10 a.m.: Museum

When photographer Camilo Jose Vergara came to Los Angeles in 1992, he intended to document the African American community in areas such as South-Central Los Angeles. Instead he discovered that large numbers of Latino immigrants had settled into neighborhoods that were once predominately African American. “El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles,” an exhibit ofVergara’s photographs at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, captures how Los Angeles Latinos build and decorate their homes, landscape their yards and transform their workplaces with lively art that adds new dimension to the city’s tradition of public art. Presented in both English and Spanish, the exhibition includes more than 100 color photographs. It will be on view through July 16.

* “El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles,” Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Through July 16. $8; seniors and students, $5.50; ages 5 to 12, $2; under age 5, free. (213) 763-DINO.

2 & 8 pm: Movies

The Alex Film Society is presenting “Dinner at Eight,” director George Cukor’s sparkling and witty film adaptation of the parlor room drama by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman. The social-climbing dinner hosts are played by Lionel Barrymore and Billie Burke, and the guests include Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lee Tracy and May Robson. With the 1936 cartoon “The Coo-Coo Nut Grove” and another short film.

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

all day: Movies

“Los Angeles/Hollywood on Film: Exporting the Idea of Southern California” is a four-part film series hosted by the USC School of Cinema-Television as part of the university’s larger exposition “Southern California in the World and the World in Southern California.” The Saturday series kicks off with “Classic Visions,” movies from the Hollywood film industry’s earliest years, including the Charlie Chaplin short “Kid’s Auto Races at Venice” (1914) and Billy Wilder’s classic film noir “Double Indemnity.”

“Los Angeles/Hollywood on Film: Exporting the Idea of Southern California,” Norris Theater, USC campus, Los Angeles. Saturday: At 4:30 p.m., “Kid’s Auto Races at Venice” (1914), “Number Please” (1920), “Lizzies of the Field” (1924), “Progress in Los Angeles” (1928) and “Big Business” (1929). At 6:30 p.m., “The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra” (1928) and “Show People” (1928). At 8:30 p.m., “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943) and “Double Indemnity” (1944). The series will continue on Feb. 5, 12 and 19; check Special Screenings listings in Sunday and Weekend Calendar each week for the full schedule. Admission is free. (213) 740-2804.

8 pm: Theater

Comic character actor Marvin Kaplan, familiar from countless TV shows and professional stage productions, heads the cast in “Thicker Than Water,” a new comedy by Roy Battocchio about an Italian American clan with a prospering construction business.

* “Thicker Than Water,” Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. W., Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Ends Feb. 20. $12. (888) 551-WEST.

8 pm: Dance

Formerly the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, the company now renamed Ailey II features young people from the school of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. “It can be called that troupe’s second company,” wrote the New York Times, “but Sylvia Waters, its director, has made it a first-rate group in its own right.” The local repertory includes Ailey’s own “Quintet” (1968) and “Escapades” (1983), “Sensory Feast” by Francesca Harper and “Nightscape” by Carmen de Lavallade, an artist who shared with Ailey and many other distinguished alumni an apprenticeship right here in the Southland with modern dance pioneer Lester Horton.

* Ailey II, Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu. 8 p.m. $30. (310) 456-4522.

11 am: Photography

Stark photographs, painted portrait banners, audio and video works and personal possessions present a firsthand look at an Irish tragedy in “Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday, 1972,” opening at UC Riverside’s California Museum of Photography. Serving as both documentary and response to the incident in which 13 Irish civil rights protesters were shot and killed, the exhibition opens Saturday with the panel discussion “Truths and New Hopes: Unmasking Bloody Sunday.” On hand to place the event in a historical perspective will be law professor Sam Dash, photographer William Rukeyser, author Peter Pringle, eyewitness Peter O’Neill, state Sen. Tom Hayden, Sinn Fein representative Rita O’Hare and exhibition curator Trisha Ziff.

* “Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday, 1972.” California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, 3824 Main St. Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ends March 5. A panel discussion, “Truths and New Hopes: Unmasking Bloody Sunday,” will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Admission free. (909) 784-FOTO.

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FREEBIES

“The Fashion Show,” a group show of wearable works by Dana Duff, Stephen Prina, Alexis Smith and others, kicks off with a fashion show at 6 and 8 p.m. at George’s, 1766 N. Vermont Ave., Los Feliz. (323) 666-8826. Regular gallery hours, noon-7 p.m. daily. Ends Feb. 26.

Two film and video programs will screen as part of “Documental: The Documentary and Experimental Film & Video Series,” Midnight Special Bookstore, 1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica. 7 and 9 p.m. (310) 393-2923.