Morningside slows down in the Halloween runup, unless you’re at MoWi or DR (fun!).  Here’s some things you can do before the long weekend. Monday Lunchtime Concerts – Haydn “Sun” Quartets: The Daedalus Quartet, in residence at Columbia, performs this week.  Reviewed by the New York Times last week.  12:30 PM @ Philosophy Lounge.  Also […]

Bwog is receiving reports from Blue and White alumnus James Wiliams that a car crashed into the front of Indus Valley, located on the southeast corner of 100th and Broadway. Police have already begun dismantling the car. Standby for more pictures and details as they come in.    UPDATE 3:45 PM: Bwog just returned from […]

This is just one of the first in what Bwog assumes will be a veritable onslaught of Halloweenish events.  We’ll keep you posted. Bacchanal is hosting an event on the steps today, some sort of crazy Halloween/study break mashup entitled “A Ghoulish Day on the Steps” today from 3:00PM – 7:00PM. The free highlights include: […]

Bwog freelancer Yelena Shuster ventured into the underground with the Potluck House kids Friday night. Friday night was no ordinary party in Brooklyn–with Potluckers in the lead, a subway car full of whooping kids traded in hipster wear for flapper costumes, cigarettes for party blowers, and Williamsburg for Brighton Beach. The rendezvous was no exception […]

The real world media reveals that Columbia’s full of denial this week. The Alps don’t exist.  Really? Bananas aren’t blue.  Really! Traylessness isn’t all that bad.  Obviously. The drug war isn’t publicized enough.  Irresponsibly. CU Med school doesn’t get questionable donations?  Honestly!

Andrew Delbanco, Columbia’s favorite English professor and just about everybody’s favorite social critic, has put down his more customary meditations on Melville, Lincoln and the like and instead pens his reflections on this year’s election in the current issue of The New York Review of Books.  Although he focuses on what he calls the “race […]

Bwog’s food editor Jon Hill travels this week to Brooklyn to find a taste of Australia. Almost everyone these days seems to have a beef with beef. Cardiologists blame it for clogging arteries, animal rights advocates don’t like the way it’s processed, and environmentalists resent its carbon footprint. Beef has become a bad guy in […]

That’s right, the oft-maligned football team won its first conference game in almost two years, 21-13 over Dartmouth. At a windy and rainy Wien Stadium, quarterbacks Shane Kelly and Millicent Olawale combined for 205 yards in the air, and the team also produced 193 rushing yards, as the Lions moved to 1-2 in the Ivy […]

Bwog kicks off Halloween early this year with a special guide to two of the neighborhood’s best costume purveyors, Ricky’s and  Possibilities @ Columbia. You can divide the world in two camps: Those who love Halloween and those who hate it.  Bwog falls into the former camp and we hope you do too. But we […]

It’s TV on the Internet! Brought to you by Web-only television critic Rob Trump. This week: Toyboize. Whether you prefer the British Office or the American version–and I think a case can be made for either–you have to concede one point to the Americans: they’re much better at keeping their actors employed.  While Jenna Fischer […]

Bwog loves celebrating multi-culturalism almost as much as eating free food.  But really, what Bwog loves best is Thai food, especially pad thai with those little pieces of tofu and crunchy peanuts.  Bwog is not sure why the people at the Columbia Thai Student Association are being so generous this afternoon but it might be […]

The celebration of Latino Heritage Month continues with reflections on last night’s “Swagger Like Us,” Latino Month’s Cultural Showcase and Fashion Show. Last night Bwog arrived early, but as sartorially inclined soirees are wont to do, the “Swagger Like Us” Latino Heritage Month Showcase and Fashion Show started fashionably late, about forty-five minutes late.  After […]

Bwog Fun Foundation Bureau Chief Sean Zimmermann attended last night’s Night Market festivities. Some pictures and a few notes follow. The tea was not free. Such was our initial thought upon first entering Night Market, the annual celebration sponsored by the Chinese Students Club during which Low Plaza is transformed into Chinese street market. However, […]

Bwog Daily Editor James Downie was in Lerner Cinema for the least controversial speech by a Republican official since Eisenhower. In typical Senatorial fashion, Chuck Hagel was 25 minutes late to the event. In typical Columbia fashion, the room (Lerner Cinema) was too large for the event. Nevertheless, it was a refreshing and informative talk […]

If you bank with the HSBC branch between 102nd and 103rd, and had some late Friday withdrawls to make, Bwog suggests finding another location. Gothamist reports that the branch was robbed about two hours ago.  How big of a heist it was, and whether it relates to a robbery an hour earlier at a Chase […]