BEST BETS SUNDAY 10/22

2pm

Theater/Family

Theatrework USA presents Story Salads’ “Amelia Bedelia and the Baby & Other Stories,” a musical revue featuring children’s book favorites, “Amelia Bedelia,” “Are You My Mother?,” “Chicken Soup With Rice” and more.

* “Amelia Bedelia and the Baby & Other Stories,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach. Sunday, 2 p.m. $12-$15. (562) 986-7000. Also at La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, Oct. 29, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., $8, (562) 944-9801; and James Armstrong Theater, Torrance Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, Nov. 4, 10 a.m., $7.50, (310) 781-7171.

All Day

Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents its largest exhibition ever: “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000.” This revisionist view of California’s cultural legacy takes over galleries in three buildings on Wilshire Boulevard. A survey of 20th century art and pop culture, the exhibition features more than 800 works of art in a wide range of media as well as cultural documents such as tourist brochures, rock posters and labor pamphlets.

* “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Ends Feb 25. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, noon to 8 p.m.; Fridays, noon to 9 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Adults, $7; seniors and students, $5; children, $1. (323) 857-6000.

2pm

Pop Music

Singer-songwriter Poe isn’t the only artist in the family--her brother Mark Danielewski has been in the limelight lately for his experimental horror novel “House of Leaves.” Now Poe is about to release “Haunted,” her first album in five years and a companion piece to his book. The siblings will mark the occasion with a joint appearance, she singing and he reading.

* Poe, Borders Books & Music, 1360 Westwood Blvd., Westwood. 2 p.m. Free. (310) 475-3444.

7pm

Music

Prize-winning Jon Nakamatsu, gold-medal winner of the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, returns this week to play with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. Their program includes Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, Opus 16, Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds and music by Mozart, Reicha and Jolivet.

* Jon Nakamatsu and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, Ostin Hall, UCLA. 7 p.m. $40. (310) 825-2101.

7pm

Music

The Pacific Chorale season opens with a performance by the John Alexander Singers and Musica Angelica, conducted by John Alexander, of works by Bach and Handel in Segerstrom Hall. The ensembles will perform Bach’s “Magnificat” and Missa Brevis in G minor, and Handel’s “Laudate pueri.”

* The John Alexander Singers with the Musica Angelica ensemble appear in Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 7 p.m. $15 to $49. (714) 662-2345.

all day

Movies

Marlon Brando gives two towering performances in Elia Kazan-directed dramas paired at the New Beverly Cinema. In 1954’s “On the Waterfront,” Brando and a fine cast including Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger and Eva Marie Saint act out Budd Schulberg’s account of the tough life around New York City’s harbor unions. “A Streetcar Named Desire,” from 1951, features Brando as Tennessee Williams’ Stanley Kowalski opposite Vivien Leigh’s Blanche DuBois and Kim Hunter as Stella.

* Marlon Brando Double Feature, New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd. L.A. Sunday, “On the Waterfront,” 3 and 7:30 p.m.; “A Streetcar Named Desire,” 5:05 and 9:35 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, “On the Waterfront,” 7:30 p.m., “A Streetcar Named Desire,” 9:35 p.m. $3 to $6. (323) 938-4038.

Freebies

Participants will learn how to make puppets using papel picado (paper cutting) techniques at the Day of the Dead Paper Puppet Workshop, Arroyo Seco Library, 6145 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. 2 to 4 p.m. (213) 847-1182.

Alexander Treger and his American Youth Symphony begin their 36th season. Soloist is the 12-year-old violinist Ryu Goto (young brother of Midori), who will play the Dvorak Concerto. Royce Hall, UCLA. 8 p.m. (310) 234-8355.