BEST BETS SUNDAY 9/24

11am

Family

Award-winning singer-songwriter and children’s music educator Hap Palmer, the “Baby Songs” guru, serves up sing-along and play-along songs for preschoolers and families in the wrap-up event of Peter Alsop’s summer-long “Kids Koncerts” series.

* “Hap Palmer, Peter Alsop’s Kids Koncerts,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. 11 a.m. $7. (310) 455-3723.

11am

Family

Singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins is best known for his numerous pop hits. But he’s also a popular children’s recording artist. On Sunday, Loggins will perform songs from both sides of his career at “Party on the Pier,” a family friendly event at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier. This day of merriment will benefit the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. It will include rides, popcorn, candy, carnival booths with prizes, a live Barbie model, face painting, clowns, storytelling and a silent auction.

* “Party on the Pier,” Pacific Park, 380 Santa Monica Pier, Colorado and Ocean avenues, Santa Monica. Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $40; children, $20. (310) 206-0500.

7:30pm

Pop Music

As part of his solo concerts last year, Brian Wilson and his band played some instrumental bits of the Beach Boys’ visionary 1966 album “Pet Sounds.” Expanding on the idea, Wilson is now traveling on what’s called the “Pet Sounds” Symphonic Tour, putting his group in front of an orchestra to capture the depth and delicacy of the album’s orchestrations.

* Brian Wilson with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. 7:30 p.m. $5 to $85. (323) 850-2000.

7:30pm

Pop Music

In his concert at the Mayan Theatre last year, Moby proved as compelling onstage as he is in the recording studio. With his album “Play” firmly lodged in the electronica and mainstream consciousness, the dance-music missionary steps up to a larger venue.

* Moby, with Hybrid, Greek Theatre, 2700 Vermont Canyon Road, Griffith Park. 7:30 p.m. $31. (213) 480-3232.

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Art

Diverse works by 16 young artists explores the legacy of the Baroque on contemporary art in “Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art” opening Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. The exhibition will include painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation and multimedia works by artists from Mexico, Brazil, Chile and the United States, demonstrating a unique interweaving of cultures, races and voices that characterize the Americas today.

* “Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art.” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Daily, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; closed Wednesdays. $4; students and seniors, $2 children under 12 free. (858) 454-3541.

Art

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Ancient customs and craftsmanship represented in Pueblo pottery are detailed in “From Earth, Fire and Spirit: Historic Pueblo Pottery From the Southwest Museum” opening Sunday at the Southwest Museum. The venerable museum, founded in 1907 (and thus the oldest in Los Angeles), has always been highly regarded by specialists in the field of Native American art. Don’t miss this chance to see a selection of the museum’s world-renowned collection featuring more than 100 works by the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico.

* “From Earth, Fire and Spirit: Historic Pueblo Pottery From the Southwest Museum,” Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive, Mount Washington. Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $6; students and seniors, $4; children 6-17, $3. (323) 221-2164.

8:30pm

Comedy

Among local comedy clubs, The Ice House in Pasadena has been a mainstay. On Sunday, the club celebrates its 40th anniversary with a lineup that includes comedians Brian Regan, Steve McGrew, George Lopez and surprise guests. There will also be a silent auction and raffle. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Hillsides, a Pasadena-based nonprofit organization that provides safe havens for children and works to end child abuse.

* The Ice House 40th anniversary show, 24 North Mentor Ave., Pasadena. 8:30 p.m. (auction and raffle begin at 6). $25 and $35. (626) 577-1894.

FREEBIE: The prize-winning Russian-born violinist Vadim Tchijik plays on the Sundays at Two series at the Beverly Hills Public Library, 444 N. Rexford Drive, at 2 p.m. His program lists movements from Bach, Paganini and Ferrari for violin alone, plus Brahms’ D-minor Sonata, played with pianist Valeria Morgovskaya. (310) 288-2201.

The “4th Annual Marcia Berman Family Sing-Along, with Jacki Breger and Friends,” celebrates family music in the name of nationally respected educator-artist Marcia Berman. California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, 3 p.m. (213) 687-2159, (310) 828-6378.

The Art Directors Guild Film Society salutes award-winning art director Richard Sylbert (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “Dick Tracy”) with a screening of the 1970 antiwar tragicomedy “Catch-22.” Clips of Sylbert’s work will precede the film, and a Q&A; will follow. Directors Guild of America, 7950 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. 5 p.m. (818) 762-9995.