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All day: Movies

In Woody Allen’s 1980 comedy “Stardust Memories,” Allen plays a famed director-comic who is besieged by critics who keep saying, “I like your old movies better, the funny ones.” From their mouths to the movie god’s ears: For three days the New Beverly revival theater is presenting a Woody Allen Triple Bill of the writer-director-actor’s early comedies: “Bananas” (1971), “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)” (1972), and “Sleeper” (1973).

* “Bananas,” “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex,” “Sleeper,” New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd. Sunday-Tuesday. Call theater for show times. $2.50-$5. (323) 938-4038.

6 pm: Nostalgia

Put on your best 1980s garb and join KROQ’s Richard Blade for the 1998 Depeche Mode Convention at the Palace. DJ Daniel “The Brat” will spin hits and rare mixes from the all-synthesized English rock band at this dance party, which also offers nonstop screenings of DM videos and collectibles for sale. It’s “Music for the Masses” baby!

* 1998 Depeche Mode Convention, 6 p.m.-midnight. The Palace, 1735 N. Vine St., Hollywood. $20. (626) 967-7811.

7 pm: Music

Garrison Keillor chooses summer on the road over summer at Lake Wobegon this year. After a show Wednesday night at Universal Amphitheatre, he takes his Hopeful Gospel Quartet to Irvine’s Barclay Theatre Sunday for another stop on the First Pre-Millennium Tour. Keillor is the founder and host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” a public radio staple since 1974, and the author of nine books, including most recently, “Wobegon Boy.”

* Garrison Keillor and the Hopeful Gospel Quartet, Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. $35-$55. (949) 854-4646 or (714) 740-2000.

7 pm: Theater

Ron Sossi directs a timely revival of “Little Murders,” Jules Feiffer’s satire about meaningless violence in America.

* “Little Murders,” Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m., except Sept. 13, Sept. 27, 2 p.m. only. Ends Oct. 4. $18.50-$22.50; opening, $25. (310) 477-2055.

Noon: Culture

Two new exhibitions at the UCLA Fowler Museum offer a rare glimpse into life in the Philippines: “Confrontations, Crossings, and Convergence: Photographs of the Philippines and the United States, 1898-1998” opened Wednesday, and “Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera, Philippines” opens Sunday. In addition, the museum is host of an opening reception Sunday with slide-illustrated lectures by curators Roy Hamilton, Pearlie Rose Salaveria Baluyut and Cherubim A. Quizon, flag-making activities for kids and a traditional Philippine dance performance by folkloric dancers from Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts, BIBAK Dance Ensemble, Kultura Philippine Folk Arts and other community groups.

* “Confrontations, Crossings, and Convergence,” through Jan. 3. “Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera, Philippines,” through March 21. Opening-day celebration, 2-6 p.m. Sunday. UCLA/Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 405 Hilgard Ave. Museum hours: Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m.; Thursday, noon-8 p.m. Admission free. (310) 825-4361.

6 pm: Jazz

This year’s edition of JVC Jazz at the Bowl plugs in with the bands of R&B-styled; saxophonist Grover Washington Jr., electric-acoustic guitarist Lee Ritenour, keyboardist and onetime Jazz Crusader Joe Sample and the beat-minded Grey Boy All Stars. Party music? You bet!

* JVC Jazz at the Bowl, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave. $10-$65. (323) 850-2000.

FREEBIE: “Cables, Plugs, Flowers and Bugs” family day, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, noon. (949) 759-1122.