“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

Staff Writers Olivia Chiroiu, Gina Brown, and Erika Avallone took a trip to Latenite!

 Two Bwog veterans took on this year’s Latenite coverage…. and loved it

How to get the library table of your dreams in seven, slightly questionable steps.

On Thursday, September 29, Deputy News Editor Paulina Rodriguez and Staff Writers Katie Christian and Manny Gonzalez attended a discussion with comedian Joanna Hausmann and professor Frances Negrón-Muntaner, hosted by Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies.

A portly microbiologist, a starving child-laborer, and a mono-pedal Santa impersonator walk into a party. But this isn’t a bad joke. It’s the inciting incident for Celebration, a 2019 black comedy set and filmed—and then banned—in Russia.

Who couldn’t use a little comedic relief during finals?

Looks cool, right Tickets for the 122nd Annual Varsity Show go on sale today! Get yours here. The show is on April 29th and 30th at 8 PM. There will also be a matinee on May 1st at 2 PM along with a night show at 8 PM. Whether or not you went to the West End […]

And now for something actually light: Fruit Paunch, Columbia’s improv comedy group, is having their annual 24-hour show from 5 p.m. tonight (a.k.a. right now) until 5 p.m. tomorrow. As you may have guessed, they’ll be doing improv for those 24 hours straight — no pause, no breaks for air. If you need a 24-hour […]

Tonight at 9pm Jester presents The Varisty Show in the Lerner Blackbox. The Facebook description puts it best: THIS IS THE VARISTY SHOW. DON’T BELIEVE THE RUMORS, THIS IS THE REAL VARISTY SHOW. WE ARE THE JESTER YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY TRUST US, WE ARE TELLING THE TRUTH THIS IS THE REAL VARISTY SHOW. DO YOU […]

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. Recommended “Affirmative Action: Past, Present and Future” Monday, April 16, 9:00 […]

Tonight may be dreary, but that’s no reason to spend it in your room pining for Thanksgiving Break. Not when some of Columbia’s funniest comedians will be at tonight’s Improvapalooza! To get a taste of the laughs they have in store for us, we asked some of the groups in the show a series of […]

On Tuesday, Bwog sat down with Bob Vulfov, CC ’13, and Eli Grober, CC ’13, to talk about comedy, blowjobs, and their new show “Just F*cking Laugh At Me!” Here’s an (abridged) transcript of our conversation. Bwog: So why did you decide to write the show? Bob: We wrote the show because we wanted to […]

LateNite Theatre presented the first showing of its fall anthology last night. Bwog’s own Peter Sterne reports. Last night, LateNite presented a series of six short plays written, directed by, and starring members of the Columbia community, as they have for the past 15 years. All of them were quite funny, though they varied in […]

Spotted on the outer wall of John Jay, a doodle to cheer you up, then make you sad, then cheer you up, then…