6 pm: Festival

Even if you haven’t scored a ticket to the Super Bowl, you can still get in the spirit at San Diego’s Super Fest XXXII. The free entertainment festival in downtown’s Gaslamp Quarter will include four outdoor stages with bands, magicians, jugglers, performing-arts groups, beer gardens and a children’s venue featuring wild animal presentations by the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, and Sea World characters. Headlining bands include the Violent Femmes, Neville Brothers, Sister Hazel, Ozomatli, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, Skanic, Big Time Operator and Loaf.

* Super Fest XXXII, 4th, 5th and 6th avenues between Broadway and Harbor Drive, Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego. Friday, 6 p.m. to midnight; Saturday, 10 a.m.-midnight. Free. Some stages 21 and over only. (619) 221-6633.

8 pm: Theater

Comedy trio Culture Clash--Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza--star in Aristophanes’ “The Birds,” a comic romp about men who battle angry gods and meddling humans while trying to create their ideal republic in the realm of birds. Opens Friday at South Coast Repertory.

* “The Birds,” South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Ends Feb. 22. $18-$41. (714) 708-5555.

all day: Memorabilia

More than 40 pieces of memorabilia from pop icons from the ‘60s to the ‘80s will be on display at Christie’s this weekend. The pop Americana, which Christie’s will auction next month in New York, includes Timothy Leary’s mushroom recipe and hookah water pipe; Janis Joplin’s feather boa and bell bottoms; pages from John Lennon’s “Imagine”; Bob Marley’s expired American Express card and his acoustic guitar; Jimi Hendrix’s velvet jacket; and Sid Vicious’ notebook.

* Christie’s Pop Memorabilia Exhibition, 360 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. (310) 385-2600.

all day: Art

“Pablo Picasso: Works From the Estate and Selected Loans” is a mini survey of the artist’s work. Among paintings on view will be a portrait of the artist’s mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, from 1932; one of the largest works from his Mediterranean studio, painted in the 1950s; as well as works from 1969 and 1971, his last years.

* “Pablo Picasso: Works from the Estate and Selected Loans,” PaceWildenstein, 9540 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Ends March 7. Free. (310) 205-5522.

8 pm: Theater

Expect murder, mummies, mayhem, werewolves and fast costume changes in Charles Ludlam’s award-winning two-man horror comedy “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” starring Tony Abatemarco and John Fleck. Opens Friday at the Tiffany Theater.

* “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” Tiffany Theater, 8532 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Regular schedule: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. through March 22. $24-$27. (310) 289-2999.

8 pm: Music

Classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco’s recordings have embraced the entirety of his instrument’s history, from Boccherini to Villa-Lobos. Barrueco will take this universal approach a step further when he joins rock guitarist Steve Morse (Kansas, Deep Purple) in a concert guaranteed to transcend time and space.

* Manuel Barrueco and Steve Morse, Veterans Wadsworth Theatre, Wilshire Boulevard at San Diego Freeway, Los Angeles. $27-$30, UCLA students $11. (310) 825-2101.

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FREEBIE: Harold Lloyd photo exhibit, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, 10 a.m.(310) 247-3600.