WEEKEND FORECAST

TODAY

The Peas at the Greek

The Black Eyed Peas are feeling so in sync these days that instead of agonizing over which song from their new album to release as a single, they’ve just gone ahead and released two at once (“Don’t Lie” and “Like That”). Things should be jumping at this hometown show by the hip-hop quartet, which has worked its way up from street-level rhymers to pop-savvy mega-sellers. Also on the bill is L.A. rapper Talib Kweli.

The Black Eyed Peas, Greek Theatre, 2700 Vermont Canyon Road, L.A. 7:30 tonight. $29.50 to $49.50. (323) 665-1927.

Festival of gay comedy

Lea DeLaria headlines and the troupe the Gay Mafia hosts the premiere of the gay comedy festival Outlaugh 2005. Other performers include Ant, Bob Smith, the Nellie Olesons, Page Hurwitz, Jason Dudey, Jerry Calumn and special guests, including “Amazing Race” winner Reichen Lehmkuhl. The bill changes nightly.

Outlaugh 2005, Highways Gallery and Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica. 8:30 tonight. Today, pay what you can (portion of proceeds to benefit volunteer group L.A. Shanti). (800) 595-4849. www.thegaymafia.net/outlaugh.

* Also 8:30 p.m. Friday, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday. $20.

Forti at REDCAT

The NOW (New Original Works) Fest at REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall continues with a program featuring improvisational dance icon Simone Forti in a collaboration titled “Unbuttoned Sleeves,” also enlisting dancer Sarah Swenson, theater artist Terrence Luke Johnson and composer Douglas Wadle. The program has a generous helping of video experiment: Rodney Mason’s multidisciplinary “Origins of Man” (a collaboration with hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris) and Sara Wookey’s “Love’s Geography: Revisited,” with text by Peggy Phelan and music by Seamus Cater.

NOW Fest, REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, 631 W. 2nd St., downtown L.A.

8:30 tonight. $14 to $18.

(213) 237-2800; www.redcat.org.

* Also 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

FRIDAY

Dirty joke: Tell, repeat

It’s an old burlesque gag, reputed to be the dirtiest joke ever, and it apparently has enough resonance that Paul Provenza and Penn Gillette decided to make a feature-length film about it called “The Aristocrats.” The opening and the punchline are always the same; it’s the middle that changes in the telling by more than 100 comedians, including George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Carey, Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman. Provenza and Gillette scrutinize the ability of the individual to put their laugh stamp on something familiar.

“The Aristocrats,” unrated, opens Friday at the ArcLight, 6360 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 464-4226; and the Mann Criterion 6, 1313 3rd St., Santa Monica, (310) 248-MANN #019.

SATURDAY

Grievances foster art

The Chicano movement in the late 1960s

galvanized Mexican Americans in voicing their political grievances, in turn fostering an art movement influenced by social change and

traditional mural art unique to the U.S. The group show “La Onda” features seven contemporary artists whose diverse works demonstrate

how far the movement

has come. Paintings by Adan Hernandez are also on view in the project room.

“La Onda” and “Adan Hernandez,” Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., E-2, Santa Monica. Opens Saturday. (310) 264-1760.

* Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays. Ends Sept. 3.

One crash, two wives

In “The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,” Arthur Miller’s satire on the state of contemporary marriage, a businessman who has been secretly juggling dual lives -- and two wives -- must deal with the consequences when a car accident brings both wives to his hospital bedside.

“The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. Opens 8 p.m. Saturday. $15-$25. (310) 455-3723. www.theatricum.com.

* Runs 8 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 4, 3 p.m. on Oct. 1, 8; ends Oct. 8. Pre-show discussion 6:30 p.m. Aug. 7.

Young Artists

The Young Artists International Laureates Festival is an annual event that brings young prizewinners from around the world to Los Angeles for a weeklong series of concerts and recitals. The big concert takes place Saturday at Walt Disney Concert Hall with festival founder Eduard Schmieder conducting works by Kreisler, Rota, Poulenc and Schubert as arranged by Mahler. Cameron Carpenter is the soloist in Poulenc’s Organ Concerto.

Laureates Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. 8 p.m. Saturday. $20 to $75. (310) 281-3303. www.youngartists.org.

SUNDAY

Art from California

This summer, two exhibitions at the Laguna Art Museum emphasize the art movements and contributions of the Golden State. “While Pollock Was Sleeping: Bay Area Abstract Expressionism From the Blair Collection” explores Northern California’s avant-garde paintings of the 1950s and ‘60s. “California Art From the Permanent Collection Part I: The Beginning 1832-1925,” the first in a series highlighting 19th century works to the present, features Impressionist through early modern works.

Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. Opens Sunday. $7-$9; 11 and younger, free. (949) 494-8971.

* Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Ends Oct. 2.