BEST BETS Saturday 11/25

12:30, 1:30 & 2:30pm

Music

Thanksgiving weekend is an appropriate time to get into early American history, and why not start with sounds of the West? Tom Sauber performs old-time western music Saturday at the Autry. Sauber, who’s been playing traditional music for more than 30 years, is a master on practically any instrument with strings--banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin. He has also recorded with Ry Cooder, Weird Al and others.

* Tom Sauber, Heritage Court, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park, L.A. 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Included in museum admission, $3 to $7.50. (323) 667-2000.

2&8pm

Movies

Once the turkey has clucked, it’s time for nyuk-nyuk-nyuk. A Glendale holiday tradition presented by the Alex Film Society, The Three Stooges Big Screen Event features the stalwarts of slapstick in a program of classic shorts, plus “Nertsery Rhymes,” a rarely seen 1933 color short from MGM. Other titles include “Pop Goes the Easel” (1935), “Half-Wits Holiday” (1947), “Square Heads of the Roundtable” (1948), “Who Done It?” (1941) and the animated “Hollywood Steps Out” (1941) featuring caricatures of the Stooges and other Hollywood figures.

* The Three Stooges Big Screen Event, Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. 2 and 8 p.m. $6 to $12. (818) 754-8250 or (800) 233-3123 or https://www.keyconnect.com/alexfilmsoc.

7:30pm

Movies

The California Noir series concludes at LACMA with a pair of films fraught with betrayal and seduction. First up is “The Lady From Shanghai” (1948), an entertaining twist-filled thriller written, directed and starring Orson Welles, along with his then wife, Rita Hayworth. It climaxes famously with a shootout in a hall of mirrors. The double feature closes with “Chinatown” (1974), starring Jack Nicholson as a cop turned private eye probing some dirty water dealings in 1930s Los Angeles. Roman Polanski directed from Robert Towne’s memorable script. Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd, John Hillerman and Burt Young co-star.

* California Noir, LACMA, Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. “The Lady From Shanghai” and “Chinatown.” 7:30 p.m. $5 to $7. (323) 857-6010.

7:30pm

Pop Music

Few of his brethren from the original ‘60s New York folk scene have sustained the consistent and restless career claimed by Eric Andersen. The troubadour’s vintage and freshest work is currently circulating, with his earliest material included on the new “Best of Broadside” boxed set and his latest on his own “You Can’t Relive the Past,” whose title song was written and sung in collaboration with Lou Reed.

* Eric Andersen, the Mint, 6010 W. Pico Blvd. 7:30 p.m. $15. (323) 954-9630.

8&10 pm

Pop Music

Dave Alvin has become one of L.A.’s all-time most valuable musicians largely on the strength of his songwriting, but when he and his four-piece band hit McCabe’s, expect a good dose of the traditional folk and blues tunes that fill his latest album, “Public Domain.”

* Dave Alvin, McCabe’s, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. 8 and 10 p.m. $15. (310) 828-4403.

all day

Crafts

Forget that Thanksgiving isn’t over yet. It’s the holiday season. “Folk Art to Funk” hints to that as the annual exhibition and sale of antiques and crafts sets up shop at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium this weekend. Dealers from across the country will display paintings, lace and linens, folk art, quilts, jewelry, vintage clothing and other items perfect for--you guessed it--holiday gift-giving.

“Folk Art to Funk.” Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St., Santa Monica. Saturday, noon-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $5; children 16 and under, free. (310) 455-2886.

Freebie

L.A.’s new indoor bazaar featuring food and crafts from mostly immigrant vendors doesn’t officially open until January, but doors are open Saturday and Sunday for a sneak peak at Mercado La Paloma, 3655 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., (213) 949-1338.