A recent item on Salon.com gave us pause: The Harvard Gazette reports that researchers in Australia have now successfully grown a complete, functioning breast from a single stem cell. Though the experiment, set up by Kaylene Simpson, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, was performed on a mouse, experts are confident that the study’s […]

Hurrah! Huzzah! The March print edition of The Blue and White, the last under Editor-in-Chief Zachary Bendiner, is officially released tonight! If you’re in a Columbia dorm, look for an issue at your door within the next 24 hours. But for those of you who desperately need your B&W jolt right now, here are some […]

Bwog staffer Julia Butareva reviews the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibit featuring drawings by Raymond Pettibon. As I walked into the Raymond Pettibon exhibition at the Whitney, a well-dressed mother walked in with her toddler. The kid babbled and squealed while I was trying to watch the video. “If you want culture,” I thought, […]

Yes, we are aware that is listed on the right, but to reiterate, FREE PIZZA RIGHT NOW! OUTSIDE THE PIANO LOUNGE! The Bwog will be fed. Update: It’s all over. A line that stretched the length of Lerner has been satisfied, and other forms of procrastinating can resume.

“So colonial America’s two greatest exports were sugar, which destroys your teeth, and tobacco, which kills you. Thanks.” –Trademark Eric Foner digression in lecture today. Just don’t get him started on The Great Boston Molasses Massacre.

In CCSC’s weekly email to the Columbia College student body: ______________________________ ___________________ 1. FREE FOOD tonight 2. Dean’s Day Closing Reception 3. Run for Student Council 4. How do you feel about Coke? 5. CC/Lit Hum Graduate Student (Preceptor) Teaching Award 6. Columbia College Days is coming. . . 7. Housing Satisfaction Survey 8. Party […]

Yo. Natalie Portman decided to show up to Bwog’s Terrorism and Counterterrorism class. If you’re in Hamilton, you might be able to catch her as she leaves. The action is on the 7th floor. Update: It turns out that Ms. Portman’s cameo in Professor Stuart Gottlieb’s Terrorism and Counterterrorism class was part of a MTV-U […]

At about 12:45, all 70+ students lunching in a packed Cafe 212 were treated to a soaring gospel rendition over the loudspeakers of “Jesus Loves the Little Children,” a favorite with Sunday Schools the world over. Basically, the only words are a repeated loop of “yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.” Probably […]

Update: Unexciting pictures after the jump. Film trucks for August Rush have returned to campus. As Bwog reported the other week, the film stars Robin Williams, that Felicity girl , hottie Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and that cute kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We’ve learned that the film is a musical-fantasy-romance (everyone’s favorite!) that […]

Newsflash! Columbia basketball loses two close games! Newsflash! 1968 was 37 years ago, and Columbia students are apathetic! Newsflash! Columbia treats international students on financial aid like shit! Student forum on expansion is created. And, of course, “It’s not just that guy or girl you fucked last week, but the first one you fucked before […]

Last Weekend B&W staffers Lydia Ross and Brendan Ballou talked with Mimi Vang Doren, the pre-eminent pet portraitist of the East Village. Ms. Vang Doren has traveled around the world as a pet portraitist—here she talks about her inspirations, her clientele, and the fall of the New York art scene. What are your influences? Every […]

Bwog did a double-take when it came across this photo: Surely this was putative Republican presidential candidate (and Columbia dad) Sen. John McCain? But then what was it doing in a photo essay on Academy Award winners? He’d probably like to tell you, but we’ll have to on his behalf. Answer after the jump. Update: […]

Feeling guilty about being suckered in by the Oscars? Ease your guilt! Read about how once upon a time, film screenings meant something. From the March issue of the B&W. I Can’t Believe it’s not Goulash Roger Ebert likes to wax nostalgic about the old days. In a favorite story of his, he stood with […]

From the CU Snacks midterm mass email: Take a study break and relax with a pint of your favorite Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. A pint of Cherry Garcia contains only 22 grams of Saturated Fat. (That’s 110% of your Recommended Daily Allowance.) At least you get 4% of your Vitamin A. CU Snacks to […]

In addition to gentrifying Manhattanville and coiffing his hair, apparently PrezBo also has time to run 4-6 miles a day. Check out Runner’s World’s interview with the man on the subject and notice how he name-drops the Core’s greatest capitalist.