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How would you create a doll that recalls and honors your ancestors? Make your own juju doll Sunday afternoon at the Watts Towers Arts Center with artist Riua Akinshegun. Workshop supplies are provided, but bring a special piece of cloth or personal object that will add a healing memory to your cloth rope doll.

* Juju doll workshop, Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 E. 107th St. Free. (213) 847-4646.

1pm: TV Museum

Sure, Sunday’s Super Bowl will rank high among TV programming, but it’s the commercials everyone will be talking about on Monday. Since 1984, when Apple set a new standard with its ad introducing the Macintosh computer, the big game has become as much a competition among advertising companies as between football teams. The Museum of Television & Radio has assembled 50 of the best-known spots in “Super Bowl: Super Showcase for Commercials,” including McDonald’s “Showdown” spots with Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, Pierce Brosnan’s spy-styled Coca-Cola ads from his pre-007 days and Ridley Scott’s ad for Nissan’s “Turbo Z Dreamer,” which aired only once.

* “Super Bowl: Super Showcase for Commercials” screens at 1 p.m.; the video is also available at the front desk at the Museum of Television & Radio, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. (310) 786-1000. Open Wednesdays to Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Suggested donation: $6; $4 students and seniors; $3 children.

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2pm: Theater

Edward Asner heads the cast in a staged reading of “The Gathering,” a comedy drama by Arje Shaw about a Jewish American grandfather and his grandson who head to Germany to confront then-President Reagan when he visits the Nazi S.S. graves at Bitburg.

* “The Gathering,” Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Marcia Israel Chapel Auditorium, 11661 W. Olympic Blvd., West Los Angeles, 2 p.m. $15. (310) 828-1296.

7pm: Theater

Performance artist John Fleck, one of the NEA 4 whose National Endowment for the Arts grants were revoked because their work was deemed “obscene,” digs up more “Dirt” in his latest solo work. In this dark comedy, Fleck explores our collective fascination with scandal and controversy, looking at just what “obscenity” means.

* “Dirt,” LunaPark, 665 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood, Sundays, 7 p.m. Ends March 21. $12. (310) 652-0611.

2:30pm / Music

In connection with its latest exhibit, “The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic,” the Huntington Library will present a concert of music of Washington’s time by the Liberty Consort from Orange County.

* Liberty Consort performs at the Huntington Library and Gallery, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, at 2:30 p.m. (626) 405-2100. $8.50 for nonmembers; free to members.

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9pm: Comedy

The Nellie Olesons comedy troupe from New York City (named for the prissy “Little House on the Prairie” character) returns with more irreverent adult sketch comedy, making light of homophobia, phallic supermarket produce and X-rated exercise equipment.

* “The Nellie Olesons,” LunaPark, 665 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood, Sundays, 9 p.m. Ends March 7. $10. (310) 652-0611.

Freebies: Showing of children’s videos at the KLOS Story Theater in the Central Library, 650 W. 5th St., downtown Los Angeles at 2 p.m. (213) 228-7000.

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Yo-yo lessons at the comic book emporium Golden Apple, 7711 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. Every Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. (323) 658 6047.

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