It’s Super Bowl Sunday, which means it’s time to make your predictions! If you’re not into the whole sports thing, you can predict other stuff too. What shape will the pasties be? (Suntimes, MTV, ESPN) According to some, Ivy style will be making a comeback this spring. Not to brag or anything, but we totally called […]
Lily Icangelo was there! I knew nothing about Julia Wolfe before attending her Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre Thursday night, but after just two brilliant pieces and a brief talk from Wolfe herself, I felt as if I had known her and her music for many years. Wolfe first gained recognition after taking part in […]
On Thursday night, Simon Schama, University Professor and renowned intellectual about town, delivered the first half of a two-part public lecture, “Obama’s America: War.” Victoria Wills was there to witness the elusive history legend! The day I was accepted into Columbia, my high school History teacher congratulated me by yelling down the hallway: “Get me […]
In case you don’t follow sports (though we prefer the term “athletically apathetic”), the Super Bowl is tomorrow, and Morningside Heights is rising to the occasion. If you know about any other Super Bowl-themed deals, let us know in the comments! In other news, CCSC President Learned Foote broke the handle of the door to […]
Radically transparent Bwog correspondent Alex Jones reports from yesterday’s panel discussion on Wikileaks, which featured Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times , and Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian . Audience members flew around the digital world on their phones–likely checking for the latest updates and videos from the democratic unrest in Egypt–as […]
These times, they are a-changin’. Saturday Morning Cartoons keeps you up to date on cutting edge technology. Now if only there were an app for recording your night, post-blackout… Cartoons by Jody Zellman
Earlier this morning, a Tom Cat Bakery truck and taxi cab collided on 116th St and Broadway. The taxi’s passengers have been taken to the hospital, but bystanders report that the situation doesn’t look too grim. Unplowed snow appears to be the culprit in this incident. The crash-induced traffic has cleared, but bulldozers have now […]
Floridita (you know, that Cuban restaurant that was relocated due to Manhattanville expansion) is suing Columbia University for moving it to a building contaminated with asbestos. This isn’t the first of Columbia’s asbestos-related issues. (Village Voice) Starbucks’ new 31-ounce Trenta cup can hold an entire bottle of wine. Oh, the possibilities! (Eater) A Connecticut pot […]
Now there’s something unexpected from Columbia’s new home page. Bwog cartoonist extraordinaire Jody Zellman pointed out to us that if you are choosey enough with your words, you can get some very interesting results from the home page’s search box that now has an autocomplete feature. People have been having fun with Google‘s autocomplete for years, but […]
Bwog’s kinda fascinated by the 140-character nuggets of wisdom dispensed from PrezBo’s twitter. We even tried tweeting him once… it was awkward. Anywho, PrezBo’s not the only Twitter-ing Columbian. You can finally stalk these professors in a socially acceptable way by “following” them. Twitters ahoy! P.S. Follow us too! Shamus Khan (Sociology) Recent tweets: “I […]
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