8 pm: Pop Music

In the songs on her hit debut album, “Tidal,” singer-songwriter Fiona Apple combines confessional images with solid craftsmanship. On stage, she adds an instinct for drama that makes her a compelling live performer.

* Fiona Apple at the Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Sold out. (213) 380-5005.

10 am: Art

A new exhibition mounted to coincide with the 1998 Super Bowl opens Saturday at the San Diego Museum of Art. “Box Scores . . . and Much More: The Art of the Sports Page” includes more than 60 original works created for the print media that date from 1859 and celebrate boxers, golfers and ball players of every field.

* “Box Scores . . . and Much More: The Art of the Sports Page,” San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Ends Feb. 1. $5-$8. (619) 232-7931.

10 am: Art

Betye Saar explores metaphysical, cultural and identity issues in her mixed-media exhibition “Ritual and Remembrance / Personal Icons,” opening at the California African-American Museum. Saar’s assemblages are inspired by a variety of sources, including magic, mystical art forms and belief systems, folklore and her African American heritage. They incorporate found objects such as feathers, fans and shells with the traditional art media of painting and photographs.

* “Ritual and Remembrance / Personal Icons,” California African-American Museum, 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Saturday-March 22. Museum hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. (213) 744-7432.

11 am: Movies

Jacques Doillon’s French film “Ponette” is one of the most sensitive, luminous films ever made about the very young, and it deals superbly with the complex and contradictory impact of death on a 4-year-old girl (the amazing Victoire Thivisol), who refuses to believe her mother won’t be returning after a car accident.

* “Ponette,” Monica 4-Plex, 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica. Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. $8; $5 for seniors and children under 12. (310) 394-9741.

3 pm: Theater

“A Christmas Memory” and “One Christmas,” a double helping of Truman Capote’s evocatively reminiscent holiday tales of childhood, directed by Michael Peretzian, opens at Pacific Resident Theatre.

* “A Christmas Memory” and “One Christmas,” Pacific Resident Theatre, 705 1/2 Venice Blvd., Venice, Saturday, 3 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Also Dec. 18-20, 8 p.m.; Dec. 21, 3 and 7 p.m.; Dec. 23-24, 26-27, Jan. 2-3, 8 p.m.; Dec. 28, Jan. 4, 3 p.m. Ends Jan. 4. $18. (213) 660-8587.

all day Reunion

RatFink, the infamous rodent with attitude, celebrates his 35th birthday at the 1997 RatFink Reunion in Santa Fe Springs. RatFink’s creator, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, designer and comics artist of “Kustom Kulture” fame, will attend the birthday bash, along with other artists. Black Shadows, the Eliminators, Blazin Haley and the Hot Rod Trio are scheduled to perform, an auction is planned, and food and RatFink memorabilia will be sold throughout the day.

* 1997 RatFink Reunion, Mooneyes, 10820 S. Norwalk Ave., Santa Fe Springs. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. (562) 944-6311.

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FREEBIE: Philippine holiday family celebration at Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, 1 p.m. (626) 449-2742.