12 things to do in San Diego this weekend: Día de los Muertos celebration, Trick-or-treat on India Street, Mac n’ Cheese Fest and more

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24th annual Día de los Muertos Celebration

Through Nov. 2. Sherman Heights Community Center, 2258 Island Ave., San Diego. Free admission. (619) 232-5181. shermanheights.com and facebook.com/Shermanheightscc

The 2017 Pixar/Disney movie “Coco” may have enlightened the masses to the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday and its rich cultural vibe, but long before “Coco,” the Sherman Heights neighborhood began honoring the observance in an authentic way, with myriad events throughout the week and throughout the community. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday is the Muertos Festival, featuring traditional altar installations, music and food. On Nov. 2, at 7 p.m., the celebration of the dearly departed ends with a sacred Muertos Candlelight Procession from the Sherman Heights Community Center to Chicano Park. The procession will be guided by local Aztec dance group Calpulli Mexihca, and free shuttle transportation back to the community center will be available. CYNTHIA ZANONE

San Diego Mac n’ Cheese Fest

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway, downtown San Diego. $40 general admission; $70 VIP. sandiegomacncheese.com

Yummy, gooey, bubbling dishes of one of America’s most popular comfort foods will take center stage on Saturday at the fourth annual Mac n’ Cheese Fest. The lineup is bigger this year, with 20 top regional restaurants competing. Will reigning champs Tavern + Bowl (Best Gourmet Mac n’ Cheese) and Stacked: Food Well Built (People’s Choice) retain their titles? You and a panel of expert judges will determine the winners. The 21-and-older showdown also includes more than a dozen craft beers, wines and ciders. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the World Wide Network of Learning. CAROLINA GUSMAN

The Bulls of Sant’Agata Charge Little Italy: Lamborghini Car Show

6 to 11 p.m. Saturday. West Fir Street, between India Street and Kettner Boulevard, Little Italy. (619) 233-3898. littleitalysd.com

More than 40 of the shiniest, hard-bodied “Italian bulls” in the car world will return to Little Italy for The Bulls of Sant’Agata Charge Little Italy: Lamborghini Car Show. Dozens of Lambos will line West Fir Street so car enthusiasts and casual admirers can get close and pose for photos with the luxury sports cars. Along with the fancy rides, there will be entertainment for families, food from local restaurants, and music. LISA DEADERICK

“Macbeth”

8 p.m. through Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Coronado Playhouse, 1835 Strand Way, Coronado. Free. (619) 435-4856. coronadoplayhouse.com

Something wicked this way comes. No, not that “Wicked” (the mega-musical that’s hitting town on tour next week), but the Shakespeare tragedy that gave us that immortal line from its trio of “weird sisters.” Coronado Playhouse is staging a free production of the Bard’s great work about ambition, madness and meddling witches in chilly Scotland. JAMES HEBERT

Fallbrook Harvest Faire

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Along Main Avenue in downtown Fallbrook. (760) 728-5845. fallbrookchamberofcommerce.org

It’s time for sweaters and soup and plenty of pumpkins, and the annual Fallbrook Harvest Faire is the place to celebrate the season. Enjoy a day of fall fun with handmade crafts, local foods, a petting zoo, pony rides, pumpkin contests, a pie-baking contest and scarecrows. There’s live music with David Maldonado and the Les Allen Band in the beer and wine garden, along with bourbon tasting to really warm you up. In the pumpkin contest, there are prizes for the best-decorated, best-carved and largest pumpkins, and kids can have their pictures taken with Miss Fallbrook and her court between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Halloween costume contest and parade is open to kids from babies to eighth-graders. LISA DEADERICK

Trick-or-Treat on India Street

5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight. Piazza della Famiglia, India and Date streets, Little Italy. Free. littleitalysd.com

Children dressed as witches, goblins and caped crusaders will have their Halloween bags in tow as they descend on the streets of Little Italy for Friday’s 12th annual Trick-or-Treat on India Street. Local merchants will open their doors to hand out candy and other treats to the little ones. In addition, there will be plenty of photo opportunities around the neighborhood. Families can pick up a map of participating businesses starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Piazza della Famiglia. We’ve also conjured up 10 of San Diego’s best ghoulish events to get you in the spirit of the season, no matter how old you are. CAROLINA GUSMAN

Jesse Colin Young

8 p.m. Sunday. Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. $36 advance; $38 day of show; $63 reserved loft seating; must be 21 or older to attend. (858) 481-8140. bellyup.com

As a key member of The Youngbloods from 1965 to 1972, Jesse Colin Young cut a dashing young figure. His folk-rocking band was a staple on FM radio, and Young went on to achieve success as a solo artist. A bout with Lyme disease a decade ago prompted him to quit touring. Now 76 and recovered from his 2017 heart surgery, Young is back on the road with a seven-piece band of young Berklee College of Music grads. It includes his son, six-string electric bassist Tristan Young, who also co-produced his dad’s upcoming album “Dreamers.” GEORGE VARGA

“The Steel Goddess: Works by Faiya Fredman 1998-2018”

Through Jan. 13. Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside. $5-$8. First Sunday of every month free. (760) 435-3720. oma-online.org

At age 93, La Jolla artist Faiya Fredman well deserves being called the matriarch of San Diego’s contemporary art scene, which is how Mark-Elliott Lugo, who curated her new exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art, refers to her. The show features 70 of her notable works from the past 20 years, including large-scale steel sculptures, watercolors, lenticular prints and mixed-media pieces, many of them created especially for this exhibit. Since 1951, Fredman has been experimenting with a wide range of materials and techniques. “The Steel Goddess” refers to her continuing high level of fearless exploration as well as the steel goddess figures she began creating in the 1990s, inspired by her travels in Greece and Turkey and her lifelong fascination with ancient civilizations. LONNIE BURSTEIN HEWITT

Space 4 Art at Sparks Gallery: “Convergence — Space 4 Art”

Through Jan. 20. Sparks Gallery, 530 Sixth Ave., downtown. Free. (619) 696-1416. sparksgallery.com and sdspace4art.org

Space 4 Art may have lost half of its studios and galleries last year due to downsizing, and it may be losing work/live spaces in East Village due to new downtown developments, but it’s not about to go anywhere. It’s now working to build a “multidisciplinary arts center” on Market Street in Sherman Heights — one that will feature artist spaces for live and work, galleries, an amphitheater, an event space, a classroom, and a wood and metal shop. A new exhibit at Sparks Gallery downtown, titled “Convergence — Space 4 Art,” is showcasing the work of artists “who have lived, worked, and developed their careers at Space 4 Art” — artists like founders Bob Leathers and Cheryl Nickel, May Ling Martinez, Siobhán Arnold and Derek Weiler. The exhibit takes over Sparks Gallery’s lower level and will be on display through Jan. 20. MICHAEL JAMES ROCHA

“Being Here With You/Estando aquí contigo”

Through Feb. 3. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 1100 Kettner Blvd., downtown. $10; $5 seniors and students 26 and over; free for those 25 and under, military and their families. (858) 454-3541. mcasd.org

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s newest exhibition gets its title from a line the 1960 song “Angel Baby,” written by 14-year-old Rosalie Hamlin, who lived in National City. The self-recorded “Angel Baby,” which was Rosie and the Originals’ only hit and eventually became a bilingual oldies classic, “spoke to our region’s homegrown talent,” said Jill Dawsey, the museum’s curator. The exhibition “Being Here With You/Estando aquí contigo,” on exhibit through Feb. 3 at MCASD’s downtown campus, brings together 42 regional artists from both sides of the border. The artists, who were selected by the museum, range from early career to established and from new media to traditional. MARTINA SCHIMITSCHEK

“Guadalupe in the Guest Room”

8 p.m. tonight; 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. New Village Arts Theatre, 2787 State St., Carlsbad. $33-$36 (discounts available). (760) 433-3245. newvillagearts.org

The telenovela — that melodramatic genre of Spanish-language soap opera — serves as a kind of emotional lifeline for the two main characters in Tony Meneses’ gently affecting play “Guadalupe in the Guest Room.” And one of those television shows in particular connects Guadalupe and her son-in-law Steve both to each other and to someone they’re mutually grieving. The telenovela vignettes are enacted with winning wit in New Village Arts’ West Coast premiere of the piece, staged by Nadia Guevara (in her main-stage NVA directing debut) with plenty of heart. While the play’s more realistic moments prove a little trickier to pull off, the play might still make you believe in the power of a little pulpy TV. JAMES HEBERT

UC San Diego Department of Music and ArtPower present “Inheritance”

7 p.m. tonight and Saturday. Conrad Prebys Experimental Theater, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. $9-$25. (858) 534-8497. artpower.ucsd.edu; inheritance-opera.com

How do you tell the story of a brilliant but conflicted woman who constantly added on rooms to her Victorian-style home? How do you display on stage the labyrinthine house, which was said to be haunted and later became a somewhat garish tourist site? And, most importantly, how do you explore the issue of gun violence through music, voice, beauty, compassion and humor? The answers will be revealed in the world premiere of “Inheritance,” a groundbreaking chamber opera co-presented by ArtPower and the UC San Diego Music Department on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. BETH WOOD

lisa.deaderick@sduniontribune.com



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