The 2013 issue of Quarto, the official lit mag of Columbia’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Department, launches tonight at 9pm in 501 Dodge. The contributors will be reading their work, there will be free catered food, and everyone gets a free copy of Quarto volume LXIV. Contributors to Quarto 2013 are as follows: Michael Blair Andrea Boerem […]

This evening, to celebrate the end of Earth Week, there will be a festival on Lehman Lawn from 7-10pm. There will be free food, performance groups, activities, and prizes (dining dollars as well as actual prizes). More information on the event (and the events from this past week) can be found here. The beautiful young […]

As your yearnings for summer are quashed by a brick wall of constant work for the next few weeks, step aside from it all for a few hours by taking advantage of the cultural opportunities of Columbia and the city. Ambrosial Arts Editor Kyra Bloom has put together the following assuredly kick-ass events. Submit an […]

Though Earth Day was on Monday, you can continue to get your fill of all things green and good for the environment with EcoReps’ events for today: 12 pm: EcoLions Shoe Drive at Lerner Table 3. 12 pm: Free seeds and pots for planting, outside of Furnald. 3:15 pm: Tour of Sun Works Center for […]

Hungry for some environmental consciousness? The Barnard EcoReps are organizing a Potluck today at 6PM in Altschul—come enjoy some free food and learn about how to lower your carbon footprint. Other green events today: Jacqueline Ottoman is speaking about green marketing at 6 PM in Hamilton 517 in an event organized by Consilience. CleanEdison is screening Carbon […]

What better way to celebrate this gorgeous Saturday, April the 20th, than by watching a film with your fellow students? One of Bacchanal’s slightly less well-known events — the annual 4/20 movie screening — is happening tonight, and the entertainment of choice is, appropriately, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Bacchanal’s advertising some free popcorn and fruit, so […]

Things Bwog loves and you should love too: The Earth Free food The Wallach Lounge (…duh) EcoReps is kicking off Earth Week tonight with free food in the Wallach Lounge from 7 to 8:30 pm. Now you can love your planet and your belly! It doesn’t get much better than that, folks.  

If you thought the free food for the day was over, hold onto your socks before we knock them off. Columbia Student Global AIDS Campaign will have free Thai food from Longgrain for your taking, as well as a discussion on how tax changes for big banks could affect society. The event’s in Dodge Room […]

Wondering what’s going on at Low Plaza right now? It’s a language fair for less commonly studied languages at Columbia going on until 5 pm today. Dutch, Persian, Czech, Finnish, Swahili, and Wolof sound nifty to learn (and are featured today), and we heard that instructors are serving food from the respective cultures too. More […]

Hungry for both pizza and knowledge about efforts to improve health care in post-earthquake Haiti? Well, luckily for you, GlobeMed is hosting a panel, “Challenges in Global Health: Stories from Haiti’s Front Lines”, today from 6: 30 to 8 in the Ella Weed Room (Milbank 223) and there will be free pizza! More info about […]

Hey there, sports fans! Come on out to Baker Field tonight to watch SigEp the Columbia Men’s Rugby Team square-off against their rivals from the City of Scrap Metal-y Love, the Yale Bulldogs. Not only will spectators of the scrum be treated to what is sure to be an exciting match, but also the first […]

Due to inclement weather (boy does that sunshine seem long ago), the WBAR concert tomorrow (Friday) is being moved from the lawn to the Event Oval on LL1 of the Diana Center.  Doors open at 4:45 pm, show starts at 5 pm. On a similar vein, please note that security will be checking for CUIDs at […]

If you’re a junior, there are two things you need to be doing today: 1) Making sure you’re on track to graduate on time 2) Gorging yourself on delicious Junior’s cheesecake What’s that? You can be doing both at the same time?! Incredible! If you’re a junior, come to Lerner 403 between 7 and 9 […]

Club Bangla & CU SEWA will be handing out free Indian food today in celebration of Boishakhi/Vaisakhi—the start of spring and the beginning of the new year. Head over to Low Plaza and get your freeloading on between 1 pm and 5 pm today! There will be an open dance floor, performances and delicious biryani/kabobs/vegetarian appetizers for […]

Hungry? For food? For knowledge? Attend today’s lecture “The Inner City as a Global Space” and feed both! Talk about the relation between global issues and urban settings while munching on a free lunch. The lecture will begin at 12:30 PM in the IAB and will be given by Columbia’s own Professor Sudhir Venkatesh. Bring […]