By Tracy Zwick
February 27th through 29th
Columbia Men’s Basketball: Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 6 p.m. at Levien Gymnasium, 3030 Broadway at West 120th Street; tickets start at $22
The last men’s basketball home games of the season tip-off Friday and Saturday nights. Friday night the Lions will face Brown University at 7 p.m. The theme of the evening is “Heroes Night,” and the team is offering free tickets for all active military, veterans, and members of the FDNY and NYPD, plus a free travel bag for the first 300 fans to arrive. Saturday’s game against Yale at 6 p.m. will be “Seniors Night,” honoring the graduating members of the team, and “Fan Appreciation Night” with a free item for the first 300 fans. The Lions are coming off a last-second loss to Dartmouth earlier in the week and looking to end the home season strong.
Mavis Staples: at the Beacon Theater, Saturday at 8 p.m.; 2124 Broadway at West 74th Street; tickets start at $63
The legendary 86-year-old singer Mavis Staples is on the road promoting her 14th studio album, “Sad and Beautiful World,” which will bring her to the UWS’s Beacon Theater Saturday night. Writing and singing for decades about civil rights, faith, loss, and family, Staples is “an American institution” according to The New York Times. Folk Alley wrote, in reviewing Staples’s latest: “If there’s a single album we should all be listening to right now, it’s ‘Sad and Beautiful World.’” She may have been at this for a long, long time, but if you ask me or my 23-year-old daughter, who will join me this Saturday at the Beacon, Mavis Staples just keeps getting better.
Living History: Clothing of Enslaved Women and Reclaiming Black Humanity at New York Historical; Sunday, March 1st from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 170 Central Park West at West 77th Street; free with museum admission (tickets here)
Clothing historian and maker Cheyney McKnight will speak with visitors to New York Historical this weekend about what clothing enslaved women wore and how clothing played and continues to play a role in independence, decision-making, and freedom. She’ll be piecing, sewing and fitting a dress while visitors observe, and discussing how most women and girls in 18th century New York, including those enslaved, had their clothes handmade by a particular tradesperson. While you’re at New York Historical, check out rare, historical printings of the Declaration of Independence, and the surrounding exhibition, which focuses on the ideas and beliefs that undergird that document.
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