One singer + one keyboard player + one flutist + one moderately creepy man milling about = Christian music awesomeness. Low Plaza. Right now. Bwog is not sure how long this will last, so act fast.

The god Rumor has spoken: Ghostface Killah will be playing the annual Bacchanal concert this Saturday, 2:00 pm on Low Steps. Ghostface, the Wu Tang Clan member whose most recent album Fishcale debuted this month at #4 on the Billboard charts, has emerged since his 1996 solo debut as the group’s most consistently innovative lyricist. […]

Band members, would-be band members, and people who just like to wear skinny jeans and slip-ons congregated in lower level Macintosh at the WBAR-b-q this afternoon to celebrate the cream of CU/Barnard’s indie crop. And eat burgers and drink beer. Combined with lazing in parks and chucking around various objects, could an idyllic spring Saturday […]

The College Days BBQ is going on NOW between SIPA and EC (see events calendar). Two reasons to go: free food and some Columbia students rocking out on stage. Well, like we said, one reason to go.

There is currently a bagpiper outside of the 118th Street entrance to SIPA. No word yet on whether he is using the luscious sounds of his, um, pipes to crash a SIPA party.

Guess who’s coming to the Varsity Show this year? That’s right, you guessed it… Art Garfunkel, C ’65, of Simon and Garfunkel fame. Yes, that raconteur, stealer of hearts, and dreamer of dreams is coming back to Alma to receive the Varsity Show’s annual I.A.L. Diamond Award, which goes to a Columbia alumnus who has […]

Exploding syringes of nitric acid. Animal testing. And a band called ‘Vector Sum.’ B&W staffer Anna Corke talked with chem grad student Paul Vadola to discover the secret life of chem students. Why did you decide to go into chemistry? I was a premed bio major. Organic chemistry is part of the premed package and […]

Carly Hoogendyk, Carman RA, reports: Everyone’s favorite security guard and vocalist is now soliciting his newest musical offering to Columbia freshmen just looking to swipe into Carman. Michael Lane has come out with a second album of him doing what he does best: singing over karaoke tracks. Lane opens with Santana’s “Smooth” and ends, creepily […]

Anna Corke sez: A chem major just told me that if you plug your computer into an ethernet port in Havemeyer, you can share music over iTunes with undergrad chemistry Professor Leonard Fine! His collection includes such favorites as Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” The Killers, and Bruce Springsteen. Meanwhile, the Bwog continues to listen to […]

Your parents are paying $40,000 a year for you to sleep through class, your hipster jeans cost more than rent on a studio apartment—but now the Bwog offers you a way to see the city: for free. Some of our favorite haunts: Highline Beginning around 34th Street near 10th Avenue (which used to be called […]