Morningside property owner Luis Nunez just got busted for posing as a landlord and stealing $879,000 in rent money from CU students and other people. Naughty naughty! (DNAinfo) Word to the wise: don’t do drugs! Or rather, don’t do drugs and run around naked in a parking lot. (Gawker) The accreditation process was the hot topic […]

Give me Four Loko, or give me death!  Or at least don’t ban it. (Spec) In case you haven’t heard yet, we have a Five Guys coming!  Their burgers taste good. (DNAinfo) Peek into the lives of Jake and Marty La Salle CC ’07 under the big-top, on a new PBS series. (NYT) Democracy happened […]

The New York Times blogs from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in D.C.! The Medical Center and Harvard have discovered that women who drink large quantities of alcohol are at greater risk for mouth cancer. (Health News Digest) Crime in Central Park almost doubles this year. (NY Daily News) Honor-system? What’s dat? (Gothamist) […]

Stressed? Perhaps it’s not the midterms but the lethal noise levels in 98% of Manhattan’s public spaces that’s making us all a little foufou. (NY Post) As bedbugs ravage the city, some go to extreme (and crazy) measures to deal with infestation. (NY Daily News) In case you missed it, watch Obama vs. Jon Stewart and get […]

Sheen was found drunk and naked in an NYC hotel room–and he was rushed to our very own Columbia Presbyterian Hospital! (People) Check out this Bhagavad Gita piece by PBS, with our own Professor of Sanskrit Sheldon Pollock and Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Hindu chaplain the Bhakti Club. (Learner) Todd Combs, CBS grad, is slated to […]

Todd Combs, a 39-year-old Connecticut hedge fund manager and an alum of the B-School, will manage a “significant portion” of Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio. (Bloomberg) Lisa Anderson, formerly the dean of SIPA, has been named the President of the American University in Cairo. (PR Newswire) The molester of a “Morningside Heights toddler” has been convicted on […]

Burger Battle! Five Guys Burgers and Fries is opening nearby Mel’s. According to Zagat, Five Guys bested In-and-Out for favorite fast food. Decisions, Decisions… (CityBiz) Pop-country princess Taylor Swift drops her new confessional album today. Team Tay Tay! (MTV) Yesterday, the Times devoted its Metropolitan section to the Subway system: pictures,  poodles and profiling. Apparently […]

Proving that our generation has plenty of entrepreneurial spirit, a pair of Georgetown students was found with all the makings of DMT in a freshman dorm. (WaPo) International man of mystery and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made another huge document release, this time pertaining to US involvement in Iraq. (NYT) The British government is […]

Books have been deemed unnecessary. (Telegraph) Professor Joseph Stiglitz talks about money and stuff. (Daily Finance) Breaking: Letting children play with smart phones is bad for their development. (Today’s THV) Floridita shall live on. (Spec) Midterms may be stressful, but don’t start bashing cars. (Gothamist) Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Columbia history Ph.D. student Megan Doherty strikes back at Glenn Beck. (HuffPo) Taiwanese CGI animates those creepy bed bugs that have been taking over our lives! (Gothamist) Riding the subway can often be a trial. Subway door-standers don’t make things any better. (City Room) Maryland company rents drug-sniffing dogs to paranoid parents. (Gawker) This year’s […]

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor of our own CU Orchestra, debuted yesterday as conductor of the LA Philharmonic, for the concert “Green Umbrella: Bang on a Can.” A federal judge in California overturned DADT, and has ordered military recruiters to start accepting gay recruits. (NYT) The J-School is making a news outlet website for NYC. (NY Convergence) […]

Have you ever wondered what a dinosaur would taste like? Now you know. (Slate) Get your tinfoil helmets! The government doesn’t want pesky technical problems getting in the way of its wiretapping. (NYT) Elton John declares today’s pop music uninspiring and dislikes TV talent shows, calling them “arse-paralysingly brain crippling.” (New York) Community activists in […]

Approaching its $4 Billion capital campaign goal, Columbia is raking in the dough (Spec). Learn to bike like a champ. The cycling master who taught Joseph Gordon-Levitt to barrel down Broadway demonstrates how to “be a fish in the coral.” (City Room). Obama hits the road. (NYTimes) Way back when on October 18th, the United […]

Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ has banned the alcoholic energy drink Four Loko. Let’s hope this disturbing trend stays in Jersey. Or not. (CBS New York) Princeton’s endowment posted a mere 14.7% gain last year, to Columbia’s 17%. (NYT) The New Museum’s latest exhibit contains a newspaper on the end of newspapers. (Capital NY) This […]

Columbia recently hosted the first Elites Research Network conference. (NYT) Sinkholes be crampin’ Bwog’s style. (Gothamist) A Columbia biomedical engineer designed a device that diagnoses illnesses at bedside. (PhysOrg) HuffPo claims that this is one of the busiest weekends they’re ever reported. Go have fun! Image via Wikimedia Commons