One of the greatest perks of an Ivy League education is having all sorts of guest lecturers and talks hosted right on campus. Yet many of these great talks are not publicized enough. Enter Bucket List, a weekly feature that aggregates these events in a single location that will hopefully make you realize, like Bwog has, […]
The New York Mets have a new manager. This will be your year, guys! No more unfortunate Met-ahpors... (ESPN) The Northwest Science Building is ruffling some feathers. Is it interdisciplinary enough? SEAS-sy enough? Transparent enough? At least it reflects clouds —a magic mirror to the sky! (Spec) This past weekend everyone was kvetching about getting […]
Relay For Life at Columbia wants you to come by for free food in John Jay Lounge from 10-11 PM. Homemade candy apples, homemade pumpkin cupcakes, popcorn, and candy will be served in honor of Relay For Life’s 2011 theme – Candyland Carnival. Image via Wikimedia Commons
BwogWeather gets dangerous. Thank you to James Fletcher, Cape Air, Roger Lemery of North Country Auto Rentals, Henry Jones, Jeremy Pfau, Jake Smith, Jake’s siblings Caleb and Rebekah, and the City Council Board of Tourism for Lebanon, NH.
Eegad! The side door of SIPA exiting onto Amsterdam is all bruised up! It’s not a safe time to be a door in Morningside Heights. If you have any idea as to what happened, let us know in the comments!
Hannah Goldstein spent a night at the ballet last night. Here is her story. It’s always a pleasure to see the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, and this semester was no exception. The performance group, which was founded to contain just some of the vast ballet talent at our proud talent-filled university, is extraordinarily selective and accepts […]
Bwog caught up with the winners of The Social Experiment, Sharon Wu and Abril Dozal, to find out how they won, what they plan to do with their winnings, and whether or not they will buy their friends cake. What are you going to do with the money? Sharon: I’m using it to pay for my […]
Some New Yawkas are learning to tawk with a less distinctive regional accent. (NY Times) The Pope says condoms are OK for male prostitutes. (NPR) Luckily, the Post has the “inside story of the turkeys set to be pardoned by the president.” Two of the Ben-Franklin-promoted birds “will live the life of luxury” while their […]
Claire Sabel reviews last night’s concert at Miller Theatre. The work of Fred Lerdahl, the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia, was showcased last night in the second of Miller Theatre’s Composer Portraits, a monthly staple of their 2010-11 season. Lerdahl, a Guggenheim fellow and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has also written extensively […]
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