Find yourself hitting the snooze button every morning? Try to stop doing that—it’s ruining your alertness. (Pacific Standard) Here in New York City, you’d be hard-pressed to find a place more than a few minutes’ walk away from the nearest Starbucks. So how did the company grow from one store in Seattle to dominating coffee? […]

The storefront formerly occupied by P&W Sandwich Shop—which closed in December 2011 on account of “lease termination”—has a new tenant. That would be Insomnia Cookies, a business which delivers cookies to your dorm until 3 a.m. and can evidently afford the new lease. So, Bwog views this development with mixed feels. On the one hand, […]

Photo: The New York Times Corey Haim, dead at 38. (New York Post) Two Columbians have made it to the next round of the STA World Traveler Internship competition. Go ahead and vote for Spencer Oberman, GS ’12, and Reni Calister, BC ’11–you can even pick both of ’em! (STA Travel, which doesn’t actually stand […]