The Riverside Church needs your help! Today is the last major volunteering day for Hurricane Sandy Relief/Recovery. Sundays are typically their busiest and least staffed days. You can stop by to lend your time or bring a donation at any point until 7pm tonight. Volunteer efforts have recently transitioned from relief to recovery. Many displaced people now […]

Riverside Church is collecting food on 110th Street. Give if you can! Image via Wikimedia Commons

With much pomp and circumstance, Debora L. Spar has been officially crowned Queen of Barnard. Seriously: with this much hoopla, Spar may as well have been garbed in ermine-trimmed gown robes rather than her hot pink academic raiment. But despite the monarchical overtones, and how long it all took, Bwog enjoyed taking in the ceremony […]

Earlier this week, Riverside Church passed around this undoubtedly urgent security bulletin: “Just a heads up: Incredible Productions, LLC. — are the producers of the film ‘The Hulk’—due out 2008. They will be flying a helicopter around the Riverside Church Tower (500 feet minimum distance—FAA standard) to shoot footage for the film. Please note the […]

In which Bwog freelancer Kate Linthicum reports on a very special day.  There was more than humidity in the air Thursday. At The Riverside Church there was love.   Yesterday afternoon ten couples were wed in a mass ceremony as part of “Marry Your Baby Daddy Day.” The wedding, which was free for all the […]