WEEKEND FORECAST

TODAY

MUSIC

Golden touch

“Someone who can play Mozart and Beethoven this well is worth his weight in gold,” Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon says of 26-year-old American pianist Jonathan Biss. Biss will be the soloist in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Leonard Slatkin, tonight at the Hollywood Bowl. Slatkin also will conduct Weber’s “Oberon” Overture and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., L.A. 8 p.m. today. $1 to $43. (323) 850-2000; www.hollywoodbowl.com/tix

POP MUSIC

Bad boy Adams visits

For a time, Ryan Adams seemed more interested in being alt-country’s ultimate bad boy than its most distinctive artist, but after his fascinating if inconsistent three-album flurry of 2005, the singer-songwriter has returned to the form that had people predicting greatness when he fronted Whiskeytown and first set out on his own. The new album, “Easy Tiger,” is an emotionally raw, musically direct collection that’s earning Adams some of the best reviews of his career.

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Wilshire Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. 7:30 p.m. today. $26.50 and $31.50 (sold out). (323) 655-0111.

THEATER

Mayhem in the country

In Noel Coward’s 1920s-era comic classic “Hay Fever,” directed by Robert Longbottom, members of the quirky, bohemian Bliss family -- unbeknownst to one another -- invite guests to their country home. Chaos ensues when the unwitting visitors arrive, expecting an intimate, romantic weekend.

“Hay Fever,” Old Globe Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park, San Diego. Opens 8 p.m. today. $19 to $62. (619) 234-5623; www.theoldglobe.org.

* Runs 7 p.m. Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Ends Aug. 19.

BOOKS

She’s with her book

Having written the definitive groupie memoir with 1987’s “I’m With the Band,” Pamela Des Barres has assumed the mantle of groupie historian, elevating the status of the ubiquitous and oft-maligned girls backstage from mere hangers-on to rock muses who influenced and shaped the history of rock ‘n’ roll. In her new book, “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” Des Barres interviews 24 self-styled groupies whose “friendships” with legendary rock bands date back to the ‘50s. For her Book Soup signing, Des Barres will be joined by several of the groupies in the book, including Cherry Vanilla, Gail Zappa, Lori Lightning and Pleasant Gehman.

Pamela Des Barres, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 7 tonight. (310) 659-3110.

FRIDAY

MOVIES

Perks of the night shift

The British comedic drama “Cashback” might be best described as Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Working the Night Shift at a Supermarket. Writer-director Sean Ellis expands his Oscar-nominated short about Ben (Sean Biggerstaff), an insomnia-addled art student prone to imagining female shoppers nude as he idly stocks the grocery shelves.

“Cashback,” rated R for graphic nudity, sexual content and language, opens Friday at the Regency Fairfax Cinemas, 7907 Beverly Blvd. at Fairfax Avenue, (323) 655-4010.

MUSIC

Kuti brings big brass

Femi Kuti is the oldest son of the legendary Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti. And like his father, he plays the saxophone, leads a powerhouse, horn-driven ensemble, and doesn’t hesitate to include activist political sentiments in his songs. It’s not likely, however, that he will marry 27 women in one day, as Fela Kuti once did. But expect Femi Kuti & the Positive Force to offer their own compelling take on the vigorously rhythmic, melodically engaging and irresistibly body-moving Afrobeat sounds pioneered by his father.

Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 9 p.m. Friday. $25. (323) 848-5100.

SATURDAY

POP MUSIC

Here comes Daft Punk

“Daft Punk is playing at my house,” New York dance-rock band LCD Soundsystem sang wishfully in its 2005 song of that title, a signifier of the French duo’s iconic status in the electronic music universe. Now it’s time for wishes to come true, as Daft Punk makes a rare foray onto the U.S. concert trail, donning the robot suits and plugging in

for such body-moving hits as “Da Funk” and “One More Time.”

Daft Punk, with Ratatat, SebastiAn and Kavinsky, Los Angeles Sports Arena, 3939 S. Figueroa St., L.A.. 9 p.m. Saturday. $50 (sold out). (213) 747-7111.

ART

The balance of nature

The paintings of San Francisco based artist Carrie Leeb suggest a desire to re-create a sense of the inner balance and quiet rhythms of nature. Leeb uses layered objects and varying levels of translucency, incorporating deliberate experimentation, fortuitous accidents and an understanding of the limitations and capabilities of her materials. Engaging the laws of gravity and the resistance between wax and water, Leeb employs organic materials, the marks of her own hand, adding and subtracting to create range and nuance in her paintings.

“Carrie Leeb: New Work,” Ruth Bachofner Gallery. 2525 Michigan Ave., G2, Santa Monica. Opens Saturday. (310) 829-3300.

* Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Ends Sept. 1.

SUNDAY

DANCE

Light on his feet

The always amazing Savion Glover brings his happy feet to Hollywood Bowl, tapping on a program that also features Bramwell Tovey conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in music with strong dance associations. Expect to hear “Slaughter on 10th Avenue” from “On Your Toes,” along with “America” and “Mambo” from “West Side Story” (two musicals respectively choreographed by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins), plus “Night Creature” and “The River” (two Duke Ellington scores choreographed by Alvin Ailey). Glover’s jazz trio will accompany him in one of the tap segments.

“Savion Glover: On Tap,” with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey, conductor. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. 7:30 p.m. Sunday. $7 to $49. (Garden and terrace box seats sold out.) (323) 850-2000; www.hollywoodbowl.com.

THEATER

A woman scorned

In a co-production with the La Jolla Playhouse, the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune presents its new play “The Deception,” a world premiere adaptation of Pierre Marivaux’s 18th century gender-bending romp, “La Fausse Suivante.” Adapted by Steven Epp and Dominique Serrand, who directs, the tale begins when a woman dresses as a man to learn more about her husband-to-be -- and what she discovers sets her on a wicked path of revenge.

“The Deception,” Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre at La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla. Opens 7 p.m. Sunday. $28 to $60. (858) 550-1010; www.lajollaplayhouse.org.

* Runs 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Ends Aug. 19.

MUSEUMS

Claremont artists

The word “locus” means “locality” or “place” in Latin. Claremont has long been home to a vibrant community of craftspeople and artists residing there to work, teach or simply pursue their lives. The Claremont Museum of Art presents “LOCUS I: Art and Craft of Claremont and the Region,” an exhibition that celebrates the work of 13 local artists.

“LOCUS I: Art and Craft of Claremont and the Region,” Claremont Museum of Art, 536 W. 1st St., Claremont. Opens Sunday. $3; 17 and younger, free. (909) 621-3200.

* Hours (new, beginning Saturday): 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday (until 8 p.m. on the first Friday of the month.) Exhibition ends Sept. 3.