Three-day forecast

JAZZ

Festival at the Lagoon

For those who like their music with an ocean breeze, the 2003 Long Beach Jazz Festival checks in this weekend at Rainbow Lagoon Park. Things get started Friday with James Ingram, Brenda Russell and Kim Waters. Saturday’s lineup includes Marcus Miller, Rachelle Ferrell, Mark Antoine, Poncho Sanchez, Paul Taylor, Bobby Lyle and Louie Cruz Beltran Latin Jazz Band. Kirk Whalum, Roberta Flack and Ronnie Laws headline Sunday’s show that also includes Phil Perry, the Al Williams Jazz Society featuring Niki Haris, Jeff Kashiwa and others.

Long Beach Jazz Festival, Rainbow Lagoon Park, Shoreline Drive Between Pine and Linden avenues, Long Beach. Friday,

7 p.m.-10:30 p.m.; Saturday-

Sunday, 1 p.m.-10:30 p.m. $35-$160. (562) 424-0013.

FESTIVAL

Old World, new sounds

The Skirball Cultural Center kicks off its Zeitgeist International Jewish Arts Festival on Sunday with an event that features live

performances, workshops and traditional foods from around the world. The

Cracow Klezmer Band from Poland, Klezperanto and the Danish dance troupe Rosenzweig Works are slated to perform. Additionally,

readings, art and folk dance

workshops are among the family fare planned. The Zeitgeist Festival, which runs through March, will introduce to American audiences nearly a dozen music, dance and theater companies from Europe and Russia who use Jewish traditions as inspiration for contemporary works.

Spirit of the Times: A Family Celebration, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $6-$8, members and younger than 12 free. (323) 655-8587.

ART/FILM

Short films from the U.S. and Europe

They may be head-scratchers, but the avant-garde short films that screen as part of the “From Bauhaus to Hollywood” event are guaranteed to provide cocktail conversation for quite a while. Organized in conjunction with the Norton Simon Museum’s “From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde” exhibit, the program of films is broken into two nights and two locations. “Avant-Garde Film in Europe” on Friday screens works from the 1920s to the 1950s by Luis Bunuel, Oskar Fischinger and others. On the next night, “Avant-Garde Film in America” covers the 1940s to the 1980s with films by Kenneth Anger, Curtis Harrington and others.

* “From Bauhaus to Hollywood: Avant-Garde Film in Europe,” Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Friday, 7 p.m. Admission included in museum fees: $3-$6; 18 and under, free. (626) 449-6840.

* “From Bauhaus to Hollywood: Avant-Garde Film in America,” MAK Center (outdoor area), 835 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood.

Saturday, 8 p.m. $5-$10; reservations encouraged. (323) 651-1510.

POP MUSIC

Sanitarium Tour at the Coliseum

Things figure to go a little better for Limp Bizkit in its hometown on Saturday than they did on the recent Summer Sanitarium Tour stop in Chicago, where the audience razzed the band and singer Fred Durst insulted the audience and cut the set short. It’s not just a day at the park for some of the other acts, either. Headliner Metallica might take some heat if there’s lingering fan hostility from the Napster uproar, and there will be curiosity about Linkin Park, whose singer Chester Bennington has been dogged by health problems. One thing for sure: It will all happen at high volume and a hard-rocking pace.

Summer Sanitarium, with Metallica, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Deftones and Mudvayne, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 3911 S. Figueroa St., L.A. Saturday, 3 p.m. $55-$75. (213) 748-6136.

MUSIC

Kahane and Beethoven

Jeffrey Kahane surveys all five Beethoven piano concerts as soloist and conductor over two nights at the Hollywood Bowl. Tuesday he’ll play and conduct Concertos Nos. 2, 3 and 4. On Aug. 14, the lineup includes Concertos Nos. 1 and 5. The orchestra both nights will be the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Jeffrey Kahane, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. Tue. and Aug. 14,

8 p.m. $1-$88. (323) 850-2000.

MOVIES

The son’s surf doc

Thirty-seven years after his father, Bruce, set the tone for surfing documentaries with “The Endless Summer,” filmmaker Dana Brown rides his own wave with “Step Into Liquid.” Traveling to some of the most exotic spots on Earth and also some of the most unlikely -- Wisconsin? -- mapping the passion and thrills that keep surfers hanging ten, Brown brings us up to date on a sport that has grown from a local fad to big international business. The film captures wave riders ranging from world-class surfers such as Kelly Slater to Dale Webster, a man who hasn’t missed a day of surfing in 27 years.

“Step Into Liquid,” unrated, opens Friday exclusively at the Landmark Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West L.A. (310) 478-6379 and the Regency Lido, 3459 Via Lido, Newport Beach (949) 673-8350.

THEATER

Williams’ ‘Warnings’

L.A. actors John Fleck, Travis Michael Holder, Wendy Johnson and others join the cast of MESA Production Company’s restaging of its Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival production, “Small Craft Warnings.” In this Williams’ play, ragtag members of society’s rejects reveal their darkest fears.

Evidence Room, 2220 Beverly Blvd., L.A. Opens today. Runs Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m.; ends Sept. 7. $20. (213) 381-7118.

ARCHEOLOGY

Secrets of Pyramid

Who were the builders of the Great Pyramid? Has the whole of the

Valley of the Golden

Mummies been uncovered? Has the mummy of Queen Nefertiti truly been found? These and other questions will be addressed in a speech, “Secrets of the Great Pyramid -- Recent Discoveries,” given by Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The Orange County Public Library and the Orange County Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt sponsor the event and the book signing that will follow.

“Secrets of the Great Pyramid -- Recent Discoveries,” Laguna Hills Community Center, 25555 Alicia Parkway, Laguna Hills. Wednesday, 8 p.m. $5. (714) 566-3064.

FESTIVAL

63rd Nisei Week

The 63rd annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival opens Saturday in Little Tokyo. Nisei Week, L.A.’s oldest ethnic festival dating to 1934

(Nisei Week was not held from 1942-1949), runs through Aug. 17 and features a queen coronation, grand parade, taiko drumming, a tofu festival and a car show. For the full schedule, see www.niseiweek.org .

Nisei Week Japanese Festival, Little Tokyo, 327 1/2 E. 1st St., L.A. Free. (213) 687-7193.