all day: Art

More than 70 galleries and private dealers from Belgium to Bolivia will show and sell their unusual wares in Southern California’s 14th annual Tribal, Folk & Textile Art Show, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Collectors will have their pick of pottery, costumes, jewelry, rugs, masks, carvings, beadwork, basketry and furniture from the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia.

* Tribal, Folk & Textile Art Show, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St., Santa Monica. Friday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $10. (310) 455-2886.

all day: Movies

Gene Hackman heads the ensemble cast of “Heist,” David Mamet’s latest cat-and-mouse crime drama. Typical of Mamet, the trick is figuring out who’s the cat and who’s the mouse. Hackman plays a veteran thief who slips up and gets caught on a surveillance camera during a jewelry holdup, forcing him and his crew into another caper. Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sam Rockwell and Ricky Jay co-star.

* “Heist,” rated R for language and some violence, opens Friday in general release.

8 pm: Opera

“Powder Her Face,” Thomas Ades’ 1995 chamber opera dealing with the glamorous, scandalous life of the Duchess of Argyll, is the fall presentation by Long Beach Opera and will be performed in a reconfigured, 250-seat black box theater, the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at Cal State Long Beach, for four performances through Nov. 18. Neal Stulberg conducts; the stage director is David Schweizer.

* “Powder Her Face,” Long Beach Opera, Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach., 8 p.m. $45 to $70. Also Sunday, 4 p.m.; Wednesday, 8 p.m.; and Nov. 18, 2 p.m. (562) 439-2580.

10 pm: Movies

Talk about your long night’s journey into day. O’Neill had nothing on the presenters of Shock-o-Rama-a-Go-Go, a 24-hour-plus marathon of B-movies, augmented by B-movie bands and an overall aura of decadence. More than 30 horror, rock ‘n’ roll, Eurotrash and art-house titles including “Hellraiser,” “Nightbreed,” “Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies,” “I Drink Your Blood” and “Reefer Madness” will screen in the historic Palace Theatre’s main room, as well as in the downstairs Lust Lounge. Guests are encouraged to bring pillows and sleeping bags and get comfy.

* Shock-o-Rama-a-Go-Go Film Festival, Palace Theatre, 630 S. Broadway St., downtown L.A. Friday, 10 p.m., to Sunday, 2:30 a.m. $10. (323) 345-2332.

10:30 am: Family

Chicago-based children’s recording artist Ralph Covert performs a “Ralph’s World” concert of comic, sing-along songs for all ages, with such kid-tickling selections as “Seven Monkeys Up a Tree” and “Tickle a Tiger.” * “Ralph’s World,” Borders Sherman Oaks, Friday, 10:30 a.m. Free. (818) 728-6593. Also Saturday, noon, Storyopolis, 116 N. Robertson, Plaza A, L.A.; adults, free; children, $6. (310) 358-2500. Saturday, 4:30 p.m., Hollywood Hills Restaurant, 1745 N. Vermont Ave., L.A. (benefits nonprofit Los Feliz Nursery School), $10. Sunday, 1 p.m., Zimmer Discover Children’s Museum, 6505 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.; members, $5; nonmembers, $8. (323) 761-8991. Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., Borders Books & Music, 9301 Tampa Ave., Northridge, free, (818) 886-5443.

8 pm: Pop Music

In its first concert production, KCRW-FM (89.9) celebrates its signature musical eclecticism, with “Morning Becomes Eclectic” host Nic Harcourt roping in a lineup of notable acts that received early exposure on his frequency: Shelby Lynne, Ozomatli, Elliott Smith, Pete Yorn, Sparklehorse and Badly Drawn Boy. The show benefits the public radio station.

* Shelby Lynne, Ozomatli, Elliott Smith, Pete Yorn, Sparklehorse, Badly Drawn Boy, Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 8 p.m. $50 to $150. $100 and $150 tickets include post-show party. (213) 380-5005.

8 pm: Music

Before he sings for Queen Elizabeth and before he sings for the Pope, a 27-year-old opera sensation will inaugurate Los Angeles’ newest venue. Russell Watson and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra are a good match for the new Kodak Theatre--a touch of Hollywood, a lot of buzz. The theater, an anchor of the massive Hollywood & Highland project, is going on to big things, too, like hosting concerts by Melissa Etheridge and Barry Manilow in December, and eventually the Academy Awards.* Russell Watson and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, at the Kodak Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., at Highland Ave., Hollywood, 8 p.m. $40 to $125. (323) 308-6363 or (213) 480-3232.

Freebies

* Guitarist and Wes Montgomery disciple Ronald Muldrow leads his quartet at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 5:30 p.m. (323) 857-6000.

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* Works by 27 finalists of more than 139 entries by media arts students from the 23 campuses of the Cal State University system will be screened at the CSU Media Arts Festival this weekend at Cal State Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St., 6 p.m. For complete schedule and other information, (562) 951-4065.