If you go to the athletics website and click on Sports Marketing ->Official Sponsors, you get, appropriately enough, a blank page.

With the World Cup over, Berliners had to find some other way to get their kicks–and what better than a massive parade celebrating techno music and the fall of Communism? Bwog correspondent Joyce Hau reports that over 120,000 scantily clad people (some estimates ranged much higher) throbbed to the beats of DJs Paul van Dyk […]

Hey you, with the pallid skin! You could wait for Columbia to bring the sunshine to you with a cheesy Coney Island-themed event. Or you could go hang out at the real thing, as Bwog did one lovely Friday afternoon. Brighton Beach welcomes thousands of urban refugees every summer with miles of umbrella-freckled sand and […]

Just in case you haven’t been around to ogle at the cocoon that currently cradles our Beloved Butler library, here are a few snapshots. According to the library’s, always helpful website the building should emerge from its tough outer casing by Fall 2007.

Bwog’s recent weekend jaunt to Little Rock, Arkansas was filled with good culture and good times at some of the city’s premier attractions. The Clinton Presidential Center, for instance, was fascinating. The city’s Central High School, pioneer of desegregation, was inspiring. The waterfront was pleasantly thriving. Bwog’s favorite attraction, however? Four words: Drive-Through Liquor Store. […]

First five Bwog readers to email cuarts[at]columbia.edu by 4pm Tuesday win a FREE PAIR of tickets to Greta Gertler @ Joe’s Pub tomorrow. Check out a free track here.

While the curators of the hallowed Metropolitan Museum of Art felt pretty confident when they dropped $45 million on a Renaissance Masterpiece, CU art history professor James Beck just called them suckers: he’s convinced that this painting’s a fake. Read the full story in the Times.

Bwog fan Joyce Hau checks in from Berlin, where she jostled with nearly a million football fiends on the Fan Mile for the final match of the world cup between Italy and France. From Joyce: How ironic–the French have nothing to thank him for now. More from Joyce, including literal translations of German player’s last […]

You guessed it! The infamous hate-crime cracker packets showed up again on campus this week—and this time we have photographic proof. Bwog correspondent/cryptographer/gumshoe investigator Addison Anderson, who spied the pictured item of hatred on a bench on the path between Lerner and Low, wrote up the following account. Read the full report, which includes an […]

Bwog is inclined to giggle at the absurdity of this one, but then wants to break down in tears. A disgruntled man took a chainsaw to a postal worker on the platform of the 110th street subway station this morning. Two chainsaws, actually. The victim told the Associated Press, “He just kept stabbing me and […]

The first three Bwog readers to email cuarts@columbia.edu by the end of the day can score a pair of free tickets to tonight’s Shout Out Out Out Out concert at the Tank (They’re from Canada!). Show starts at 8 down in Tribeca. Read the full description at CUArts.com.

The Village Voice has just released its list of the Ten Worst Landlords in New York City, and man oh man, are these guys jerks. The landlords profiled in this article evict tenants unfairly, cut off electricity without warning, and change the locks on 70 year-old diabetics while they are stuck in the hospital. One […]

Bwog reader John Shekitka reports there is an abundance of fireflies (or lightning bugs) darting around on South Lawn. Go catch some while a humid twilight descends.

Item! Somewhere in between stifling the urge to can the Supreme Court and accusing reporters of treason, President Bush has tapped the Business School’s resident inflation dove, Frederic Mishkin, to fill a spot on the Fed’s seven-member board of governors. Why does this matter, besides saving the students who made that music video commiserating with […]

Yes, Bwog is immature. But read the following and imagine for a second if your job was to be a pimp for South Asian cripples. Just for a second. Ok, done. ———- Forwarded message ———- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:23:09 -0700 (PDT) From: <—–@yahoo.com> To: ——@columbia.edu Subject: A request for help Hi [name omitted], […]