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By Tracy Zwick
January 2nd through 4th
Columbia Women’s Basketball v. Cornell: Saturday, January 3rd at 2 p.m.; Levien Gymnasium at Columbia University, 3030 Broadway at West 120th Street; tickets $15
The reigning Ivy League Women’s Basketball Champions start their title defense this Saturday at home at 2 p.m. My kids and I used to love getting right up close to the action at Columbia’s intimate Levien Gym, cheering on the Lions basketball squad alongside Roar-ee, the school’s adorable furry mascot. These games are fun regardless of whether the team’s any good, but these Lions are very good. They’re on a five-game winning streak. They’ll face Cornell’s Big Red, who recently lost to Stanford 50-82. This is Columbia’s first conference game of the season.
Check out the “Wolf Moon” with Urban Park Rangers: Saturday, January 3rd from 5 to 6:30 p.m.; Inwood Hills Park at West 218th Street. and Indian Road; free (no registration required)
If you’ve been hoping to catch and learn about a supermoon, your opportunity has arrived. The full “wolf moon” this Saturday will appear bigger and brighter than usual, and it’s the last supermoon New Yorkers will see until November 2026. The Urban Park Rangers will guide visitors through the skies this Saturday in upper Manhattan, talking with attendees about the science, history and folklore of the full moon. This program will feature the use of telescopes and binoculars.
Tour a Working Research Vessel at Pier 25: Thursday to Sunday, free tours are offered throughout the day; available times & reservations here; 353 West Street in Hudson River Park near West Houston
The R/V Robert Gray, a historic 125-foot oceanographic research vessel, is visiting Hudson River Park this winter, and 45-minute tours, led by working crew members, are available to all. The Voyagers Club is inviting guests aboard for a series of immersive dockside tours, during which they’ll offer information about ocean science, exploration, and our developing understanding of the sea and our place on and within it. Tours are free, capped at 40 people per tour, and open to the public.
Broadway & Movies!
The holiday stretch that’s ending this weekend is a peak culture moment, and we’ve got plenty to catch up on right on the UWS. On the movie front, “Marty Supreme” is playing everywhere, and, as its omnipresent marketing makes clear, the movie stars the UWS’s own Timothée Chalamet. (Chalamet went to school from kindergarten through college on the UWS.) If you’d rather see less-heralded awards contenders while they’re still in theaters, “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian thriller, which I saw at Film at Lincoln Center, is a lock for a Best International Feature nomination. While “Peter Hujar’s Day,” a small but riveting film about the iconic NYC photographer that was one of my 23-year-old daughter’s favorite films of the year, is more of a dark horse. “Blue Moon,” another short but exquisite film – this one about legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart, played by Ethan Hawke – was one of my faves of 2025. It’s at New Plaza Cinema this weekend, on West 67th Street, as are “The Choral,” starring Ralph Fiennes, and “Sentiimental Value,” director Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning follow-up to his beloved “The Worst Person in the World.” It stars Elle Fanning.
As for Broadway, I saw “Stranger Things” on Broadway over the holidays with two devotees of the Netflix show, which aired its series finale on New Year’s Eve, and someone who’d never seen it. All three loved the Marquis Theater’s production on West 46th Street.
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