CMTS’s Candide will be performed again at the Lerner Black Box tonight and tomorrow at 8 pm. Last night, Alexandra Svokos checked out the premiere. As Shelley Farmer, BC’14, director of Candide says in her playbook note, the show is “a nightmare to stage.” With wars, castles, and locales from Uruguay to Portugal to Turkey, it is […]
The fall production of theater group NOMADS (New and Original Material Authored and Directed by Students), American Ghosts, premiered last night in the Glicker-Milstein blackbox theatre, located on LL2 of the Diana Center; the show runs through Saturday, with performances beginning at 8 pm and running a little over an hour. Bwog’s Meandering Medium Marcus Levine […]
Orchesis: A Dance Group presents their Fall Showcase, Gimme Gimme MOrchesis, in Roone Arledge Auditorium tonight at 10:30, and tomorrow again at 8:30 P.M. Bwog sent its resident Roone Rebel Rouser Renée Kraiem to the dress rehearsal and here’s what she reported back. If Gimme Gimme MOrchesis sets out to, in fact, give us more, […]
At 4pm today, Columbia University Fencing will be competing in their one and only home meet of the season. This is your chance to witness one of the most successful teams at Columbia out in full force. If you’ve ever had an interest in fencing, have a love for long pointy objects, or if you’ve […]
Here are the winners of the brownstones formerly known as AEPi, Pike, and PsiU: Alpha Chi Omega Lambda Phi Epsilon Q House While this is great news for these three organizations—having been without a house for so long—it comes as a blow to AEPi and Pike as they were trying to earn their houses back. Dean […]
The Culinary Contrarian is back, this time visiting a Chinese restaurant and an oyster-heavy establishment, eventually finding fulfillment in a test of the oyster shots at 169 Bar. Everyone needs to get away from campus now and then. Whether it’s because you yearn for novel experiences, or because a particular chair in Butler is perfectly […]
In the wake of the Black Friday Shopocalypse, a wave of fast-food employee protests began yesterday, with demonstrators chanting, “Hey, hey, what do you say? We demand fair pay.” (NYT) While Obama was trying not to fall off the fiscal cliff, Joe Biden took some time off to do his holiday shopping at Washington, D.C.’s first Costco. […]
In this cross between AskBwog and BwogSex, we advise Edward what to do when Bella says “Jacob” in her sleep take a deep look into the psyche. Send your questions (and stories!) to sex@bwog.com. Hey Bwog, Is it a big deal if my boyfriend said his ex-girlfriend’s name while he was asleep? Yours confusedly, I’m […]
Eric Foner, Professor of History and author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, gave his take on Spielberg’s Lincoln in a letter to the NYT sent earlier this week. Apparently, Hollywood’s latest take on the Great Emancipator takes some liberties. “The film,” he writes, “grossly exaggerates the possibility that by January 1865 the […]
Tomorrow night, starting at 7: 30, WBAR’s 3rd annual Winter Formal, Goth Cruise, will be setting sail from the Diana Event Oval. Goth/formal dress is encouraged, and a goth first mate and captain will be named. The show will feature: A rare performance of the bouncy, harmonized post-punk of Household whose 2011 Items was one of the year’s best records; […]
Melissa Smey, director of the Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre, just sent an email to everyone on the CUArts listserv announcing forthcoming changes to the Arts Initiative. The changes, made in response to the “Save the Arts Initiative” campaign, come just 2 days after Prezbo told a fireside chat audience that he was looking into […]
Are you as hungry as the hyenas from The Lion King? Well, stick with Bwog and you’ll never go hungry again! At 8pm in Lerner 503, you can get free food from Camp Kesem’s third general body meeting and second counselor information session. Open Mic Night is from 9:30 to midnight in the Broadway 1st […]
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