Today’s Best Bets

Movies

Nice timing: Meryl Streep picks up her 11th Academy Award nomination this week, just as a retrospective of her work is going on. Tonight, it’s “Silkwood” (1983), the harrowing true story of a woman’s battles against hazardous conditions at a nuclear plant, and “The River Wild” (1994), the actress’ rip-roaring performance as a former guide forced to protect her family from floating miscreants.

“Magnificent Meryl: The Mystique of Meryl Streep,” LACMA, Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., (323) 857-6010. 7:30 p.m.

Theater

The Bilingual Foundation of the Arts is mounting “Guantanamera,” a dark comedy from Cuba about a family’s attempt to take a deceased aunt home for burial, complicated by a new state plan for the transfer of bodies.

421 N. Avenue 19, Lincoln Heights, (323) 225-4044. Alternates weekly in Spanish and English through March 28. (Call for schedule.)

Jazz

One of the most popular tenor saxophonists in town, Rickey Woodard, and his quartet swing through standards, blues and ballads.

Club Brasserie, Bel Age Hotel, 1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 854-1111. 9 p.m. Also Saturday.

Music

Think rap-godfather and jazz-influenced composer Gil Scott-Heron has something to say about the Bill-Monica-impeachment show? May we suggest “The Revulsion Has Been Televised”?

Marla’s Jazz Supper Club, 2323 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (323) 294-8430. Through Sunday.