Yoko Ono sold out her Japan benefit concert at Miller Theater tonight. You can second-best it and watch it on CUTV. (The Examiner) Aretha Franklin celebrated her 69th birthday at ‘a posh New York City hotel’ with Clive Davis, Smokey Robinson and Tony Bennett to name a few…not including us. (The Big Talker) Nintendo 3DS […]

Judith Scott-Clayton, assistant professor at Teachers College, suggests that offering college students too many choices leads to frustration and procrastination and proposes instead giving college students more structure. Because no one ever procrastinates in Core classes! (NYT) Some schools pay their commencement speakers tons of money. Maybe POTUS should start having some bake sales? (NYT) If […]

History Professor Eric Foner strikes gold—for the second time! Yesterday, Columbia University awarded the Bancroft Prize to Foner for his book “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.” Thanks to CU, Foner will also receive $10,000 (!) in prize money. Damn, it must feel good to be a Tweedster. (ABC News) There’s good food in […]

High: the number of City Council voters in favor of renaming the Queensboro Bridge after former New York mayor Ed Koch. Yesterday’s 38 to 12 vote determined that the bridge’s name will change next month to the “Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.” Low: the level of light as allied forces began the most intense night of […]

UWS residents blame Columbia’s recent construction for rats the size of “cats and kittens.” Columbia they’re culpable, but will offer a pest-taming workshop. (PIX 11) Big deal physics prof Brian Greene will make a cameo appearance in the Big Bang Theory as himself! (Digital Spy) NYC Councilwoman Gale Brewer introduced a bill which would prohibit cars […]

Competition for space on New York City pavement is fierce. Pedestrians, motorists, cyclists, skaters, taxis, horses, hovercraft, etc. all vie for a spot on crowded roads. Now you can learn all you ever wanted to know about the current controversy over the city’s bike lanes—and more! “Whipping down the street, completely protected from the cars […]

A hodgepodge of headlines graced Bwog’s virtual news desk this week. Sexless and the City: Web Warps Libidos of Coked-up Careerists. What a lede! Money quote: “Sex is antithetical to the way they socialize, disruptive to the larger plan, a gateway to chaos in a digitally ordered world.” Basically all of us twenty-somethings are sexless […]

Roses are red, Brown must be blue, Since Emma Watson is leaving… We would be too. (EmmaWatson.com) There is nothing quite as annoying— With our hearts cab drivers start toying, “Where do you want to go? Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn? Ha, no!” Caught on tape, the act’s self-destroying. (NYT CityRoom) Speculation ensues; New, very low number […]

Mailman School of Public Health announces a new interdisciplinary center to study the science of aging. (Columbia) Students and residents protested outside Columbia’s Harlem employment information office Tuesday, claiming that Columbia has failed to provide the jobs it promised as part of M’ville. (DNAinfo) Although neither may be great, Ferris is more sustainable than John Jay. […]

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Murder: A man was shot and killed yesterday morning on Columbus and 109th street in front of NoCo Lounge. (Spectator) Oil: In response to rising oil prices due to recent activity in the Middle East, Obama is considering tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (NYTimes) Housing: One woman discovered a way to get an apartment on the Upper West Side […]

Play ‘Sheen, Beck or Qaddafi?’. Convince yourself this is technically only half-procrastinating because you’re learning “to distinguish between the mad ramblings of an entertainer, a despot, and a newsman another entertainer”, a skill you’ll find useful while attempting IDs later this week. (NY Mag). In other Charlie Sheen news (let’s break out the phrase), George […]

The Yale Police Department is currently investigating a possible sexual assault involving Yale undergraduates at a “naked party” thrown by the Pundits, Yale’s senior prank society. Perhaps this is why Columbia never has naked parties…(underwear parties don’t count!) (NYDN, YDN) We hope your first meal today looks as fun as these breakfasts do. Personally, Bwog prefers […]

The Native Society is a social club for native New Yorkers. Well, not most New Yorkers, just swanky prep-school grads or U.H.B’s (“urban-haute bourgeoisie”). Also you don’t have to actually be a native New Yorker as long as you “display the Native mind-set” and find college social life embarrassing. Money quote: “When you grow up in […]

Steve Jobs released a second version of the iPad yesterday. Other tablets cower. The highlights: two cameras (front/back), FaceTime, up to 9 times faster, and a 10-hour battery life. Plus, just in time for Spring Break, it’s now 33 percent thinner! (WSJ, Apple, Gizmodo, PC World) In a Supreme Court battle between funeral protesters and […]