LONE PINE--This city’s place in movie history...

LONE PINE--This city’s place in movie history is celebrated at next weekend’s Lone Pine Film Festival. Tours ($8-$35) take visitors to sites in the Alabama Hills, where shooting for “Gunga Din,” “High Sierra” and other classics took place. Westerns filmed in Lone Pine will be screened in the high school auditorium, at Muir Street and U.S. 395, throughout the festival ($3). At Lone Pine Park on U.S. 395 (9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday), and a parade (1 p.m. Sunday). 1-10:30 p.m. Friday, 8:30 a.m.-midnight Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission to park, parade. (760) 876-4314.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO--Yarns will be spun at three venues on El Camino Real during the Storytelling Festival. Highlights include spooky late-night tales, music and stories for tots, and bilingual performances. 6:30-11 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-10:15 p.m. Saturday Tickets are $3-$15; 15 and under $3-$4. (714) 768-1916.

FRESNO--The Big Fresno Fair, through this week, finishes with a flourish at Sunday’s Big Fresno Fiesta. A ballet folklorico group and three mariachi bands, --including the highly regarded Mariachi Sol de Mexico--will perform. 1-9 p.m. at the Paul Paul Theater. The fiesta includes a mercado, with free carnival games and prizes. The fair features an array of exhibits, with livestock and agricultural showcases, carnival, music concerts, demolition derby and more. $7; $4 children 12 and under. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11:30-midnight Friday; 10:30 a.m.-midnight Saturday; 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday. (209) 650-3247.

SAN FRANCISCO--The Great Halloween and Pumpkin Festival scares up some fun on Polk Street with pie-eating and pet-costume contests, crafts vendors and music on three stages. A range of food will be for sale at outdoor cafes, and kids can trick-or-treat. Free admission. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 18-19. (415) 346-4446.

GOLETA--Lemon sherbet, lemon chicken sausage and lemon cotton candy, washed down with lemonade, will be among fare for sale at the Lemon Festival, Oct. 18-19. Entertainment will include music, dancing and lemon-pie-baking and -eating contests. About 30 crafters will sell their work. Free admission. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at 304 N. Los Carneros Road. (805) 967-4618.

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