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 […]

Sick of playing beer pong in McBain every night of the weekend? Lucky for you, Bwog’s got some off-campus alternatives. Control at Film Forum Sam Riley resurrects a young Ian Curtis, former frontman of influential post-punk band Joy Division, in Anton Corbijn’s biopic, Control. Curtis, who hanged himself a month short of his twenty-fourth birthday, […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard of Vampire Weekend. Whether you saw them at ADP or Saint A’s or read the Bwog interview (their first, I think), these four boys were definitely in the business of invigorating the (almost nonexistent) campus music scene. So here we are, just a little more than […]

With the Dance Beat, Bwog correspondent Siobhan Burke regales us with a weekly round-up of one of New York’s least discussed art forms. Making my way from the 1 train to the L at 14th street last weekend–somewhere along that hopelessly grim walkway–an uplifting image, in billboard form, caught my eye. You may have seen […]

Fresh off the release of Strawberry Jam, Animal Collective brought their orchestra of electronics to Webster Hall on both Sunday and Monday. Bwog correspondent Lucy Tang explains why you should never see a band you love at Webster Hall. Considering that Strawberry Jam is one of my favorite releases of the year, I was very […]

Can the apocalypse be funny? Ashraya Gupta, Bwog’s Blue Notebooks correspondent (and member herself), summarizes novelist Matthew Sharpe’s recent visit to Morningside and reviews his latest, Jamestown. Not the ex-bassist for Weezer, but Matthew Sharpe, author of the best post-annihilation novel this side of the Book of Revelations—well, maybe. Matthew Sharpe has the kind of […]