BEST BETS / Saturday 1/27

10am

Movies

Disney’s Wahoo Wagon pulls into town and parks on the El Capitan’s stage beginning this weekend. A live show for kids featuring music, dance, storytelling and audience participation, the Wagon promises a “wild and wacky ride through your imagination.” The show will be followed by the 1977 Disney animated film “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” a collection of shorts with A.A. Milne’s honey-loving bear and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.

* Disney’s Wahoo Wagon, plus “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” Jan. 27-Feb. 24; “Peter Pan,” March 3-31; “Alice in Wonderland,” April 7-28. El Capitan, 6838 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Saturdays, 10 a.m. $5 to $9. (323) 467-7674.

11am & 1pm

Family

The balls and clubs, as well as the jokes, will be flying when the juggling-comedy duo of Barrett Felker and Allan Jacobs teams up for two shows at the Smothers Theatre on the campus of Pepperdine University. The Gizmo Guys, who have been performing since 1987, are known for their family-oriented shows. The two will also perform at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium in Pasadena on Feb. 3 and at the Norris Center for the Performing Arts in Rolling Hills Estates on Feb. 4.

* Gizmo Guys, Pepperdine Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. $15. (310) 506-4522. Also

Friday at 7:30 p.m., Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St. E., Palmdale. $8-$12. (661) 267-5685. $8-$12. Feb. 3, 2 p.m. at Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena. $10; children, $5. (626) 395-4652 or (888) 222-5832. Feb. 4 at 1 and 4 p.m. at Norris Center for the Performing Arts, 27570 Crossfield Drive, Rolling Hills Estates. $14. (310) 544-0403.

7:30pm

Movies

Academy Award-winning cinematographer Conrad Hall (“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “American Beauty”) will talk with filmmaker Robert Towne following a screening of “The Day of the Locust,” the 1975 film based on Nathanael West’s Hollywood novel for which Hall received an Oscar nomination. “Locust,” part of the “California Cultures: The Promised Land” film series, stars Donald Sutherland, Karen Black and William Atherton and was adapted by Waldo Salt and directed by John Schlesinger. The story shows the dark side of Tinseltown in the ‘30s, its promise of fame and grimness of failure. Hall shot Towne’s films “Tequila Sunrise” and “Without Limits,” as well as “Morituri,” “The Professionals,” “In Cold Blood,” “Searching for Bobby Fischer” and “A Civil Action.”

* “California Cultures: The Promised Land 2,” LACMA, Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. “The Day of the Locust,” Saturday, 7:30 p.m. $5 to $7. Tickets, (877) 522-6225; information, (323) 857-6010).

8pm

Theater

“Judging Amy’s” Dan Futterman directs the West Coast premiere of “Private Life,” Craig Archibald’s portrayal of Noel Coward coping with bad reviews from the night before, during one morning in 1937 at the Plaza Hotel.

* “Private Life,” Hudson Guild Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. Ends Feb. 18. $20. (310) 289-2999.

8pm

World Music

Violin virtuosity and cimbalom expertise are just two of the attractions as some of the leading exponents of Hungarian and Transylvanian folk traditions join forces. Come hungry--a Hungarian dinner precedes the concert.

* Okros Folk Music Ensemble, Kalman Balogh, Aladar Csiszar, Agnes Herczku, at Magyarhaz, 1975 W. Washington Blvd., L.A., 8 p.m. $18. (310) 441-4792.

9pm

Pop Music

Steve Albini is an alt-rock demigod, as the leader of the legendary Big Black in the ‘80s and then as producer of albums by Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and other major names, as well as legions of little-known but devoted independent rock bands. The Chicago-based musician also fronts his own group, Shellac, which formed nearly a decade ago and has released three albums but is only now making its Los Angeles debut.

* Shellac, Saturday and Sunday at the Knitting Factory Hollywood, 7021 Hollywood Blvd., L.A., 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Sold out. (323) 463-0204.

10pm

Pop Music

Two of New York’s house music masters, Little Louie Vega and Erick Morillo, recently collaborated on a double album called “House Nation America,” and the star DJs are now taking it on the road.

* Little Louie Vega and Erick Morillo, at Giant, 6655 Santa Monica Blvd., L.A., 10 p.m. $10 before 10 p.m., $20 after 10 p.m. (323) 464-7373.

Freebies:

* Two separate programs of “Documental,” the documentary and experimental film and video series, will screen. The later show includes “Breaking the Bank,” a feature-length documentary account of the April 2000 protests in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Midnight Special Bookstore, 1318 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7 and 9 p.m. (310) 393-2923.

* A series of 17 new works on paper by Lari Pittman, each titled “Optimal settings for atmospheric conditions that can induce -------------- in the male,” opens at Regen Projects, 629 N. Almont Drive, L.A., with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Ends Feb. 24. (310) 276-5424.