Bwog reviewer Michael Snyder is back – and so quickly! – to report on what he peeping-tommed in somebody’s Hogan suite. “The Sublet Experiment” is, according to its posters and playbills, “a romantic comedy about mis-taken identity,” and, as per its title, it delivers some solid laughs, some not-so-solid writing, and a happy ending. The […]

Bwog theater critic Michael Snyder sat through LateNite late last night, and has a few good things to say about it. The Semesterly LateNite Anthology of student-written one-acts always feels like a handful of works in progress. When the anthology is good, they are refreshing and exciting; when the anthology is bad…let’s just say that […]

It’s 40 degrees outside and raining, so the strikers have abandoned their swamp and set up shop in Butler (hopefully avoiding a repeat of last night’s e-mail, timestamped 3:10 AM, “wondering if any folks are awake to bring us blankets and lamps”). After being in negotiations with top adminstrative brass Friday afternoon and gearing up […]

Basketball season is upon us! Bwog general assignment reporter CML reports on the sensational season opener.  What with the unlikely regression of the football team from last year’s record, hopes for the basketball team were high heading into last night’s opener.  Some expert analysts* even forecast the Lions as having a fighting chance to win […]

Sometimes law school isn’t all soulless drudgery. Bwog just received news that students from Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic have secured asylum for Ven Messam, a gay man from Jamaica, who feared persecution if forced to return to his home country–not the most friendly place for the gays. “I am grateful to […]

A kindly woman was spotted feeding the birds outside Hamilton this afternoon. We hope they were potty trained.  

A defense of the Bluegrass state, from Kentucky partisan Carlton Travis Cone. As one of the few Kentuckians at Columbia University, I sat by and read Bwog’s coverage of the marauding CU Dems as they marched around the Commonwealth, visiting such cultural centers as the Tolly-Ho.  Any token mentions of the culture of Kentucky or […]

But wait! There’s more of them! You’ve never realized how much we take the Lerner elevators for granted, until now Ah, to look back on the years of basketball-playing youth. . . Suddenly, Mean Girls and Steinbeck define the essence of freshman year Something to consider adding to that list of demands, perhaps  

Sure it’s been out for a while, but Anton Corbijn’s Ian Curtis biopic Control is still screening. Bwog correspondent Jamies Johns reviews the film and philosophizes on the nature of the rockumentary. Most of us know the story by now: Ian Curtis, lead singer of post-punk outfit Joy Division, hung himself at the age of […]

1020 not cutting it on Friday nights anymore? Bwog nightlife correspondent James DeWille is your tour guide to a better weekend. Here, he provides a user-friendly guide to Every 2nd Friday in Williamsburg. Friday night is starting early this weekend, so prepare to don your dumpiest and head on over to the Bedford L stop […]

While you’re paying for drinks at 1020, or The Heights, or wherever, some people are actually being paid to go on dates at local Columbia bars. Lonely hearts, look to psych experiments for your next love. Who knew economics held the key to matters of the heart? Bonus points to anyone who can tell Bwog […]

In which Bwog correspondent Christopher Morris-Lent learns about the most over-referenced year ever at last night’s Historical Perspectives talk.  It’s 7:00 in 301 Philosophy, I’m well-fed by a catered spread, and before me sits an ensemble cast culled from the cream of the Columbia history department, each here to describe different aspects of the year […]

Dear Readers,  When writing to or about Bwog, many of you refer to us as BWOG. Although our logo is in all caps, we prefer to be written as “Bwog,” like a name, not an acronym. It’s not a big deal or anything, but sometimes it bugs us.  Love, The Editors  

And I’m not eating until Columbia changes the names engraved on Butler Library! Meetings with Professor Philip Kitcher and the Committee on CC vs. not eating. Yup, similar tactics. There are people starving in Africa who aren’t getting so much media coverage. In case you’re not hunger-striking… Animal house!

Bwog went far and wide this fall break. From Paris to New Jersey to Bear Mountain to Brooklyn… well it was only four days, but Bwog made the most of it. Five weeks ago, you were taking your first midterm examinations; I was shopping for classes. This Monday and Tuesday, you were taking a break; […]