While we were all procrastinating on our readings for tomorrow, the V-Show finalized the creative team for the 125th Annual Varsity Show. Here they all are (below and on the right). Good luck, C-team! May you sleep at least a little and write (/design/direct/manage) a lot in the next few months. Director: Bernadette Bridges (CC […]

On Saturday, Staff Writer Henry Golub made his way up two staircases, a ramp, and another staircase to see Third Wheel Improv perform in Lerner. They were even funnier than last time. In my last review, I recommended that you all see Third Wheel perform for yourselves. I’m glad I did, because last night exceeded my expectations. […]

Ntozake Shange, Barnard alum (BC ’70) and notable American playwright, poet, and author, passed away on Saturday, at the age of 70. Shange is best known for her 1975 Tony Award-nominated play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, a revolutionary self-termed choreoform combining poetry, dance, music, and song, […]

Halloweekend may have drawn to a close, but Halloween is right around the corner. The festivities have just begun and you don’t want to miss out – come to our open meeting tonight at 9pm in Lerner 510 and get SPOOKY with us! Spooky scary skeletons Send shivers down your spine Shrieking skulls will shock […]

Happening in the World: Thousands of people gathered in central Rome yesterday to protest the degradation of their city under the populist Five Star Movement administration. Among the issues include unpredictable garbage collection, out-of-service public transport, unfixed potholes, and a bus fire this past May. Happening in the US: A gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh […]

Bwogger Andrew Wang is sick of Alexander Hamilton getting all the credit for immigrants who changed the course of American history. Here are the stories of two immigrant heroes, told through their statues in Riverside Park.  Bad historians like me think of late modern American history in four dates: 1776, 1787, 1863, and 1865. The American Revolution began, […]

This Halloweekend, Bwog revives our library review series from the dead to bring you a review of Barnard’s beloved new Milstein Center. Bwoggers Sarah Braner and Isabel Sepúlveda bring you all the details from the hottest new spot campus. Location: 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 (Situated between Barnard and Altschul halls) Hours: 8:00am – […]

New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined on campus. On Campus: “She, herself, said it”: Tonight at 8 PM, head […]

I know we love to hate dining hall food because we get sick of the Ferris-John Jay-JJ’s (plus Diana and Hewitt—if you still refuse to go to Hewitt, it’s literally your loss) rotation, and this might be a spicy hot take, but dining hall cookies are good. They are the beacons of lawful good in this […]

Get your Bwoglines here! Straight to your email! With little to no effort, what’s not to love? Happening in the World: On Thursday, the Parliament of Ethiopia unanimously voted to elected Sahle-Work Zewde as President. She is the first woman to ever be elected to the position, although it is considered to be a primarily ceremonial […]

Year after year, you find yourself scrambling through your closet for clothes you can hastily turn into a costume. Despite knowing exactly when Halloween happens every year and the fact that it happens, again, every year, you are never ready for it. While you could settle for some of the real horrors Columbia has faced this […]

Staff Writer Ezra Lerner stopped by the Columbia University College Republicans’ latest speaker event on October 24. Although Mark Krikorian is less high-profile than other speakers the group has brought to campus, he used similar far-right rhetoric.  In recent semesters, CUCR has been heavily criticized for inviting prominent far-right speakers, including Tommy Robinson, Ann Coulter, and Mike Cernovich. Mark Krikorian, […]