The 10 best Oscar red carpet looks of all time. Gwyneth, Julia and Halle are all there. (E! News, Goop, Youtube, ) Age is but a number—an 86-year-old and a 9-year-old are both nominees this year. (LATimes) In a world…where there are movie trailers, only certain scenes make the cut. (NYTimes) How to make an Oscar-winning […]
How the Other Half Lives, your favorite life-swapping stories outside of Wife Swap, is back for more! This time we sent one of Bwog’s resident scientists (he makes Froscanity look like child’s play) to a history class on the American South and a history major to a class on Mechanics – some sort of science, […]
Bwog’s favorite strong, bold, and beautiful president (sorry Prezbo) published an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Thursday regarding the experience of women in higher education and in its effects on their experience in the work place–specifically the lingering pay-gap between them and their male counterparts. President Spar reminds us that, even though it […]
This past Thursday night, Russian could be heard echoing through the halls of IAB. This was not a simple run-of-the-mill discussion on the Cold War or the Russian geopolitical threat. It was something much classier! Up and coming opera sensation, Anita Rachvelishvili, was there to discuss her life and what it’s like to be a […]
While walking through College Walk the other day, Bwog observed two small children riding their bikes: Child 1: Aren’t you getting tired of this? Child 2: No! We’ll stop when I say we stop. Awww… What a cute little future dictator. Welcome to Columbia, kids! You’ll fit right in. A […]
Bwog engaged in some super sleuthing this weekend (aka bumming around Facebook) discovered that the theme of Bacchanal this year is DeBacchery! (Bacchanal Facebook page) If you are anything like Bwog, you have heard that famous street artist DeBanksy was arrested and his identity has been revealed… If you are anything like Bwog, you also died […]
After a police sting involving a 19-year-old who looks 30, 1020 might lose its liquor license. In honor of all those late nights spent hunched over sticky booths—whether there’re to be more of them or not—Bwog Editor Alexandra Svokos writes about the 1020 murals in this month’s issue of The Blue and White. “Why, yes, […]
In case you missed it while you were out last night, Spec posted a late-night story about 1020 getting fined for serving an underage, undercover police recruit. The underage recruit stopped by around 7 pm yesterday and cops came by later to serve the charge. A little after opening today, Bwog stopped by 1020 to […]
The Henry Luce Foundation and the Kellett Fellowship would like to remind us that we have really intelligent people at this school. Congratulations to Claire Duvallet, SEAS’13, Adam Formica, CC’13, and Gavin McGown, CC’13! Claire Duvallet is part of the 2013-2014 class of Luce Scholars, and is the first SEAS student to have won. The […]
Feeling especially environmentally unfriendly this morning? Head over to the Ruggles shaft right now for the Composting Open House! A more eloquent description below: Are you curious about composting at Columbia? Come join us in the Ruggles shaft (accessible through the basement) for a tour of EcoReps’ new composting machine! The Composting Open House will […]
Black Kenneth Cole coat (medium) lost at 1020 Feb 8th (the night of the blizzard). I think there was an accidental coat swap and I would love to swap back! Contact: spf2107@columbia.edu
Google announces a new laptop as a response to Apple’s MacBook Air. (The Guardian) On and after March 1, visitors to (but not residents of) North Korea will be able to access the Internet via SIM card. All excuses not to read Bwog are gone. (TIME) Space tourist Dennis Tito plans to casually fly by […]
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