Don’t Miss It

HAPPY PAWS AND FRIENDS PET EXPO

If you share your home with a creature that chirps, slithers, barks or hisses, we certainly hope, for your sake, that you own a pet. If so, this expo has hundreds of booths for your shopping pleasure, as well as celebrity animals (Disney's Air Bud and Tillman the skateboarding retriever), shows, a petting zoo and more product demonstrations than you can poop on. Check out the expo from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Cashman Convention Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for seniors, free for kids younger than 13; call 363-3051.

NEVADA DANCE PROJECT PRESENTS 'KALEIDOSCOPE'

This low-profile dance company kicks high with its fourth show, which spotlights contemporary pieces by 11 valley choreographers -- including former "Zumanity" dancers Kevin Gibbs and Sara Joel, "Phantom -- The Las Vegas Spectacular" dancer Courtney Combs, and "Ka" actor Gail Gilbert, who co-founded the company with University of Nevada, Las Vegas jazz professor Richard Havey. Watch the show at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center, 821 Las Vegas Blvd. North. Tickets are $10; call 229-6211.

HATTON V. MALIGNAGGI

One of the biggest draws possible in boxing hits Vegas this weekend, when England's Ricky "Hitman" Hatton (44-1, 31 KOs) hits IBF junior welterweight champion Paulie "Magic Man" Malignaggi (25-1, 5 KOs), who is sure to hit back.

Catch the action at 3 p.m. Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden arena, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $150-$1,000; call 474-4000.

Don't Miss It is compiled by Review-Journal writer Corey Levitan. Contact him at 383-0456 or clevitan@reviewjournal. com.

SEINFELD

Who are these people who still pay to see Jerry Seinfeld perform when he abandoned his sitcom a decade ago to voice cartoons and peddle American Express?

Who are these people?

They're the ones who realize that the king of observational comedy does not rest on his throne, that he updates his act every year to let fans in on the chaos that is his domesticity, and that there is no surer method of eliciting laughter without the involvement of tickling. See him at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $82.50-$165; call (877) 823-3378.

BACKSTREET BOYS

What better way to celebrate The Comedy Festival than by catching the Backstreet Boys' Unbreakable tour?

Just kidding. We enjoy music groups prefabricated for their look by money-grubbing idolmakers as much as the next newspaper entertainment guide. And is there anyone among us who can claim not to have constantly hummed "Bye Bye Bye" eight years ago? (Oh wait, that was 'N Sync.) See the boys at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Pearl at the Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road. Tickets are $48-$78; call 942-7777.