Fall break end too soon? Where Art Thou?, Bwog’s favorite Wednesday feature gives you a change to relive fall break through culture! And art! If you want to whine about missing fall break and/or submit an event to be featured here, email events@bwog.com. Thursday KCST’s Alice in Wonderland, 8pm in the VagBox (aka the Diana […]

Interested in joining the barren wasteland of a social network that is Google+™? Interested in getting a free T-shirt?  If the answer to either of these questions (but really, just the second one) is yes, head over to the Lerner ramps at 6 pm tonight to pick up yours, and potentially even learn something about the […]

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.

Well, that was quick. While this fence probably isn’t here to stay, it is still a bit disheartening to have our hopes of enjoying the sight of a bit of green in the last sunny days of the year mercilessly crushed by the presence of this drab eyesore. Right photo by Chris Mulligan

Keep your eyes open for the October issue of The Blue & White, which, after a delay from the printers, has finally arrived to campus! In the meantime, Bwog will honor our heritage/amorous affair with our mother magazine by posting highlights of the upcoming issue online. Among the treats to look forward to: Knickerbocker Motorsports: a surprisingly gripping history, an examination of Columbia’s updated sexual […]

Live at Lerner returns to the Lerner Piano Lounge at noon today with more live music and food, and, as usual, it’s all free! This week, Live at Lerner welcomes The Ambassadors, a four-piece indie band from Brooklyn that blends “tropical and pop to R&B and hip hop in a smart mix of instrumentals and […]

Columbia researchers find that the dust from car exhaust increases the chance for, among other things, brain damage, autism, depression, and Alzheimer’s. (WSJ) Yesterday, voters soundly rejected an anti-abortion initiative in Mississippi and a law limiting union rights in Ohio. (NYT) Though the initial flooding in Thailand may be over, the recovery is expected to cost in excess of […]

Behold the marriage of modernism and nature! Or at least something green. In this urban jungle we’ll take what we can get. The hardscrabble, weeds, and dead shrubs that littered the raised-plaza-thing outside NoCo have blossomed into perfectly manicured grass sod. Looks like a great place for the kids in the brochures to lay out and read books. […]

You can go back to sleep! The end of Daylight Savings has delivered another sweet sixty minutes to your day, so it’s now an hour earlier than you thought it was. Though it happens every year, one national news outlet or another perennially feels the need to narrate the history of this curious organizational phenomenon. […]

Bwog wunderkind Marcus Levine caught the premiere of Crown and Scepter’s production of Sweeny Todd. Though extensive in its size and depth, university theater scenes are fundamentally limited: they primarily appeal to and perform for students. Crown and Scepter Theater Company, founded by Joseph Rozenshtein (CC ’12/SIPA ’13) and Mitchell Feinberg (SEAS ’13), opens these […]

For those staying in New York over the break, our friends at InsideNewYork were kind enough to throw together this guide of events going on this weekend. Finally, Midterm madness has come to an end—or at least a pause—for the two days off we at Columbia so dearly treasure as Fall Break.  Step out of […]

This morning Columbia, the World Bank, and New York City Global Partners convened to discuss the role of global cities in promoting business innovation, entrepreneurship, and job growth. While some students protested the event, Bwog’s Entrepreneurial Expert Alex Eynon attended to bring you the low-down. Suits, government officials from twenty-one nations, and of course, Columbia students, streamed into Low […]