If this Craigslisting is to be believed, it appears as though Cafe Fresh on 121st and Amsterdam -- the School of Social Work hangout known for its beautiful location and slow-as-molasses service -- could be up for sale.

UPDATE, 12:26pm: A call to Cafe Fresh reveals that it is not, in fact, selling itself. So the ad is either a prank, or there's another corner cafe that started 2.5 years ago selling coffee and American fare on Amsterdam avenue in the 120s.

The post says the place makes $550,000-$600,000 per year, but no word on how much they're asking. Hey, now seems like a good time to get into the restaurant business!

Also while knocking around on everyone's favorite internet marketplace, we found a benevolent reverend studying at Columbia advertising his (or her) marriage officiation services for FREE. So get off your ass and pop the question already; this offer may not be around forever

Have you been wondering why the Lerner Box Office has been boarded up for weeks? Chad Miller, Events and Outreach Manager of the Columbia Arts Initiative, has all the answers - CUArts has been working with the Office of the Provost, Columbia College, and Student Services to create an all-new Ticket and Information Center, which opens tomorrow.

According to Chad, the TIC will be selling "tickets to on-campus productions and events, discounted tickets to Broadway, Off-Broadway, first-run films and events at major cultural and arts institutions as well as information on how to connect to the arts here and around town." Tickets can be purchased with cash or credit card, and www.tic.columbia.edu promises that students will be able to use flex to pay for tickets soon. As an added bonus, anyone who buys or reserves a ticket with the TIC by March 7 gets a FREE subscription to Time Out New York. Exciting!

Sure, to a certain extent you're at the mercy of the textbook companies (a.k.a. Fun Killers). But at least you can avoid being gouged too badly by shopping around, plus avoid lines in late January: the Columbia Bookstore and Labyrinth both have course listings online, and although they're not complete, in all likelihood your calc class will have its syllabus on there. If those prices are still too high to stomach, check out campusI.com, which will compare prices at university bookstores all over the country.

Harness the power of the internet! Because you might as well do something useful while sitting on the couch surfing the net.

Beautiful beaded earrings for sale in the 6th floor SIPA lobby, complete with a man in a sombrero!

In hopes of catching you before you make that final trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond (or before you trash the packaging and receipts), Bwog asks upperclassmen which items were the most useless? The most underused? That Dust-Buster you're going to use during downtime? The ironing board that totally fits between your bed and your desk? Perhaps they belong on this list, and not on Carman 6?

• Bed Risers
• Shower caddy (rusty and grotesque after a year's tour of duty in Carman)
• Drug paraphernalia
• John Updike novels
• Ethernet cord
• Columbia sweatshirt
• One of those hanging shelf sets for the closet (it broke under the weight of 15 sweaters I never wore)
• Under the bed drawers
• Lap desk
• Pleasure reading
• Digital camcorder with all the cables, tapes and programs necessary to edit video
• All of the books I brought for reading
• A crate of paper which was like, 5 500-sheet stacks
• A suit and tie
• Windex
• Raincoat
• Bathrobe
• Slippers
• Duster
• Volumes 1-5 of Frederick Copleston's History of Philosophy
• My CD collection
• A TV
• Pencils
• Pajamas
• Plastic knives
• George Foreman mini-grill
• A printer
• A lamp that clips onto the frame of my bed
• Colored pencils
• Borges' short story collection, Labyrinths
• A coffee mug
• Binder
• A trash can
• Flash drive (thank god for gmail)
• Those stain stick things that you're supposed to carry around and rub on your shirt.