DON’T MISS IT

HOLIDAY SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING & SPRINGBOARD DIVING SHOW

Remember Martin Short and Harry Shearer in that 1984 sketch from "Saturday Night Live," wearing life jackets, bathing caps and nose plugs while nearly drowning themselves in self-importance and five feet of water?

The city of Las Vegas hopes you don't. It wants your utmost respect when teams of young people from all around Clark County compete to see who performs to holiday music the most synchronously.

Dive in at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Municipal Pool, 431 E. Bonanza Road. Admission is free; call 229-6309.

MISTERIOS VS. COBARDES

Holy fake Mexican Oedipal complex, Batman! What sounds like fathers and sons fighting it out -- Rey Misterio Sr. and Jr. take on El Cobarde Jr. and Sr. in traditional Lucha Libre (Spanish for "freestyle") wrestling -- is lessened by the fact that the Misterios are actually uncle and nephew. (Don't ask.)

The tag-team action -- which features masks and more acrobatics than World Wrestling Entertainment -- begins at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Star of the Desert Arena at Buffalo Bill's, Interstate 15 South at Primm. Tickets are $19.95-$34.95; call (800) 386-7867.

WORLD STARS OF MAGIC

Abracadabra! It's five -- count 'em, five -- magicians for the price of a third of one Strip magician.

Kevin James, Tony Chapek, John Archer, Joseph Gabriel and -- direct from Poland -- the Great Tomsoni & Co. promise not to make your wallet disappear. Rabbits exit hats at 7:30 p.m. today through Sunday at the Suncoast showroom, 9090 Alta Drive. Tickets are $22-$44; call 636-7075.

THE NUTCRACKER

The Nevada Ballet Theatre presents its 28th annual production of "The Nutcracker," starring 80 kids ages 5 to 14.

For the first time, nine dancers come from outside the theater's academy. (Auditions took place in September.) Also new are photos with the snowflake ballerinas, selling for $10 in the lobby at each intermission.

The nuts crack at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, with additional performances through Dec. 28, in the Judy Bayley Theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Tickets are $45-$85; call 895-2787.

GRETCHEN WILSON

Self-proclaimed "Redneck Woman" Gretchen Wilson rides the National Finals Rodeo out of town with a concert that may feature special guests such as John Rich (her "Come to Bed" duet partner). Y'all come on over, 10 p.m. today or 9 p.m. Saturday, to the Las Vegas Hilton Theater, 3000 Paradise Road. Tickets are $65.51-$98.51; call 732-5755.

Don't Miss It is complied by Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Corey Levitan. Contact him at clevitan@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0456.