7 pm: Pop Music

“Well I’m packin’ up my game and I’m a head out west. . . . “ So says Kid Rock in his hit song “Cowboy,” and true to his word, the feisty Detroit rapper-cum-rocker is hitting the coast with the aggressive sounds, in-your-face attitude and eager-to-please showmanship that have made him one of the year’s inescapable arrivals. In the same song, the Kid even pinpoints the neighborhood of his two shows: “Spend all my time at Hollywood and Vine.”

* Kid Rock, with Powerman 5000, Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, 7 p.m. Saturday (sold out), and Sunday. $27. (323) 962-7600.

2 pm: Family

New puppets and new stories, plus highlights from last year’s show are combined in “The Tom McCleister Christmastime Theatrical Extravaganza for 1999,” as Andy McCandy and his wooden pal Mr. Laffey team up for a Christmas pageant and help Santa’s elf find a missing doll in this offbeat family puppet musical. Features the Me-And-My-Shadows Puppet Troupe.

* “The Tom McCleister Christmastime Theatrical Extravaganza for 1999,” Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m. Also Dec. 15-18, 8 p.m. Ends Dec. 18. $10 to $12. (310) 477-2055.

1 & 7:30 pm: Movies

For two days only, the management of the recently reopened Silent Movie Theatre will let the audience decide which Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckling adventure they want to watch: “The Three Musketeers” (1921) or “Robin Hood” (1923). Voting will take place once the audience is seated, and on the qt, we hear that Silent Movie patrons are already favoring “The Three Musketeers.”

* Audience Choice Night, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles. Saturday, 1 and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. $5 to $7. For moviegoers, 75 and older, admission is 5 cents. (323) 655-2520.

all day: Museum

If you’ve been keeping up with PBS’ “The Antiques Road Show,” you know the name Louis Comfort Tiffany. It’s his name that makes a decorative arts item--a lamp or vase or piece of jewelry--worth a small fortune. “The Spirit of Tiffany,” at the Reagan Library, displays the work of the junior Tiffany (his father Charles Lewis Tiffany was the jeweler who founded the company) from the late 19th and early 20th century.

* “The Spirit of Tiffany,” the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley. Open daily except holidays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $5; $3, seniors. Age 15 and younger, free. (805) 522-2977.

8 pm: Music

In the second of three performances this weekend, Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program encompassing Turina’s “The Toreador’s Prayer,” the “Concierto Breve” by Xavier Montsalvatge, with piano soloist Alicia de Larrocha, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.”

* The L.A. Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles, 8 p.m. $10 to $70. (213) 365-3500. Also, Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

2 & 8 pm: Movies

N’yuck, n’yuck, n’yuck . . . the Alex Film Society is presenting a Three Stooges Big Screen Event, which will include the short films “Plane Nuts” (1933), “Women Haters” (1934), the Academy Award-nominated “Men in Black” (1934), “Violent Is the Word for Curly” (1938) and “Brideless Groom” (1947) (which features Shemp), and the cartoon “Musical Musketeers.”

* Three Stooges Big Screen Event, Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, 2 and 8 p.m. $6 to $12. (800) 233-3123.

FREEBIE

Examine the earthquake faults that created the Santa Monica Mountains during the two-hour Franklin’s Faults nature hike. Starts at 11 a.m. from William O. Douglas Outdoor Classroom, on Franklin Canyon Drive, a half-mile west of Coldwater Canyon Park. Rain cancels. (805) 370-2301.

The Hollywood Christmas Parade runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Parade information: (323) 469-2337. Story on Page XX.