This past Thursday the Columbia art crowd was abuzz at the opening of “The Leisure Suite,” a new group show curated by 2008 MFA student Martin Basher. High-minded conversation, M.F.A. gossip and Bud Light flowed readily as visitors ate cheese cubes and made their way around the small space of the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, taking […]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from all of us at Bwog! Were your presents not intellectually-stimulating enough? No worries! As our gift to you, we give you Bwog film connoisseur Christian Kamongi’s cinematic picks of 2007, just a little something something to casually reference in 2008. 10. The Wayward Cloud Tsai-Ming Liang’s visceral sing-along porno […]

With all the ballots in and the numbers thoroughly crunched, Bwog proudly presents its second annual Music Critics(ish) Poll. Like last year, we’ve collected lists of favorite albums and singles from various on campus critics, musicians, and radio programmers. Unlike last year, we’ve devised a formula (not a very complicated one) in order to create […]

In Rainbows–a frequenter on this year’s top ten lists–is now complete with the release of Disc 2 about a week ago. Bwog’s newest music critic Michael Molina provides his assessment. As of December 10th, Radiohead’s In Rainbows is no longer available to download online, but will be sold on CD and vinyl starting January 1st […]

While you were celebrating the last day of classes in Butler or 1020, Bwog theatre critic Ginia Sweeney attended the late viewing of XMAS 2: The Secular Spectacular. Although the show’s run began and ended last night, Ginia shares her thoughts. Photos by Lydia DePillis. I’ve been so wrapped up in the end of the […]

Looking for an intellectually rigorous way to procrastinate during reading week? Scrabulous isn’t doing it for you? Bwog film expert Christian Kamongi shares his picks for the Pasolini, Ophuls, and Sembene retrospectives. Heretical Epiphanies: The Cinematic Pilgrimages of Pier Paolo Pasolini Marxist, poet, homosexual, pious Catholic, and renowned intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini is one of […]

Too old for fairly tales, eh? The Columbia Musical Theatre Society presents Into the Woods‘ long, jaunty ride through Mother Goose’s canon. Bwog’s theatre correspondent Ginia Sweeney reviews the play and wonders how much shorter it could’ve been. I’m going to try to keep this review short because I’ve just had to sit through an […]

What’s new in the world of dance? Bwog’s resident dance specialist, Siobhan Burke, returns to answer the question. Dancers, non-dancers, musicians, people who dance/make music alone in their rooms/cars/the shower: All are invited to come out and play—with movement, with sound, and most importantly, with each other—at Sunday night’s no-experience-necessary contact improv jam session, 7–9 […]

Bwog’s not sure what it thinks about noise music. After all, what separates it from, well, normal noise? Music correspondent Jamie Johns tries to get at the mystery in this e-mail exchange with Carlos Giffoni. Since the early 2000s, Carlos Giffoni has been at the center of a burgeoning noise scene in New York as […]

Way back when, Ashraya Gupta, Bwog’s Blue Notebooks correspondent, attended a BN-sponsored conversation with music critic Alex Ross. Even a series of technical (and editorial) snafus couldn’t keep her report from reaching the masses. At the most recent Blue Notebooks event, The New Yorker critic and recent author of The Rest Is Noise, expounded on […]

Sure it’s been out for a while, but Anton Corbijn’s Ian Curtis biopic Control is still screening. Bwog correspondent Jamies Johns reviews the film and philosophizes on the nature of the rockumentary. Most of us know the story by now: Ian Curtis, lead singer of post-punk outfit Joy Division, hung himself at the age of […]

Sticking around campus for the long weekend? Here are a few ways to amuse yourself after you’ve finally caught up on sleep, courtesy of Bwog daily editor Hillary Busis: Friday, November 2 Hip Hop Karaoke What’s that you say? You love karaoke, but you’re bored with wailing sing-along standards like “I Will Survive” and “Don’t […]

Brandon Wolfeld, Bwog’s newest Arts correspondent, provides an optimistic roundup of his Saturday CMJ experience. (Photos by Armin Rosen.) What brings six bands from as far away as Kansas to a seemingly abandoned lot in Brooklyn? The answer: the College Music Journal’s CMJ festival, an annual 5-day orgy of everything indie. The venue, the Yard […]

Better late than never, here are some off-campus alternatives courtesy of Bwog correspondent Pierce Stanley. John Scofield at Blue Note Making his only East Coast tour stop at the Blue Note Jazz Club, Scofield and the ScoHorns celebrate the release of jazz funk guitarist John Scofield’s newest album This Meets That.  October 19-21. 131 W. […]

Even though M.I.A.’s latest release Kala has been out for half a year, she still managed to sell out new venue Terminal 5. Bwog staffer Lucy Tang treks to the boondocks of midtown and finds that some artists are worth a 2-hour wait. M.I.A. makes me feel less of a woman. Artist, singer, dancer, political […]