Today Saturday September 20th, Morningside Heights will lose one of its finer establishments.  You have less than three hours to pay your final respects to Kim’s Video and purchase the last of your Criterion Collection.  Doors close for good just after six.  

This week’s New York Times Magazine features a bunch of professors dressed up in really expensive clothing. Why? “These professors make academia look good,” was the explanation proffered. Anyway, naturally this thing is called “Class Acts” and as you can imagine, it is wonderful.  Plus, one of the models is Columbia’s own anthropology professor Michael […]

An easy way to save money is avoiding stuff that costs money. But since pretty much everything costs money, the key to balancing a normal lifestyle and your budget involves avoiding unnecessary expenses.  Haircuts can fall into the unnecessary expenses category for a while, but not forever.  And although you may only get a haircut […]

The Return of Cooking with Bwog – no cooking involved! The end is of summer is imminent (Monday, officially), which happens to nearly coincide with tomorrow’s Morningside Heights Farmers Market.  So, to celebrate the season’s end, Bwog recommends a no-cooking-involved summer salad. It also keeps well in your mini-fridge, so you’ll have ample opportunity to […]

It’s the coldest Friday of the year so far, but nothing warms you up like good free (or almost free) food. Here’s some options. The College Democrats are hosting their rescheduled BBQ on the Van Am Quad from 5 – 8. It does cost $2, but then it’s all-you-can-eat. If you can wait an hour […]

You may remember that almost-dearly-departed Kim’s bequeathed its media collection to Columbia. Some have wondered whether this huge collection (40-50,000 titles) will lead to Butler actually allowing students to take DVDs and videos out of the library. Currently, the Butler media desk keeps your ID instead, and free rentals haven’t been allowed in at least a […]

Being Columbia students, and therefore not drivers, Bwog doubts you all pay much attention to parking spaces. Today until 7, though, students have turned two parking spaces along Broadway into public parks, as part of Park(ing) Day NYC. The initiative sees people take over parking spots around the city (about 50 this year), and turn […]

You read the title correctly – sports coverage on Bwog. Stop pointing at the pigs above us. We know they’re there. With the start of a new school year, we felt it was time to turn over a new leaf in the Bwog-sports relationship. In the past, we’ve generally only reported on sports either as […]

Community Board 9 discusses their views on the economy. Nick Sprayregen starts sharing his views online. Researchers now view the Hudson’s water as “much, much better.” New state driver’s licenses will make bouncers view your fake with even more skepticism.  A blogger puts forth his view on the Massad tenure fight. The Spec editorial board […]

Class of 2009, you have officially reached the point at which the school will buy you a Bud Light–and all it asks in return is that you please, please hang out with the rest of your class. In Lerner Party Space. With faint music playing on someone’s iPod speakers.  By mixing you together with moderate […]

It’s your last weekend before the autumnal equinox, and apparently a beauty–time to store up some sunlight before your skin gets slack and pallid! Here are our picks for events around town; for on-campus stuff, refer to the handy sidebar to the right. Friday and Saturday Manhattan Cask Ale Festival noon – midnight Chelsea Brewing […]

The student councils and a newly-expanded list student groups met last night in the SGO to continue their discussions of the NROTC referendum. Despite the now-public nature of their plans, the meetings remained closed to the press with notes being sent to campus media organizations. The meetings are still focused on the process behind the […]

Why is Google so biased against the Columbia University College Republicans? A furtive, anonymous tipster, known only as “Dispose Me,” just informed Bwog of some foul play at work within the liberal search engine. “The Columbia Republicans site appears to have been plagued with viagra ads. And penis elargments. It’s also quite visible when you […]

Glory be to James! (and gold-medal punnage) “When Marc Jacobs’ superb show moved me to tears, I was reminded of why I really wanted my position.” War, sex, and religion  The shame! The indignation! “…creamy cheesecake with a slight tang of goat cheese pervading the sweet, thick texture…a drizzle of caramel with a hint of […]

…who apparently are the heroes behind this bold endeavor, which seems to have ceased publication but is still the most wonderful blog devoted to a vending machine that we have ever seen. Columbia, meet Robby.