A newish bar on the Upper West Side (alas, two blocks short of being in Morningside) has a novel concept, reports The Feedbag.

Show a receipt for your cab ride there and they'll pay for your ride-- in the form of a bar tab! Now, finally there's a reason to take a cab home after a long night downtown: Even more free drinks. Bwog can't imagine that this promo is permanent, so better take advantage of it while it lasts.

The Village Pourhouse is on Amsterdam between 108th and 109th. The Village location is at 3rd Avenue and 11th Street.

Bwog's previous review of the Pourhouse has much more information, lest we repeat ourselves.

Free food, free beer, and political pep talks. The Bwog got a summer job working for the New York City Council, and is squeezing it for all it's worth.

A couple of Columbia alumnae are planning a fundraiser for Councilman Eric Gioia, who is running for New York Public Advocate. It's at Water Taxi Beach, a dance venue by night and a beach-with-bar by day. You can wriggle your toes in the finest imported white sand, take in the view of Manhattan, and consider whether to make a contribution.

5-8pm, Wednesday, July 11th.

Directions:
Subway: take the 7 train to Vernon/Jackson and walk on 50th Avenue towards Manhattan. Turn left onto 2nd Street and continue to Borden Avenue, even with the Waterfront Crabhouse. Turn right towards the waterfront, and you are there.
Water taxi: find the pier on the East River at 34th Street, and catch a water taxi at 4:47, 5:39, or 6:32.

RSVP (to make sure there will be enough freebies) to:
misslindseysummers@gmail.com

It may feel like the beginning of second semester outside, but the 40 Days event is happening now out on Low Plaza. To the delight of many, they've got more sandwiches than one can shake a stick at. But it turns out a large bunch of seniors are in the middle of another countdown, that of Passover (5 days to go, buds) and thus can't eat the food that's currently out there. A few disgruntled tipsters have reported that all of the Kosher food was gone by 12:45.

One senior writes that there were only "10 bottles of kosher wine and 10 kosher meals" while "close to 30% of the 2000 seniors planning on attending are Jewish." Demanding an apology, the same student feels that the event "is clear case of cultural insensitivity and...should not stand, especially at a Columbia where Anti-Semitic claims are not a new thing." He would like a kiss-and make-up event after the holiday, but that would be, well, 35 days until they walk.

Thanks to Lenora Babb for the picture.

- JDC

CCSC Prez Seth Flaxman writes in to let us know there will be free edibles at the Columbia v. Duke basketball game viewing party tonight in the Lerner auditorium at 8 pm. There will also be free t-shirts and maybe some school spirit on hand.

And if you have 2 IDs, there will be alcohol, so you and ROAR-EE can drown your sorrows after what promises to be a crushing defeat.

Outcome Update, 11:45 PM:

Half an hour prior to tipoff, Roone Arledge Auditorium's lower level was packed with students anxiously beholding the giant screen, on which was projeted an inert image of a Lion and a Blue Devil clashing. A lengthy queue extended from the tables stocked with free food out onto the ramps, filled with students fixing for any one of the delicious, tailgate-style food options available. The back of the auditorium was reserved for a beer garden. The sign said "two I.D.'s to drink," but you really only needed one, or zero. Nobody cared.

Columbia captured the first lead of the game, 3-0, after a particularly fine shot. The audience erupted in rapturous and sustained cheering, especially after the Lions held their own for the opening five minutes — at the first time-out, the score was 11-10, Duke. But Columbia quickly collapsed: the trifectas stopped falling, the offense failed at inside play when kicked in the balls by its ridiculous height disadvantage, and the defense found itself overmatched against Duke's well-balanced attack (for the same reason). The Blue Devils took a 46-24 lead into halftime, and for the rest of the game, Columbia's score hovered around half of Duke's. The beer garden closed, the crowd of remaining fans dwindled, and the Lions limped to a 86-43 defeat.

- CML

Come get drunk (and fed faux-barbeque) with the Department of Political Science between five and seven this evening, at Revson Plaza. For those of you who don't know, that's the overpass in the evil shadow of the law school (but only in the mornings—tonight, Revson will be in the beneficient shadow of Philosophy Hall).

Don't forget to bring your ID!

UPDATE: All the good stuff is gone, save for a couple cubes of cheese.