BEST BETS / Saturday 10/23

Art

Once again the Brewery Arts Colony in downtown L.A. opens its doors for the biannual “Brewery Artwalk.” Nestled between Interstate 5 and North Main Street, the former Pabst Brewery boasts of being the world’s largest art complex, with more than 350 artists and businesses housed there. Travel the studios and lofts this weekend as more than 100 artists open their doors for studio tours and art exhibitions with refreshments and unique gifts available.

* “Brewery Artwalk,” the Brewery Arts Colony, 5 Freeway and North Main Street, downtown Los Angeles. Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free; gated parking is available. (213) 694-2911.

10:30am & 1:30pm

Theater

Richard Crenna and Janet Waldo go way back: They were co-stars during radio’s golden age in “A Date With Judy” in the mid-’40s. The pair return to their pre-TV and film roots in California Artists Radio Theatre’s production of “The World and His Wife,” Oliver Hailey’s comedy, a kaleidoscopic history of mankind, from caveman days to the new millennium.

* “The World and His Wife,” Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd, 10:30 a.m. (dress rehearsal) and 1:30 p.m. $10 (10:30 a.m. show) to $15. (213) 683-3422.

2 & 8 pm

Movies

In 1959, upon the release of his latest chiller, “The Tingler,” horror-meister William Castle introduced a gimmick he called “Percepto,” which involved wiring the seats in the movie houses to give audiences a multisensory “tingle” experience. Now the Alex Film Society, which is presenting “The Tingler” as its pre-Halloween weekend show, is reviving the trick. And just in case that sounds a little intense, moviegoers can take a test run of the “tingle” seats in the theater’s lobby or request a non-rigged seat. Darryl Hickman, who co-starred in the film with Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn, will attend the 8 p.m. screening.

* “The Tingler,” Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Ave., Glendale. 2 and 8 p.m. $6 to $8.50. Information, (818) 754-8250; tickets, (800) 233-3123.

5 & 8pm

Theater

Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, who became household names--and cracked each other up at every opportunity--on “The Carol Burnett Show,” reunite in “Together Again,” an evening of comedy re-creating sketches including “The Dentist,” “The Old Man” and “Dorf.”

* “Together Again,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos, 5 and 8 p.m. $47 to $57. (800) 300-4345; (562) 916-8500.

7pm

Jazz

Saxophonist Kirk Whalum, whose last Warner Bros. album, “For You,” contains a hot instrumental version of Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes,” now lives in Nashville but returns to his former home each year to raise money for the Pasadena chapter of the Boys & Girls Club. This 10th annual Kirk Whalum All-Star Benefit Concert, dubbed “The Gospel According to Jazz,” also includes keyboardist George Duke, Pastor Andrae Crouch & the New Christ Memorial Choir, guitarist Doc Powell with Ali Woodson, keyboardist Philippe Saisse and bassist Paul Jackson Jr.

* “The Gospel According to Jazz,” Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena, 7 p.m. $20 to $42. (626) 798-3925.

8pm

Pop Music

Wilshire and Western is a little far from both his Hawthorne origins and the Pacific surf that fueled his breakthrough music, but that intersection’s Wiltern Theatre is the site of Beach Boys auteur Brian Wilson’s first-ever hometown solo concert.

* Brian Wilson, Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, 8 p.m. $37.50 to $102.50. (213) 380-5005. Also Sunday at the Sun Theatre, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, 8 p.m. $58.50 to $85. (714) 712-2700.

FREEBIES:

“A Journey to India” is a celebration at the Pacific Asia Museum featuring Indian songs, music, storytelling, food and children’s workshops, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, 1-4 p.m. (626) 449-2742.

Lomita Railroad Museum’s Golden Spike Day includes music, train exhibits and an antique car show, 2137 W. 250th St., Lomita, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (310) 366-7993.