Bwog is as stoked as anyone else for tomorrow’s opening of the Diana, not least of all for the deluge of tremendous Overheards to come. This marks the beginning of what will surely be a prosperous endeavor (this is totally what Setting Out for the West felt like, guys). Overheard in the Diana elevator: Old […]
From the Department of New and Quirky Campus Blogs comes Dicks at Columbia (http://dicksatcolumbia.tumblr.com). Don’t worry, it’s totally SFW: the blog is a “celebration of the phallus in all its forms” on this undersexed campus, documenting the proprietor’s near-anthropological quest to find and photograph every wang at our apparently wang-obsessed school. You can help, too! […]
This clever graffito marking a dollop of unknown provenance in John Jay further proves that life is just more fun with annotation. And gold stuff. Photo by Claire Sabel
It’s Groundhog Day, and Punxsutawney Phil thinks there’s more winter coming. Staten Island Chuck, though, forecasts an early spring. In any case, if you see Ned Ryerson, run. Or start ice sculpting. (Gothamist) From our comments: reader Pantsless sent in this awesome time-shifting map of New York. (Kottke) Firefighters rescued a man and a woman […]
WKCR 89.9 FM NY, Columbia University’s radio station, needs DJs! We’re holding an information session for potential programmers this Sunday, Feb. 7 from 4:30 to 5:30. With pizza, of course. The event is in the Broadway Room in Lerner.
Join GlobeMed for a free film screening of the movie War Dance, followed by Q&A with Dr. Susan MacLaury, the co-founder of the non-profit film company Shine Global. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Documentary Feature and won 15 awards at different film festivals all over the country. It centers […]
Bwog’s ESC Correspondent Sean Zimmermann writes from tonight’s meeting: Chad Miller, the Arts Initiative’s Event and Outreach Coordinator opened ESC’s meeting this week. Miller confirmed that the TIC has been asked to cut 30% of their budget by the Office of the President. The cut was not ordered by the School of the Arts. The […]
RoomHop all the way to the Quad with Hannah Goldstein and check out the floral side of Barnard. If you’d like to see a crib get Hopped, contact us at tips@bwog.net with a picture. Walking down the eighth floor of Sulzberger Hall in the Barnard Quad, you might get the passing notion that something is […]
Dear Friends: Please join the staff of The Blue and White and the Bwog (pictured at right) for our meeting tonight, Monday night, at 9:30 p. m. in the basement of St. Paul’s Chapel. New writers/artists/layout designers are especially welcome and encouraged to attend. We’ll be planning our next issue, pitching article ideas, and assigning […]
MARY & MAX Adam Elliot / Australia / 80 minutes / Narrative MARY & MAX is a claymated feature film from the creators of the Academy Award winning short animation HARVIE KRUMPET. A tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of […]
@ 302 Fayerweather Are you interested in working with teenagers? Do you have an interest in teaching? So then why not join Student Health Outreach (SHOUT) in it’s new initiative to expand it’s educational outreach to teenagers? SHOUT’s Health Education and Resources for Teens (H.E.A.R.T) program will introduce a new 10-week program in diet and […]
Have you ever wanted to get into the mind of a Columbia ID checker, to see what it’s like behind that desk? A new blog, The Red Zone (http://showyourid.blogspot.com/), offers just that opportunity. It chronicles the tales of an Avery General Assistant, known to readers only as “GA,” since the author never mentions his/her name. […]
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