Spectator‘s site is down, per usual, must be all that high traffic. Grrl Power! (Mean Zine Fighting Machine p. 12) Did The Eye forget to print a page? (After the Lights Go Out p. 7) The Nanny Diaries was already published and made into a movie. (Babysitters’ Club p. 5) Indie music blogs?! What an […]

Of course Columbia students hate secrets. Spectator promotes body-image issues. Soon we’ll vote via texting too. Newsflash: learning Mandarin is useful for jobs! What about Barnard’s needs? P.S.: The Spec site is moving really slowly due to the high traffic generated by being linked to on every right wing blog in the country.  ALSO! A […]

It’s a big city out there. Bwog continues its (fledgling) series of artsy picks to help you navigate the world below Morningside. Orhan Pamuk Pamuk–winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature–is taking time off from his part-time professorial duties to read from his latest, Other Colors: Essays and a Story, a collection of essays […]

In which Bwog freelancer Joseph Meyers journeys uptown for a free-for-all public hearing on Manhattanville. Next Wednesday, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer will decide whether or not to rubber stamp Columbia’s proposed expansion plan in Manhattanville. It’s only an advisory decision—but that didn’t stop hundreds of impassioned Manhattanville residents from descending on City College’s Aaron […]

Bwog movie-goer Christian Kamongi scopes out the New York Film Festival and shares his picks. If you do one thing this semester, make sure you attend New York Film Festival (headed by Columbia’s own Richard Peña). Much of its Cannes-heavy lineup has not yet secured distribution, so this may be the last chance to view […]

Yesterday, Bwog staffer Lucy Tang sat in on the Future of Book Reviews panel and realized that all Columbia arguments center around elitism. Panelists: Steve Wasserman (former editor of the Los Angeles Book Review) Peter Osnos (founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs) Elizabeth Sifton (editor and senior vice president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux) […]

This is a big weekend for students selling food. The day before “Feel Good” debuts their grilled charity cheese, three freshmen are going public with their own culinary venture, in an event they call “C is for Crunk, B is for Breakfast.” (Unfortunately for observant Jews, “YK is for Yom Kippur, F is for Fasting,” […]

As the Spec reported earlier , Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, controversial for his views on the United States, Israel, the holocaust, and nuclear weapons, among other things, will be speaking at Columbia on Monday, September 24th, as part of the World Leaders Forum. Apparently, half his time will be spent answering audience questions. UPDATE: Register […]

The New York Times ran a glowing article about Barnard’s long and distinguished list of literary alumnae.  And now it’s free for all to read, since Times Select is no longer any more of a reality than the campus presence of the Barnard Bulletin. …zing. – JNW

At 4 pm Sunday, JJ’s place is the launch spot for a student group with a name that cuts to the heart of student charity – the “Feel Good” project, through which grilled cheese sandwiches are sold in order to raise money for world hunger. It is a known fact that eating grilled cheese sandwiches, […]

Free the Lerner 6! I know, right? Is this hate or confusion? Renegade rose-pruners are great, but what is a gladfly? “Very creative, Norries!”   The choices on Spec’s poll are pretty absolute.  

Located on the eighth floor of Schermerhorn, the Wallach Art Gallery is currently running Revolutions: A Century of Makonde Masquerade in Mozambique through December 8, 2007.  With over 60 pieces of Madonke art, ranging from masks to tapestries to puppets, this extensive collection features an often-ignored African culture. Photos on the wall display the dancers […]

In which Bwog correspondent Josh Mathew reports on last night’s lecture about a book and all the hubbub it’s caused. The Underground Lecture Series: What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel Alan Segal, PhD, Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies, Barnard College What does Biblical archaeology tell us about the First […]

It’s that time of the year again when New Jersey transit tickets are free with your school ID (and this coupon)! Now you really have no excuse not to go home for Yom Kippur. Train conductor hat tip to Tao Tan for pointing this out.

Poorly-edited magazine Seventeen is coming to a MySpace near you! In the form of “15 freshman girls” (omg, misnomer!- Ed) who will be blogging all the “juicy details” from their first year at school! The girls will be writing about everything from like, classes or whatever, to like, how to break up with your high […]