BEST BETS Friday 12/22

ANAHEIM

7:30pm

Pop Music

The Vandals play their only “Oi to the World” holiday show of 2000 at the Sun Theatre in Anaheim. “Oi” is the veteran O.C.-Long Beach punk band’s 1996 Christmas album with the characteristically humorous-satiric twist that permeates such songs as “A Gun for Christmas,” “Grandpa’s Last X-mas” and the title track. In previous years, the group has played a few selections from the “Oi” album amid Vandals standards, but this year they’re planning to do the album beginning to end.

* The Vandals, Sun Theatre, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim. With the Ataris, the Aquabats and Assorted Jellybeans. 7:30 p.m. $15. (714) 712-2700.

LAGUNA BEACH

11am

Art

The holidays are filled with good cheer and angels at the Elena Zass Gallery. The featured show, “Translating Angels,” is a group exhibit inspired by the Los Angeles Community of Angels project. Mythological cherubs have long been a theme for artists. These artists offer a range of styles in a variety of media to decorate hundreds of 6-foot fiberglass replicas of Tony Sheet’s sculptures of three angels recently unveiled in L.A.

* “Translating Angels,” Elena Zass Gallery, 330 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach. Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Jan. 15. (949) 494-1969.

ANAHEIM HILLS

8pm

Theater

The gay apparel comes out of the closet--and a closet figures prominently in the action--in “Where Men Are Empty Overcoats,” a comedy about a college student who waits until the holidays to reveal his homosexuality to his straight-arrow parents. Eric Pfeffinger’s play arose from a comic strip he drew for the Indiana University student newspaper.

For its final weekend in action during its first full year of operation, the Chance Theater offers a doubleheader, with “The Non-Christmas December Show,” a program of three one-acts, running Saturday and Sunday afternoons before or after “Empty Overcoats.” In one of them, “Mona in the Morning,” Pfeffinger strikes again with a story about a talk-show host who interviews fictional characters, among them Hedda Gabler.

“Eggtoss,” by New York playwright PS Lorio, and “South of Pelican Rapids,” by Orange County writer Greg Elsasser, are the other plays in the troika.

* “Where Men Are Empty Overcoats,” Chance Theater, 5576 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim Hills. 8 p.m. Also Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. $13 to $15. “The Non-Christmas December Show,” Saturday and Sunday, 5 p.m. $10 to $12. (714) 777-3033 or www.chancetheater.com.