WEEKEND FORECAST
TODAY
EVENTS
Hooping it up again
Everyone knows what to expect at a Harlem Globetrotters game: the same opponent (New York Nationals), the same outcome (Globetrotters win) and even the same music (the 1949 whistled version of “Sweet Georgia Brown”). There’s not much suspense, but it’s timeless entertainment. Their mix of athleticism and comedy has been a favorite with fans of all ages for more than 80 years. During that span, the team has traveled to 118 nations and performed before more than 120 million people.
The Harlem Globetrotters, UCSB Events Center, UCSB Campus, Santa Barbara. 7 tonight. $20 to $45. (805) 893-2833.
* Also 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Honda Center, 2695 E. Katella Blvd., Anaheim, $16 to $135. (714) 740-2000. And 1 p.m. Monday at Staples Center, 1111 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. $16 to $135. (213) 480-3232.
FRIDAY
POP MUSIC
From a.m. till p.m.
Pete Yorn’s tour is titled the “Day & Night 2007,” an allusion to the indie-rock poster boy’s three-album “day” trilogy. His debut was “Music for the Morning After”; he followed it with “The Day I Forgot,” and “Nightcrawler” came out last year. Backed by the country-rocking Brits-gone-California band Minibar, the New Jersey native will be showing his knack for hooks and a plaintive lyric.
Pete Yorn, the Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. 8 p.m. Friday. $28.50. (213) 380-5005.
MOVIES
‘Glory’ reopens
The Algerian World War II drama “Days of Glory (Indigenes)” chronicles the unsung story of a band of African soldiers who fought valiantly for France against the Nazis. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb, it is nominated for a best foreign language film Academy Award.
“Days of Glory (Indigenes),” rated R for war violence and brief language, reopens Friday in selected theaters following its December awards qualifying run.
DANCE
In Goode company
Based in the Bay Area, the Joe Goode Performance Group celebrates its 20th anniversary Friday at the Irvine Barclay Theatre with the kind of multidisciplinary movement theater that a Times reviewer praised for “dramatic freshness and choreographic power” on one of the company’s previous visits. “Stay Together” is a recent dance-theater collaboration with composer Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony. And “Deeply There” is a piece subtitled “stories of a neighborhood” that received the New York Bessie Award in 1998.
Joe Goode Performance Group, Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. 8 p.m. Friday, $33, $38 and $100. (949) 854-4646; www.thebarclay.org
SATURDAY
EVENTS
Haggis and bagpipes
For this year only, the popular highland games and sheepherding demonstrations will not be a part of the 14th annual Queen Mary Scottish Festival this weekend in Long Beach. In their place, a haggis-eating competition and other eating contests will be featured along with the usual dancing, bagpipes, fiddles, whistles, pipes, bands, historical reenactments, Scottish and British foods, ales and more. Featured acts on two stages will include Alex Beaton, the Men of Worth, Duncan Faure and Lalla Rookh.
Queen Mary Scottish Festival, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. $13 to $25, 4 and younger free. (562) 435-3511.
* Also 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
THEATER
An idea thaws out
A doctoral student’s research on the shrinking polar cap leads her to a reclusive scientist who was an ignored voice of early warning on global warming. That’s the setup for David Rambo’s new two-character play, “The Ice-Breaker,” his first since the popular “God’s Man in Texas.” Laguna Playhouse’s artistic director, Andrew Barnicle, plays the recluse in his first acting turn on his own stage in more than six years.
“The Ice-Breaker,” Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach. Opens 8 p.m. Saturday. $30 to $65. (949) 497-2787; www.lagunaplayhouse.com
* Runs 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays (except 2 and 7 p.m. March 11). Ends March 18.
SUNDAY
MUSEUMS
Shanghai treasures
The Bowers Museum in Orange County rings in the auspicious year of the pig with the exhibition “Treasures From Shanghai: 5,000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture.” Ancient and priceless objects, including pottery jars, jade ornaments, oracle bones, ceramics and lacquer boxes on loan from Shanghai Museum, trace China’s history, art and culture beginning from the Neolithic Period (c. 3000 BC) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
“Treasures From Shanghai: 5,000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture,” Bowers Museum, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana. Opens Sunday. $5 to $19; 4 and younger, free. (714) 567-3600.
* Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. Ends Aug. 19.
MUSIC
Nothing but Buxtehude
When he was 19, the story goes, Bach walked 250 miles to Lubeck,
Germany, to hear the great organist Dieterich Buxtehude perform. Granted a four-week leave from his church in Arnstadt to make the trek, Bach was so taken by Buxtehude’s playing that he stayed for four months. Local music-lovers won’t have to travel so far to catch organist Lenora McCroskey’s program, “The Musical World of Buxtehude: 1637-1707,” Sunday in the Santuary at First Congregational Church. McCroskey has been a professor of organ and harpsichord in the College of Music at the University of North Texas since 1982. The Great Organs at First Congregational are said to comprise the largest church pipe organ in the world.
Lenora McCroskey, First Congregational Church, 540 S. Commonwealth Ave., Los Angeles 4 p.m. Sunday. $15 (in advance). $19 (at the door). (213) 385-1345. www.fccla.org
MONDAY
MUSIC
The next stars?
Composer Steven Stucky curates the first of the relocated Monday Evening Concert Series in Zipper Hall at the downtown Colburn School of the Performing Arts. The program, titled “The Americas: The Next Generation,” will include new works and West
Coast premieres by Andrew Norman, James Matheson, Sean Shepherd, Philippe Bodin, Ana Lara and Brian Current. These may be mostly unfamiliar names now, but who knows about the future? Donald Crockett will conduct the Xtet ensemble, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year and has long been associated with the MEC series.
Monday Evening Concerts, Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts, 200 S. Grand Ave., L.A. 8 p.m. Monday. $10 and $25. (310) 836-6632. www.mondayeveningconcerts.org
TUESDAY
WORDS
Thug culture
The rap duo Clipse made a splash last year with “Hell Hath No Fury,” a sharp, flinty album produced by rap luminary Pharrell. But their brand of drug-touting rhymes, dubbed cocaine-rap by the people who come up with such things, likely doesn’t sit well with cultural critic Stanley Crouch. The founder of the Jazz at the Lincoln Center series and author of the contrarian “The All-American Skin Game” has been known to come to blows, literally, over his very low opinions about gangsta rap. In this presentation, “Blues for Black America,” the blustery critic discusses the rise of hoodlums and pimps as role models and the “supposed sanitization” of the “N-word.”
Zocalo “Public Square” Lecture Series presents Stanley Crouch, Yosemite Hall at the Center for Healthy Communities, the California Endowment, 1000 N. Alameda St., L.A. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free. (213) 403-0416.
WEDNESDAY
THEATER
Yiddish revue
“On Second Avenue,” Moishe Rosenfeld and Zalmen Mlotek’s Off Broadway revue of classic songs and scenes from the Yiddish theater -- performed in Yiddish and English -- makes a Los Angeles stop with Mike Burstyn reprising his starring role. The production marks the 92nd consecutive season of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre.
“On Second Avenue,” Gindi Auditorium, University of Judaism, 15600 Mulholland Drive, L.A. Opens 8 p.m. Wednesday. $40 to $100. (877) SEE-PLAY.
* Runs 8 p.m. next Thursday, 2 p.m. Feb. 23, 9:30 p.m. Feb. 24, noon and 4:30 p.m. Feb. 25; ends Feb. 25.