All day: Family

Mammothfest at the Page Museum celebrates all things having to do with the woolly mammoth. This two-day event will include mammoth-oriented storytelling and arts-and-crafts activities for kids. Films about mammoth expeditions will be screened; educational information about these extinct ancestors of the modern elephant will be available.

* Mammothfest, Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $6; students and seniors, $3.50; children 5-12, $2; under 5, free. (323) 934-PAGE.

8:15 pm: Comedy

Jeff Foxworthy, the hardest-working “redneck” comedian in show business, headlines the “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” at the Universal Amphitheatre tonight, on a lineup that features three other comics with a similar bent, including Bill Engvall. Since leaving network television after the cancellation of his eponymous NBC sitcom, Foxworthy has moved back to Atlanta and tapped his Southern stand-up roots. His new CD, “Big Funny,” hits stores April 25.

* Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall, “Blue Collar Comedy Tour,” Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City. 8:15 p.m. $29.50 and $42.50. (818) 622-4440.

all day: Photography

Photographs by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie pay tribute to a diverse group of Native American women who have brought about social and political change in “Native Women of Hope,” opening Saturday at the Southwest Museum of Art. Traveling around the country for 18 months, Tsinhnahjinnie, who is of Seminole-Muscogee-Dine descent, captured women from different tribes, educational backgrounds and professions such as Navajo surgeon Lori Arviso-Alvord, Creek poet and musician Joy Harjo, Anishinaabe environmental activist Winona LaDuke and many others.

“Native Women of Hope,” Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive, Mount Washington. Ends April 30. Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults, $6; students and seniors, $4; children 6-17, $3; children under 6, free. (323) 221-2164.

2 pm: Theater

Ed Asner, Piper Laurie and Watergate veteran John Dean are among the cast performing a staged reading of Donald Freed’s new epic, “American Iliad,” about Richard Nixon at age 90 and John F. Kennedy at age 80, wandering the world of Nixon’s memories.

* “American Iliad,” Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, 2 p.m. $10. (323) 866-0666.

All day: Festival

Celtic pride will be in full bloom at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival celebration in Hermosa Beach this weekend. The Saturday parade will consist of 125 entries, including bagpipe and marching bands, floats and clowns. The all-day festival on Saturday and Sunday will feature arts-and-crafts booths, Irish music and dance performances and other Irish and non-Irish attractions. Sunday’s festival also will include 7 a.m. surf contests at the Hermosa Beach Pier.

* St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival, downtown Hermosa Beach. Parade: from City Hall Complex at Pier Avenue and Valley Drive, continuing west on Pier Avenue to 8th Street, Saturday, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Festival: along Hermosa Avenue between 10th and 14th streets, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission. (310) 374-1365.

7 pm: Pop Music

The dawn is approaching for the band that made “rock and roll all nite” its words to live by. That’s right--the mighty KISS is on its farewell tour after nearly three decades of fire-breathing, blood-spouting, head-banging rock extravaganzas.

* KISS, with Ted Nugent and Skid Row, at the Arrowhead Pond, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, 7 p.m. $45 and $85. (714) 704-2500.

8 pm: Dance

The audience for the latest site-specific extravaganza by Heidi Duckler’s award-winning Collage Dance Theatre had better wear comfortable shoes. This time out, in a piece titled “Sub Versions,” Collage takes everyone from the marble lobby of the former Subway Terminal building in downtown L.A. through many, many underground locations inside not seen by the public for many years. En route, performances of music, dance and poetry will emphasize the theme of inner and outer worlds--and the ravages of time.

* “Sub Versions,” Collage Dance Theatre, former Subway Terminal Building, 417 S. Hill St., downtown Los Angeles, 8 p.m. Also March 23 and 30 at 8 p.m.; March 24, 25, April 1, 2, 7 and 8 at 7 and 9 p.m. $15 (818) 784-8669.

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FREEBIES: “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Photographs by Walker Evans,” a series of black-and-white photographs of Alabama sharecroppers that were included in James Agee’s 1941 novel “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” opens Saturday at the Orange County Museum of Art/South Coast Plaza, 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Ends May 7. (949) 759-1122.

Women in Railroading 2000 is the Travel Town Railroad Museum’s annual event with music, train rides and the presentation of a play from the International Society for the Preservation of Women in Railroading (performance times are noon and 3 p.m.), 5200 Zoo Drive, Griffith Park, Los Angeles. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (323) 662-5874.

Artist Robert Stone’s proposed new objects, including a strap-on subwoofer, low lawn chair, altered parking block and lowrider Volvo, will go on display Friday in a new exhibition opening at Postwilshire, 6130 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Ends April 15. A reception will be held Friday, 7-9 p.m. (323) 932-1822.