After an attempted robbery at Banco Popular on 111th and Broadway this afternoon, much of the block as been blocked off. We’ll update you as we get more information.

Though Postcrypt opens its first show of the semester this weekend, the coffeehouse continues to struggle to stay up and running in the face an endless stream of administrative hurdles. After meeting with Columbia administrators on Tuesday, Postcrypt members inform us that they will not be serving alcohol this or next weekend, since they failed […]

Warm yourselves on your way to class! Campus Media Watch is serving free hot chocolate and coffee on College Walk.

Though it may have looked like a blizzard this morning, Manhattan expects more rain than snow. (The Weather Channel) It’s cold on Wall Street too. Angry brokers and traders rally for their rights. (Gothamist) Our second favorite alum takes stock of a hard year and tries to stay positive. (NY Times) Ke$ha could have been in […]

Come and support over a hundred of your peers as they raise money and awareness for pediatric AIDS by dancing for 28 hours straight! Kick off the marathon at noon on Saturday January 30th with Celebrity Ambassador Nigel Barker representing the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Tickets are now on sale at TIC (http://www.cuarts.com/calendar/tickets). All […]

The Gadfly (Philosophy Magazine): Accepting Submissions gadflymagazine@gmail.com www.gadflymagazine.com Do you have a philosophy on love, life or the Core? Or have you perhaps solved one of philosophy’s age old puzzles? If you’ve ever wanted to see your intellectual meanderings into philosophy published, then submit a first draft to Columbia’s Undergraduate Philosophy Magazine, The Gadfly, at gadflymagazine@gmail.com […]

Write Us A Play. LateNite Theatre, New & Original Student Theatre. To submit, visit our website (www.latenitetheatre.com) or send submissions to submissions@latenitetheatre.com.  Plays must be no more than 30 pages in length.

Turn your frown upside down on Wednesdays with free food and beverages the last Wednesday of every month! @ Wien 1st floor lounge

The World Traveler Internship (http://www.worldtravelerinternship.com) is back for 2010 and applications are now open. Two Interns will travel the world for three months taking photographs, videos, blogging, and tweeting to share their experience with their followers.  This is the fourth year of the Internship and we’ve got mtvU on board this year and the UK division of STA Travel […]

The men of Delta Sig are hosting Columbia University Dance Marathon’s Annual Date Auction. The proceeds of this great event benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation directly. Bwog wishes you happy bidding! The event will be held in Roone Auditorium from 8 to 11.

The Undergraduate Mathematics Society hosts their first talk of the semester this evening. Alex Blumenthal will be speaking about the applications of ergodic theory to additive number theory, plus some cool stuff about primes. Bwog also notes that there will be FREE FOOD from 7  in 508 Math before the talk at 7:30. Full event […]

Bwog’s chief Lecture-Hopper and free speech enthusiast Mark Hay reports from last night’s panel discussion moderated by David Remnick, (editor of the New Yorker), with Bernard–Henri Levy (philosopher and author), and Peter Awn (Professor of Islamic Religion and Comparative Religion, Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia), Kent Greenawalt (Professor of Law, Columbia), Philippe Schmidt […]