Bwog may be celebrating its third birthday tonight, but don't expect Cheerios and apple juice.

That's because the party's headed to La Negrita, at Columbus and 109th Street. Tip[ple]off is officially set at 10 p.m., but Bwog recommends you arrive earlier to guarantee entrance.

Besides welcoming in Bwog's novum annum, we'll also be rolling out the red carpet for the new February-March issue of the Blue & White, fresh from the printers. Copies will be available for party-goers tonight.

You're graciously invited -- see you soon!

As of last month, Bwog has turned three years old, and is looking forward to a full set of teeth, complete sentences, counting, and eating as many Lucky Charms as possible. Mmm, tiny marshmallows.

As such, you are pleasantly informed that the third anniversary of our birth will be celebrated on Friday at La Negrita (Columbus & 109th Street), at 10 p.m (same as last year). Come one, come all, etc.!

Editor's Note: Bwog will continue to update on the death of SEAS student yesterday, but we will also keep our regular posts going.

Bwog is told there's some kind of day of national celebration going on today, something about "football." We're not entirely sure about the sports end of it, but here's a sampling of the oft-associated carousal.

Local establishments have a few specials going on:

• The Heights: 60-cent wings, $4 pints
• 1020: $3 beers
• Havana Central: $39.95 buffet, including all-you-can-eat drink domestic drafts and sangria
• Village Pour House: $30 all-you-can-drink Bud Light (marvelous choice, no?) from kick-off to the end of the game.

Those hoping to patronize La Negrita or O'Connells, you're out of luck. Elsewhere in the city:

• SideBar (15th and Irving Place), owned by the Village Pour House folks, has offerings that are somewhat more sumptuous: a $50 "premium" open bar
• Leisure Time Bowl (8th and 42nd) boasts 30 flat-screens and is giving a free beer tower if you rent a lane for two hours, for something non-traditional.
• Kyotofu (9th and 48th) is giving away free cupcakes having a half-off sake sale for their Super Bowl haters party. There will be a screening of the Japanese film Tampopo.
  

Bwog can only find one campus group that's hosing a public viewing. Hillel offers free pizza, vague "snacks," and adjective-less "TV" on the 5th floor of the Kraft Center tonight at 6.

Update, 3:27 PM: A commenter tells us that there's a widescreen TV set up in the Broadway Sky Lounge, hosted by ResLife, Bwog assumes.

If you know of any other groups or want to invite the bwogosphere into your home, comment or email us at bwog@columbia.edu.

And if none of that suits you, you could hide in Butler and shout out the scores as the game progresses. Bwog cannot guarantee your safety in this event.

At least a hundred people turned up in the middle of Broadway at 115th to celebrate the results of tonight's election. Chants of "Obama" -- and non-specialized screaming -- were aplenty. Every time silence struck, someone would leap up on top of light posts and garbage cans to start the chants over again.

The NYPD, smiling, allowed the celebrations to continue for at least 20 minutes before beginning to break it up: "Either that way, or that way, that's where you're going. Keep it moving!"

An anonymous tipster has told Bwog that a man in a white shirt, possibly with the NYPD, told the officers trying to break it up to stop, and they turned away "sheepishly.

UPDATE, 12:55 AM: Bwog is told the party has moved uptown to 125th.

More photos and another video after the jump.

CNN has invited the Barnard Community to put on their most patriotic Barnard sweatshirts and join the cable station in Times Sq., as part of its Election Night Watch Party. CNN is offering the Barnard gals pretzels, (presumably non-alcoholic) warm beverages, heat lamps and topical political trivia!

An email sent to Barnard students explains that "VIP guests will receive priority seating and be in the best spots to be panned by the camera or interviewed by a CNN anchor. CNN asks that you wear Barnard sweatshirts, hats, and other paraphernalia so that you may be easily identified as a Barnard student."

Plus, if these pretzels, heat lamps and shot at Eternal Television Glory are enticing to enough students, CNN will arrange for a van to collect the ladies of Barnard and deposit them at the Times Sq. location.

CNN has not invited Columbia students to the fancy outdoors bash! But you can read the full email after the jump.

Bwog kicks off Halloween early this year with a special guide to two of the neighborhood's best costume purveyors, Ricky's and Possibilities @ Columbia.

You can divide the world in two camps: Those who love Halloween and those who hate it. Bwog falls into the former camp and we hope you do too. But we understand, fun is not for everyone. If you're a Halloween hater, a self-conscious self-customer or just not in the spirit yet, Bwog's here to help. Today, we're guiding you through two of Morningside Heights' most unabashed Halloween haunts, the already infamous Ricky's and Possibilities@Columbia.

Remember when famous prefrosh/Internet savant "Stephan" invited everyone in school to his Carman dorm on the first night of Orientation for a party? No?

Well it turns out the party's been relocated -- to an undisclosed location! "Why go 2 a small dorm party, or a frat. party, when you can go to the biggest Party in the city?" asks our Stephan, we believe rhetorically.

Nearly 1200 people (four guests are pictured above) have been invited to the fete, which takes place in "N.Y.C." -- that's "Now Your [sic] Coming."

Anyway, we'll see you all on August 28th, at An Undisclosed Location, for the PARTY so hot it must be capitalized. We'll meet you by the alcohol-free open bar. "The city is really strict about that, but can you say Pre-Game lol."

This weekend, America is turning 232, making it just slightly older than the Columbia College website. Traditionally, Americans celebrate their country's birthday by cooking meat on grills outdoors and then watching fireworks. For this week's Guide to the Weekend, we've consolidated a few events that will give you the opportunity to do just that.

Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular; 9PM
Prime Viewing Spots: Manhattan: East River Park, South Street Seaport, FDR Drive between 14th and 42nd Streets; Brooklyn: Greenpoint, Empire Fulton Derry State Park (in DUMBO), Brooklyn Heights Promenade

Brooklyn Independence Day Parade; Between 66th and 86th Streets on 13th Ave in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn
Head to 66th Street in Dyker Height's for the 103rd Annual Independence Day Parade! Who knew Brooklyn had a 66th Street? Featuring classic parade staples like floats and veteran marching bands.

While most of you are probably relieved to have exited Columbia's campus, free of Butler and Lerner for an entire summer, there's an entire generation of earnest young people who just can't wait for August. They were born in 1990, their SATs were probably out of 48,000, and we're calling them the Terrible 12s.

Every now and then Bwog likes to take a look at their Facebook activities, and oh what a bevy of activity there's been! A certain hyper-social member of the the Columbia - Class of 2012 group who calls himself "Stephan" has already volunteered his Carman room for a party the first night of Orientation, giving ResLife nearly three months to prepare for the task of breaking up the party.

Within another group, this one dedicated to the good folk of Carman, "Stephan", who Bwog can only hope is an English major, again advertises his fete by announcing: "we r throwin da sickest party to get the year started rite.... Carman the sexyest dorm house ever.... we're goin show these other dorms who runs shit..."

Other burning questions amongst the Terrible 12s on the "2012" group include marijuana (answer, according to one: "DO IT, DUH.") and the virtues of their own individuality ("I beat all the varsity girls [but a couple] on the crew team on my erg score [rowing machines, for those who aren't familiar with ergs] my freshman year.")

Looking forward to meeting you, 12s! See you at Stephan's party.

Despite previous statements to the contrary, the Academic Affairs Committee has invited the entirety of Columbia College to tonight's Academic Awards Ceremony. The ceremony will honor Lionel Trilling and Mark van Doren Award winners, Joseph Massad and Andrew Nathan, respectively.

The reception starts tonight in Low at 6 PM with the ceremony to follow. We're assuming the earlier proclamation of a "business-smart" dress code still applies.

For those of you stuck in Butler (or those who only have "casual-smart" or "business-mildly intelligent" wardrobes), check back for Bwog's coverage of the event.

You'll have to excuse us for our lazy morning, yesterday was Bwog's 2nd Birthday Party at La Negrita and we're still a bit tired. Bwoggers, BWers and alums aplenty migrated to 109th and Columbus (despite the slush and ice) to celebrate with drinks, Top 40 hits, and the memories of QuickSpecs and Major Columbia Controversies of yesteryear.

With a nod to Bwog's launch party, of-the-moment Columbia celebrities Judith Shaprio and David Helfand also made an appearance. (See more pictures after the jump.)

If you were at La Negrita last night, we hope you had a lovely evening. And we thank you, gentle readers, for another wonderful year.

Bwog entered the terrible twos last week, and is looking forward to teething, walking, colic, and replying to every statement with a simple "Why?"

As such, you are pleasantly reminded that the second anniversary of our birth will be celebrated tonight at La Negrita (Columbus & 109th Street), at 10 PM. Bwog will be personally offended if you aren't there, and would prefer to look back fondly on this momentous occasion. Don't miss it!

The first in a sporadic series of nightlife reports from our seasoned partygoer and would-be Carraway.

"I wasn't even going to go out tonight. I need to get a snack." So said co-best-dressed female Lauren Fabiano, on Saturday night's "Gatsby" sophomore class semi-formal. Emphasis on semi; tonight's guests seemed more James Gatz than Jay Gatsby, both in garb and in girls-over-here-boys-over-there- now-we-can-dance-a-foot-apart middle-school social networking.

Bwog freelancer Kate Linthicum followed the Potluck House kids north last night.

What do you get when 40 rambunctious college students descend on a notorious Bronx park for a moonlit drum circle? The NYPD, apparently.

The costumed revelers at last night's "Hotluck" Halloween party learned that the hard way when police swooped down on their party in Van Cortlandt park, ending the night early with a spirited sprint through the city's northernmost borough.

It all started, harmlessly enough, with a cryptic e-mail a few days before. Circulated by members of the "Potluck House," a Columbia special interest housing group, the e-mail told of a secret Halloween soiree. The organizers didn't say where it would be held, but they instructed interested partiers to congregate at 116^th and Broadway with flashlights and noise-making devices.

Dozens of students showed up, some in elaborate costumes. They milled around excitedly while one member of the Potluck House tried to prep them for the party. "Please use the buddy system," she pled. "Things might get crazy." Then she led everybody to the subway station.

Spec is only running Monday and Wednesday on this sunny, gloriously action-packed midterm week. So in the absence of our usual morning recap, we present this motley roundup of completely unrelated miscellany...

• Behold the latest email from the CC '09 class council, proving to seniors, perhaps, that they don't have it so bad. The missive begins by observing "Wollstonecraft is a hotty," and quickly goes downhill. A section titled "Free Food Just Doesn't Get Any Freer" describes the purchase and movement of the Broadway farmer's market a few meters inside, to Lerner. To wit, soon will be your "Last Chance to SEXIFY" the student center. Add an announcement for a campus group J. Sachs project called GROCC, at least three misspellings, four instances of triple exclamation points, and three announcements copied and pasted from other emails. Coda? "BEST OF LUCK ON THE MIDDIES". Beware, sophomores - it's never too early to start worrying about Class Day.

• You've probably only visited if you've taken the English department's seminar on children's literature, or if you're a GS student with a full house. The rest of us, apparently, are missing out: Bank Street Bookstore was recently named by New York magazine as the best indie book vendor (well, for kids) in town. Come to think of it, where else would you find a place featuring picture books in Urdu, Vietnamese, and Bengali - not to mention an edition of "Winnie the Pooh"...in Latin?

• Material on college sex finally running thin, the Daily News calls out Columbia students for throwing "narcissistic" parties. Which deadly sin will the tabloids tackle next week?

• Meanwhile, Dartmouth students discover a new way to be bored...as if they needed it?

-CJS