Adept subway-taker Noah Brennan-Sawyer reported back from last night’s free Vampire Weekend show the Union Square Barnes & Noble with the following tidbits: Tween girl to tween friend: “I started listening to Vampire Weekend after I read Twilight and got big into vampires.” In a Q+A session, frontman Ezra Koenig said that VW’s songs are […]
New York’s unemployment rate is higher than the nation’s. (City Room) Some is actually buying Madoff’s penthouse. (NY Post) It is hard to pay for college! (New York Times) Revenge, billboard style. (Daily Intel) A Postcrypt update. (Spec)
Finding yourself overwhelmed by the possibilities of what to do your first weekend back in New York City? Bwog lends a helping hand. Friday Bauhaus at MoMA: The museum’s first survey of this school of avant-garde art since 1938 includes industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture. The show […]
Also, we’ve just gotten word that Hewitt is offering a cupcake decorating bar tonight with toppings galore. Sort of free if you don’t count the money your parents pay!
@ Milbank Chapel (Zankel Building Room 125), Teachers College A night of standup comedy headlined by Hari Kondabolu as seen on Comedy Central. Kondabolu has appeared on Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham” and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Recently he appeared on John Oliver’s New York Standup Show. Also featuring many talented acts from College Humor, SNL, […]
@ C555 Lerner After a successful QUEER SUSHI, the Columbia Queer Alliance is BACK with more free food and more fun. Join us for our annual Queer Curry this Thursday to celebrate the new year (and not the returning of classes) and welcome new Spring students. If you attended QUEER SUSHI you know the food […]
@ Earl Hall Auditorium Looking to volunteer this semester? Come to Community Impact’s Open House to learn about our 25 community service programs! Community Impact consists of 900 student volunteers participating in more than 25 community service programs that serve over 8,000 people each year in Morningside Heights, Washington Heights, Harlem and Manhattanville. Come meet […]
@ Hamilton 302 Project HEALTH, a service organization dedicated to breaking the link between poverty and poor health, is looking for new volunteers to staff its Help Desks in Harlem and Washington Heights. At our information sessions, student leaders will explain the volunteer work in more detail, share their experiences, and answer questions. E-mail: projecthealth@gmail.com […]
This event is an introduction to our first-ever Wine Apreciation Course, which will start in February. We’ll be teaching the fundamentals of tasting and pouring FREE wine. @ Math 312 RSVP at: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=248292528130&ref=mf or find out more about the course at: columbiabartending.com
J.D. Satow Room, Lerner Hall Join CPU for our annual State of the Union watch party. Come early for good seats and free pizza! Contact email: sm2249@columbia.edu
A visitor to the Livin’n’Learnin’ Center noticed something odd about a new poster welcoming students to Wallach 5. The floor’s new poster is ostensibly intended to help residents get to know New York by introducing them to all tha Big Applez‘ ethnic enclaves. You know, like the Upper West Side. The poster highlights neighborhoods across […]
Professors may not inhale, but they sure say irreverent things on the first day of class. Here are a few you sent in. Keep sending the semester’s silliest from your professors and TA’s to tips@bwog.net. Adam Cannon, Introduction to Computer Science: “I make these problems hard. If I was teaching at Southeastern Mississippi State, they […]
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