Museums

The role of Indian cradles in reinforcing ethnic identity and women’s artistic expression is explored in “Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles,” opening today at UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History. The traveling show will feature 38 historical lattice cradles from the Kiowa, right, and the Comanche, and two new cradles created especially for the exhibition.

Pop Music

The summer concert season bows out with a bang (as in headbang) and the blues. Saturday’s OZZfest at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion in Devore serves up hard rock from, among others, Godsmack, Incubus and, of course, Ozzy himself. The three-day Long Beach Blues Festival kicks off the same day at Cal State Long Beach with Bo Diddley, George Thorogood and more.

Dance

If you want feathered tutus, high-flying fireworks and star-cross’d lovers, the Hollywood Bowl is the place this weekend when John Mauceri conducts a Tchaikovsky program featuring San Francisco Ballet in Act 2 of “Swan Lake.” Also on the bill Friday through next Sunday: the “Romeo and Juliet” Overture-Fantasy and the “1812” Overture, embellished with fireworks and the USC Marching Band.

Music

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of his debut at age 8, pianist Daniel Barenboim plays three U.S. recitals this year; the second takes place Saturday night in Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego. These days more renowned as a conductor--with posts in Chicago and Berlin--Barenboim will play a program of Liszt masterpieces and two of the books of Isaac Albeniz’s “Iberia” suite.

Jazz

The sixth annual West Coast Jazz Party, at the Irvine Marriott Hotel starting Friday, emphasizes straight-ahead mainstream jazz. This year’s headliners include the Ray Brown Trio, Marlena Shaw, Monty Alexander, the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Russell Malone and Ken Peplowski, among many others.

Video

After tackling the Vietnam War, and government conspiracies, Oliver Stone takes on football in “Any Given Sunday.” Al Pacino, above right, plays a coach in this long and often predictable film that also stars Dennis Quaid, above left, and Jamie Foxx. Arrives Friday on video and DVD--just in time for football season.

Theater

International City Theatre reopens the renovated Center Theater in Long Beach with Joe Orton’s outrageous, dark-hearted comedy “Loot,” about an unscrupulous British cop hot on the trail of bank robbers, one of whom has stashed the loot in the coffin of his surprisingly mobile dead mother. There’s a murderous nurse in the mix too. Opens Friday.