For those seeking a soulful September jam, Columbia’s latest singing sensation, Tara Priya, CC ’08, offers a nostalgic escape from the autotune avalanche. Her sound is a throwback to the likes of Billie Holiday and Etta James, but never anachronistic. With influences ranging from Tupac to opera, Tara has developed a powerful voice of her […]
House G.O.P Leader, John Boehner, open to compromise on tax cut. (NY Times) At last night’s VMAs, Kanye and Tay Swift resolved the Swiftboating incident—in song and over Twitter, the way celebs are supposed to do these things. (AP) “Tireless” Tasini charms voters with his adorable sense of humor, challenging embattled and ethically questionable Charles […]
If you’re like us, you’ve spent hours of valuable registration appointment time agonizing over whether to take a class with a visiting associate professor or an adjunct assistant. What do these titles actually mean? Bwog’s expert on esoteric distinctions, Jon Edelman, breaks it down. According to the faculty handbook, there are twenty-three possible titles for […]
Hello, friends! Hope you’ve had a lovely first week of the semester, and that none of your classes have discussion sections. The first Bwog meeting of the year will be tonight at 7 PM in the student meeting room on the main floor of the Diana, at Barnard. We’ll meet for about an hour, and […]
Residents of the Block (dorms on 113th and 114th) are invited to the year’s first BlockTalk, and it’s happening this afternoon! Free treats will be served up by Columbia’s very own NOM^3. The nomming goes down in the Broadway lobby at 2. Go forth and eat! Update: Free ice cream is available in Lerner until 3 […]
The Brooklyn Book Festival is taking place today until 6 p.m. at Brooklyn Borough Hall. All events-panels, forums, booths- are free to attend! Famous people, like Venus Williams and Sarah Silverman, will be there, along with Columbia’s own Professor Gary Shteyngart and Librarian Karen Green. Get your intellect on! Photo via Wikimedia Commons
The drones are coming! (NYPost) The hipsters are coming? (Gizmodo) Lady Gaga has arrived – in the classroom (HuffPo) Money buys less happiness in New York (WSJ)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt returns to Morningside Heights for the filming of Premium Rush! 114th Street has become Columbia Pictures’ storage closet, while Nussbaum offers prime views of JGL himself. If you’re lucky, you may even get to see stunt cars drive backwards on Broadway! Top-left photo by Annie Liu. Top-right photo by Robyn Gordon. Remaining photos […]
Columbia has created a University-wide student group website that allows students to browse, join groups, and participate in discussions. Student group leaders can post notes, events, and send messages to their fellow members. Among the most useful tools on the site is the events calendar, which can be filtered using many different criteria (e.g. filter […]
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