Obama’s new budget: Conservatives don’t like it, Liberals like it kind of. (NYT) Berlusconi, Italian PM, charged with paying for sex with a minor. (BBC) Having finally gotten over Pluto’s relegation, scientists are now arguing for Tyche to be given planet status. (HuffPo) Despite Bloomberg’s calorie counting initiatives, we still eat junk food. (CityRoom) Iran […]

Go on a Benjamin-Button-style trip through relationships, from lifelong soulmates to first loves. (Slate) Still looking for love on Valentine’s Day? Definitely check out Bwog personals! And if you’re willing to venture beyond Morningside Heights for romance, take a look at this breakdown of NYC’s love life by zip code. (NY Mag) Fed up with Valentine’s […]

Stay stoic this Valentine’s day. Bwog brings you the news as defined by Cicero’s definition of Lust. Mubarak has stepped down. Egyptians long for a new government as they dissolve parliament and call for a vote. (NYTimes) Pesky Canadians are getting greedy, spreading their bagel-like-products around the city. (Gothamist) An angry man suspected of going on a stabbing […]

Chinese students just love American colleges, especially Grinnell. It’s okay though, we’re not jealous. They love Barnard, too! (NYT) It’s hard out here for NYC’s  single, successful women looking for love. There just aren’t enough men to go around! (City Room) Eating more carrots, leafy greens, and other foods high in carotenoids can make others find […]

“I’m calling the shots today, get up out of bed, into school!” – Magic Johnson (NYT) “The present moment has nothing to do with me personally, with Hosni Mubarak, but with a situation of Egypt in its present and the future of its sons.” – Hosni Mubarak, who has just stepped down as president. (Al […]

Imposters are taking over! It seems that we’re not the only ones with fake—or real—teacher twitters. See, @LEE_BOLLINGER? You’re not #AllAlone. (NYT) The rats are taking over! The TV screen, that is. Animal Planet is planning a reality show about New York City’s rats. We recommend that they start their search for tiny, whiskered stars on […]

Our very own NoCo may have “the most elegant aluminum siding in America.” But seriously, people like it. (NYT) It really is hard out there for a pimp.  The internet is changing the face of the NYC sex trade, argues sociology prof Sudhir Venkatesh. According to one ex-pimp: “You learn one thing,” he said. “For […]

When you can’t instinctively tell if a blog post is satire (Huffington Post). When you post the story and tweet like you can’t tell it’s satire When Facebook begins to play a role in the prostitution industry (Cnet News). When even YouTube fails to provide a visual solution to your average housing problems (Or, when the […]

In case you hadn’t heard, the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl last night sans old quarterback. Congrats Cheeseheads! (USA Today) Who wouldn’t want to read about the Most Interesting Man in the World? After all, he is the life of parties he has never attended. (New Yorker) Speaking of interesting elderly gentlemen, check […]

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, which means it’s time to make your predictions! If you’re not into the whole sports thing, you can predict other stuff too. What shape will the pasties be? (Suntimes, MTV, ESPN) According to some, Ivy style will be making a comeback this spring. Not to brag or anything, but we totally called […]

Floridita (you know, that Cuban restaurant that was relocated due to Manhattanville expansion) is suing Columbia University for moving it to a building contaminated with asbestos. This isn’t the first of Columbia’s asbestos-related issues. (Village Voice) Starbucks’ new 31-ounce Trenta cup can hold an entire bottle of wine. Oh, the possibilities! (Eater) A Connecticut pot […]

Bloomberg loves that The New Yorker thinks only Bloomberg can love Bloomberg, but New Yorkers love Bloomberg, too. (Cityroom) Realizing how greatly the were outnumbered, Wal-Mart bailed on a City Council hearing regarding their own plans to open a store in East New York. (Gothamist, NYT) Since the New York City schools chancellor attends school-closing hearings, […]

Murmurs of a Syrian revolution are beginning, though it remains unclear how many of them are coming from within the country itself. (Al Jazeera) The City Council approved a bill yesterday that prohibits smoking in a bunch of city-run public places. So basically, there’s nowhere left. Poor, poor grad students.  (Gothamist) Apparently, exercise is leading […]

According to Columbia News’ Weather-Related Update–O, that we could aspire to such truly topical titles–there will be class tomorrow, but some a lot of gates will be closed, and we should be careful because there will be “a light coating of ice.” Police are on the hunt for two campus criminals: the wall- scaling spiderman […]

A mixed bag of news graces this morning’s bwoglines, but except for the announcement that Arianna Huffington will present the keynote address at the Columbia Spectator’s Annual Awards Dinner, it’s pretty much the worst of times. A winter storm warning is in effect till Wednesday evening.  University weather related updates say, as we’d expect, school’s […]