The new Spectator website ain’t working so hot right now. So hang tight, and we’ll get you a QuickSpec as soon as the Spec site loads. Or at least soon after that.  UPDATE: There’s now a message on the website saying the site will be down for the day. It will return in the future. […]

In which Bwog Arts correspondent Daniel D’Addario watches MTV so you don’t have to. Promise him you won’t. This is the worst thing ever to happen to America. I am stuffing my face with Westside Market cheddar on crackers to smother my feelings; from next door, the smell of pot reminds me that hope is […]

Remember when to gather signatures for a petition you had to stand around with a clipboard accosting strangers on the street? Web-based petitions have done away with all the discomfort, and now rallying support for a cause is as easy as setting up a letter on one of the several petition sites and watching the […]

Bwog heard through the grapevine that some of the employees at 212 have asked familiar faces for a most unusual favor: to write Dining Services an e-mail requesting that the Chef’s-Hat-Required policy be nixed.  We think this a worthy cause, and if you do too, shoot the Dining mandarins an e-mail at eats@columbia.edu. It’ll take […]

This is shaping up to be a bad year for fun and games, especially in EC–last night and tonight, a line stretched out the door and down the steps. According to one correspondent, yesterday security guards bounced non-residents entirely. Walking through the 116th gates, Bwog also overheard a radio communique directing the posted security guard […]

This Bwogger stopped down to the annual Art Parade on West Broadway today and was delighted to see an incognito CUMB (their CU Arts Nalgenes gave them away)representing Alma Mater not only in the recesses of downtown but amid a churning sea of be-glittered flesh, papier mache effigies, and young women held aloft by balloons. […]

Tipster Nishant Batsha Reports: “There’s a bunch of tents set up in front of Hamilton to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the building. I asked some guy dressed up in colonial-era clothing and he said it was open to “students, alumni, and donors.” Free pastries!” Sounds good.                   […]

Bwog announces the return of Thursday Room Hopping — now on a new day! Jessica’s room in Claremont is probably the best place on campus to sit pretzel-style on the ground with some milk and cookies for a read-aloud. The artistic senior spent the week of down-time before school began bringing the outdoors inside of […]

     Bwog happened upon a man making an intricate chalk drawing of the Virgin Mary–we think–on the sidewalk outside Havana Central. A collection hat said he was using donations to put his kids through college. We dropped some change in, admired some more, and moved on.          …And in profane news, we hear […]

In which Bwog freelancer Zack Hoopes infiltrates the world of I-banking infosessions. “THIS is where you need to be.  This IS where you need to be. This is where YOU need to be.” The JP Morgan interns on the TV screen said this phrase to me, over and over again, in every conceivable form of […]

Hurry! Until 8 PM, EC Plaza will have free BBQ followed by desserts from Kitchenette in the Wien Courtyard. Give your thanks to Residential Life (especially EC/Wien RAs).

A big Bwog welcome to the Blaaag (rhymes with gag, and not to be confused with Blaaaaahg), which we stumbled upon a few weeks ago before it officially launched on Tuesday. The Blaaag staff wants you to know that although it is specific to Asian American stuff, it is not the voice of the Asian […]

On the semester’s first Friday the activities fair bestowed unto Bwog the following: One plastic Japanese fan (which was very useful in the foul heat) One pocketful of melted chocolate At least four varieties of baked goods Condoms-a-plenty the Holy Bible  One bright yellow gym sack brandished with advertising from Columbia Community Outreach A nice […]

Money Space Money Space Space Money Space Money  Mexican soccer players…they’re just like us!  Oh how wonderful it is to be a Spec Arts writer Putting Collegeboxes on notice

Bwog believes that you should absolutely judge a group by its flyers, and with recruitment posters blanketing campus, there are a lot of pre-judgments to make. But even if you’re not considering joining any, you can at least appreciate what they say about the state of national politics, and how the clubs themselves are doing. […]