BEST BETS Saturday 1/13

9:30pm

Pop Music

If “Mambo Italiano” could be a hit in the 1950s, maybe it’s time for “Mambo Colorado” in the 2000s. Or at least mambo from Colorado, in the form of Cabaret Diosa, a Boulder band that combines the tropical beat with a playful nod to a wide-screen Hollywood vision of Latin music and romance.

* Cabaret Diosa, with Optic Nerve and Psydecar, at the Temple Bar, 1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, 9:30 p.m. $7. (310) 393-6611.

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all day

Photography

A selection of prints spanning the lengthy career of one of the most distinguished photographers living today will compose “Ruth Bernhard: A Celebration in Her 96th Year,” opening Saturday at Peter Fetterman Gallery. Bernhard was once called “. . . the greatest photographer of the nude” by Ansel Adams--no slouch himself--and her works demonstrate an extraordinary take on the often difficult art of nude and still-life photography.

* “Ruth Bernhard: A Celebration in Her 96th Year,” Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave., A-7, Santa Monica. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Ends March 10. A reception for the artist will be held 2-6 p.m. Saturday. Free. (310) 453-6463.

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Architecture

Tour a Los Angeles landmark as the Trust for Preservation of Cultural Heritage hosts an hourlong tour of the Ennis-Brown House Saturday. Located in Los Feliz, the home is the last and largest of the four Mayan-inspired textile-block concrete structures Frank Lloyd Wright built in L.A. in 1924. It is also the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Southern California currently open for viewing. If you are not an architecture buff, you may recognize the residence as the interior used for scenes in Dr. Tyrrel’s apartment in Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner.” This is Hollywood after all.

* Tours will be held from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and are by reservation only. $10 adults; $5 students, seniors and children. Tickets and parking map and location will be sent to visitors following reservations. (323) 660-0607 or www.ennisbrownhouse.org.

7:30pm

Music

Acoustic music master, critically acclaimed hammered dulcimer virtuoso, troubadour and multiple Grammy award nominee John McCutcheon will be presented in concert by the Performances to Grow On family arts series.

* “John McCutcheon in Concert,” Church of Religious Science, 101 S. Laurel, Ventura, 7:30 p.m. $15-$18. (805) 650-9688, (805) 646-8907.

8pm

Music

Master pianist Mikhail Voskresensky returns to Southern California with a varied program including Schumann’s “Davidsbundler” Dances, Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5, three songs by Schubert-Liszt and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”

* Mikhail Voskresensky, Scherr Forum at the Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, 7:30 p.m. $21.50. (805) 643-1751.

8pm

Music

Timothy Muffitt, third candidate for the post of music director of the Long Beach Symphony, takes over that orchestra’s podium to lead Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, the suite from Falla’s “Three-Cornered Hat” ballet and the Concerto for flute and harp by Lowell Liebermann.

* The Long Beach Symphony, Terrace Theater at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, 8 p.m. $13-$55. (562) 436-3203.

8pm

Theater

John DiFusco, the original director and co-creator of the Vietnam War play “Tracers,” returns to stage the play’s 20th-anniversary production at the theater where it originated, the Odyssey. The play went on to success in New York, London and elsewhere.

* “Tracers,” Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 7 p.m. $19.50-$23.50; opening night, $26. (310) 477-2055.

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FREEBIE: Violinist Amy Hershberger and three friends give a chamber music program of works by Bach and Brahms in Munson Recital Hall at Azusa Pacific University, 901 E. Alosta, Azusa, at 8 p.m. (626) 815-3846.