Columbia is filled to the brim with unique and interesting people. But let’s be honest, how many of them can say they have 13 solo albums and are a superstar in the world of Hasidic music?  Probably only Lipa Schmeltzer, a GS student and father of four. Music mavens Tom Kicak and Dylan Cooper interviewed […]

Thursday night, The Journalism School hosted a lecture of its Delacorte Lecture Series featuring Martha Stewart, BC ’63, and her work in the Journalism field with her magazine publications. Martha Maven Courtney Couillard went out to see what the original queen bee had to say. The moment I read that Martha Stewart would be speaking at […]

Columbia is no stranger to cool and alternative web shows and radio stations that make us wish we were as angsty and hip as the hosts. Swimming—better yet, doggy paddling?—in the pool of Internet broadcast, Amelia Arnold and Lauren Beltrone, BC ’16 and BC ’17 respectively, have started their own podcast titled “I’m Too Skinny and Too Many Boys Like […]

Late one night, Bwog received this tip from an enterprising Butlerite: An archaic fix to an archaic problem: one of the stalls in the men’s room outside butler 209 has had a broken lock for YEARS. It took one brave, yet disgruntled mechanical engineering student to finally do something about it. Your not-so-anonymous tipster/resident tinkerer, […]

Last week, Bwog sat down with Mitch Swenson, a General Studies student who recently traveled to Syria as a war reporter. So, sneaking into Syria to report on the war: how do you do that? How does one get started? Originally, I contacted two journalists that were working for an outfit called War Is Boring, […]

Perhaps you’ve seen them walking around, wearing a costume that’s definitely cooler than yours. Perhaps you’ve scoffed at how “into Haloween” they are, or the sheer absurdity of even trying so hard. Perhaps you’re just a huge fan. Regardless of your stance, Diego Zogbhi, one time Bwog Costume Contest honorable mention (submit yours!), is clearly […]

Bwog sat down with Timothée Chalamet, CC’17, who recently finished filming a role in Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar (in addition to guest starring in Homeland on Showtime and Royal Pains in USA). After missing NSOP for the movies, he’s settling into his first year and planning to limit shoots over breaks. Movie-obsessed senior staff […]

You may not know it, but Columbia is home to the recent winner of a national Campus DJ competition. Sophomore Nick Perloff goes by DJ Flaxo in his on-duty hours, and we sat down with him to hear about his dream venue and find out whether DJs still have nice headphones. Bwog: Why Flaxo? Nick: […]

While most Columbians took trains, planes or cars, Zoë Danner, CC ’17, rode her motorcycle to school. From Alaska. Bwog was fascinated and terrified. Zoë admits she’s a tad tired of being known as ‘motorcycle girl’ but was happy to share her experiences of the Road with motorcycle enthusiast Miranda Kantor. And of bison.  Bwog: […]

A few months ago, Kaylin Mahoney, CC ’15, decided to drop everything, move to Rome, and blog about it. A few days ago, she sat down with Bwog (virtually—she’s in Italy, after all) for an interview. Bwog: How long were you at Columbia? Will you ever come back? Kaylin: I completed one and a half […]

For the second year in a row, Katie Meili CC ’13 is heading to the NCAA Championships after a stellar performance at Ivies, which this year included three individual titles, two Ivy League records, the Swimmer of the Meet title (for the second straight year), and the Career High Point Swimmer title. Her blistering times earned […]

After cutting off all of his shoulder-length hair his sophomore year to give to Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths, which makes wigs for people with medically-related hair loss, Julian Bongiorno SEAS ‘13 started growing his hair out again, but he wanted to up the ante for his next go around. The mechanical engineering major from Scottsdale, Arizona […]

CC junior Danny Murcia—or as he’s credited on Pitbull’s track “Outta Nowhere,” Danny Mercer—signed with Columbia Records and has worked with the likes of Will.i.am, Nicole Scherzinger, Dr. Luke, and of course, Mr.305. An English major, founding member of the campus a cappella group Sharp, and one degree of separation from Beyoncé, the Renaissance Man […]

If you’ve turned on the news in the past three weeks, you’ve probably heard of Manti Te’o, the Samoan Mormon Notre Dame linebacker (like that’s not news enough) whose tragic losses in his personal life propelled him to lead the Fighting Irish to the National Championship game. You’ve also probably heard that Lennay Kekua, Te’o’s girlfriend who was […]

Theo Papageorge, CC’13 took a year off from Columbia to–what else?–move across the country to LA and work in the music industry.  Rusko personally listened to Theo’s music and asked him to open a show this summer.  Bwog dusted off our limited DJ vocab and tried to be cool. Bwog: How long have you been DJing? […]