BEST BETS Friday 10/6

ANAHEIM

7:30pm

Pop Music

Orange County’s Sense Field has been in a holding pattern, at least regarding a follow-up to its 1996 album “Building,” which was picked up by a major label (Warner Bros.) after being released by an O.C.-based indie label (Revelation). The band recorded another last year that Warners opted not to release, and recently the company gave the band permission to rerecord the material and shop it for another label. Meanwhile, Sense Field has three songs on a new five-song “split” EP, released Tuesday, that it shares with another O.C. group, Onelinedrawing.

* Sense Field, Chain Reaction, 1652 W. Lincoln Ave., Anaheim. 7:30 p.m. $10. (714) 635-6067.

ORANGE

6pm

Film

In 1985, Argentine director Luis Puenzo’s “La Historia Oficial” (The Official Story) won an Oscar and considerable praise for its story of a woman who suspects that her adopted daughter might be the child of a political prisoner. This year it opens the Latin American Film Festival at Santiago Canyon College, followed by 1994’s “Burning Season,” the John Frankenheimer biography of Amazon rain forest defender Chico Mendes.

* “La Historia Oficial” (The Official Story) (1985) and “Burning Season” (1994), Santiago Canyon College, room D-101, 8045 E. Chapman Ave., Orange. 6 p.m. Free. (714) 480-7500.

FULLERTON

8pm

Dance

Direct from Mexico City, the 35-member Ballet Gran Folklorico de Mexico will present a pageant of Mexico’s cultural heritage, from the pre-Columbian era through the 19th century. The concert is part of the Professional Artists in Residence Celebrity Series sponsored by Cal State Fullerton but held off campus at Plummer Auditorium.

* Ballet Gran Folklorico de Mexico, Plummer Auditorium, 201 E. Chapman Ave., Fullerton. 8 p.m. $20 to $25. (714) 278-3371.