Last Chance: Ends This Weekend

* Performing Arts: The L.A. Philharmonic, with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting, performs “Dance Suite” (Bartok), Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” (Leonard Bernstein) and “Symphonic Dances” (Rachmaninoff). Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., (323) 850-2000. Today and Friday, 8 p.m.; also Sunday, 2:30 p.m. $12 to $78.

* Film: Sunday is the closing night of the American Film Institute Festival 2001. Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Blvd., L.A., (866) AFI-FEST. 7:30 p.m.

* Theater: “Everyday Life,” Rainer Maria Rilke’s rarely produced fin de siecle drama about a solipsistic young artist struck broadside by love, is a muted miniaturist portrait of an intellectually tumultuous era, rendered with passion and restraint by director Gar Campbell and an elegant cast. Pacific Resident Theatre, 7051/2 Venice Blvd., Venice, (310) 822-8392. Today to Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. Ends Sunday. $20 to $23.

* Art: The “Lewis Baltz: Night Cities” exhibition ends Saturday at Gallery Luisotti, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica, (310) 453-0043. It’s a series of large-scale color photographs exploring the European urban night landscape, created between 1988 and 1992.