Most people associate pumpkin with only two things: pumpkin pie and jack o’ lanterns. What we often forget is that this fantastic squash has many other uses. It can easily cross the border between sweet and savory. This Halloween, be more adventurous with your pumpkin! Here are four fantastic uses for pumpkin: 1. Pumpkin Soup […]

It’s almost Halloween-long-weekend, and you know what that means. Dressing up as a Lit Hum character, throwing up on someone else’s costume, and Bwog’s annual costume contest! Send us pictures of your costume at tips@bwog.com and if you win, we’ll buy you some beer and candy. Plus, you’ll be famous forever. Happy Halloween, friends! See […]

    Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! For those of you haven’t decided how to spend your fall break yet, Raphaelle Debenedetti and Gabby Beans offer an array of zany and spooky things to do for Halloween in the city. Free Events (all info here) The Village Halloween Parade The Brewery The Furniture Factory The Knitting Factory […]

Eric Grossman explores a hidden nook: the TV Graveyard on 116th. Spooky! Topical! Like any institution, Columbia has no shortage of gritty, dark recesses and maintenance staff (which are not necessarily related) on which to maintain its stately veneer. While some breathe in the light of day, others go unseen to the common eye. So, […]

Gerry Visco sent out an epic email to the Classics Department regarding their Halloween lunch!  Check out the excerpt below. We’ll also celebrate Halloween and its precursor, Samhain, the Celtic festival of the dead.  Whoever is able to throw together the best costume will win a prize of a gift certificate from Book Culture. Please […]

In the spirit of Bwog’s favorite (and upcoming!) holiday, Saturday Morning Cartoons presents you with three typical terrors. Cartoon by Abigail Santner

It has been a riveting week here in Morningside Heights. Bwog brings you our weekly roundup of new and exciting things to ponder and post Facebook statuses about. Morton Williams is no longer carrying peaches, because it is a beacon of the local food movement. Morton Williams has decorated for Halloween, because Halloween is a […]

All Hallows’ Eve approaches! Morton Williams displays their Halloween cheer with fall foliage, cotton cobwebs and toy tricker-treaters. Those guys are seriously styled, by the way. Love the bow-ties. But don’t worry, Morningside decorations aren’t all this wholesome. In the coming weeks, get ready for trampy vampires, naughty nurses and totally unnecessary thigh highs. If Mean Girls […]

It’s Halloween (cue spooky organ music riff du-da-duuuuuuu dudadalududu), so we all know what that means. Bwog’s Cinematic Summaries Bureau Chief Mark Hay is obligated by law (specifically, the infamous Carpathian Dracula Convention of 1935) to conjure up a spo-o-o-oky Halloween Netflix list, with  three spine-shivering tales of the supernatural. Bwa-ha-ha-ha! The Orphanage (2007) The […]

Just in time for the procrastinators amongst us, here’s the Halloween-focused half of our Guide to the Weekend. Friday Last minute shopping: Costumes: Abracadabra Superstore 19 West 21st St, hours: 11am – 9 pm Spirit Halloween Superstore 2320 Broadway at 84th st, hours 11am – 9pm Candy in bulk: Economy Candy 108 Rivington St Friday […]

It’s an alternate Wednesday! That means an update from the TIC on what performances are striking Columbia’s fancy these days.  Here are your top 5: 5. The Age of Iron. Shakespeare meets the Trojan War – what could be better? 4. The Met Opera’s “Faust.” 3. The Lion King, down from it’s #1 spot. 2. […]

Know what you’re going to be for Halloween? Neither do we. With three days to go, it’s time to give in and get serious—you’re not going to buck gender normativity this year, pal. But all is not lost, with this list of easy-to-find, last minute costumes. Hustle over to Ricky’s (you know you’ve always wanted […]

As per usual, a hundred or so bikes gathered last night in Union Square for Critical Mass, the solidaristic bike ride that takes over streets in cities all over the country once a month. This time, though, at least half of the riders seemed only vaguely…human. A plunger, a Joker, a husky dog, and all […]

Bwog received some rather impressive Costume Contest submissions, the but the unanimous forerunner thus far is from Ms. Caroline Corley, CC ’12, who dressed us as “an NYU student.”   Think your costume is better? Send in a picture today, during this Extended Contest Time, and prove it. In the meantime, check out two other […]

Tonight, many of you will be affixing costumes or cardboard or facepaint to yourselves, sacrificing sartorial control to the great Gods of Halloween. So, Bwog’s announcing our annual Halloween Costume Contest, in which you are invited to send us photographs of your chilling and charming outfit this evening. For historical background, note that last year’s […]