sent out didn’t anticipate the laundry room’s return until Monday, the 27th. Not […]

Want to take a quick break from the sun? CU Search is holding its closing event in Furnald right now, and tipsters tell Bwog that there are “over a hundred cupcakes!!!” Enjoy the frosty goodness.  Alternatively, Fu Foundation Bureau Chief Sean Zimmerman recommends the Tae Kwon Do tournament currently going on in Dodge. He sends […]

Hungover East Campus residents stumbled out this morning to people assaulting each other with rang.  This year’s Holi had its largest ever turnout – Bwog saw many neighborhood kids rolling around in the colors. As Bwog left, trashcans were being filled with water to make people recognizable again. Another picture of the aftermath after the jump.

Feeling broke?  Feeling angry?  Bwog’s Movie Marathon Man Mark Hay offers up three films about people who have even less money than you do.  Mmm…schadenfreude. The Full Monty (1997) The message of director Peter Cattaneo’s film wavers back and forth somewhat between a grim conclusion on the economic plight of the workingman and an uplifting […]

   Photo via RottenTomatoes.com Happy Saturday everyone!  With highs in the low eighties and hope for more open lawns, Bwog can’t help but feel a little bubbly this morning, not to mention pretty darn hungry.  Luckily, Bacchanal has not one but two free food options today.  Or, since they’re consecutive, the option of six hours […]

It’s Friday night, and if you’re short on bucks but long on boredom, there’s plenty of free stuff to be had on campus. Postcrypt Art Gallery has free art, free models, free food, and—best of all—free wine in the basement of St. Paul’s Chapel. It’s the last show of the year, and the theme is […]

The General Studies Student Council results are in, and the big winner is apathy. New president-elect Katherine Edwards defeated Alfred Davis with 63% of the vote. She will be joined by Hannah Kim as VP Student Life, Jacqueline Thong as VP Finance, Clark Chaheine as VP Communications, and Scott Jurkowski as VP Policy. More notable, […]

Though most Nussbaum residents can return to their rooms by 8 p.m. tonight, the effects of the Community Food and Juice fire may be felt for weeks to come. Housing officials say repairs are still in progress and some building utilities will be phased back into operation over the coming days. One elevator will be […]

It’s Friday! Need even more incentive to blow off working ahead on that big paper? One of the Butler lawns is open!   Quick, before the sun sets! Then again, temperatures are supposed to be in the 80s until Tuesday, so you’ve got plenty of time to enjoy the heat.   – Photo by JCD

Bwog’s Associate Literati Expert David Berke spent some time in the Kraft center with writer Paul Auster. He brings us this report. Paul Auster, acclaimed novelist and former Columbia undergrad, dropped by the Kraft Center for the final installment in the Literature and Terror lecture series. Because fiction and fright are like academic peanut butter […]

Seven fire trucks and emergency management vehicles have congregated outside of the Nussbaum block this morning as smoke seeps out of the lower level. Nussbaum residents have been evacuated, though fire officials seem to be focusing their efforts on entering Community Food and Juice, where most of the smoke appears to be coming from. UPDATE […]

You wake up in your 30th floor Park West Village apartment before having breakfast at Whole Foods downstairs. You think about riding the subway to work, but economic hardship has forced the city to cut your local line. You instead hop into your green-roofed, solar-powered, bamboo car and take off for Columbia. You park near […]

Bwog’s Spirits-and-Scrolls Correspondent Anna Kelner attended a reading at the Ding Dong Lounge by author Zadie Smith. Provided with the opportunity to luxuriate under dimly lit chandeliers, splurge on a $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon, and hear one of Granta’s best 20 young authors of 2003 read from an unpublished novel, MFA students tore themselves away […]