Get your JAMS on

Fresh from their performance at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the Colgate 13 travel to Santa Monica this weekend as part of their annual two-week-long tour. Hailing from Colgate University in central New York State, the Colgate 13 has delighted audiences with fun, surprises and a cappella sounds for more than 60 years.

Old and new musical favorites supply the Colgate 13 with an repertoire of more than 100 songs. A free show will be staged at the Santa Monica Pier at 2 p.m. in the Central Plaza.

Pier JAMS is an acronym for Santa Monica Pier Junior Acoustic Music Series, a program dedicated to giving young musicians the opportunity to perform in a high-profile venue. Community and student musical groups that would like to schedule a concert may call (310) 458-8901.

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A big, shiny Jubilee

The Westside Eclectic hosts a hilarious all-improvised show featuring “The 313” for the “The Shiner New Year Jubilee” on Sunday at 7 p.m.

Get your new year off to a entertaining start with the funny, fast-paced improv quartet “Shiner.” The improv troupe of Jen Cain, Mark Gagliardi, Jennifer Marie Kelley and Hal Lublin, collectively known as “Shiner,” is resolving to make 2007 “the funniest year ever.”

“The 313” features Mad TV’s Keegan Michael Key, Larry Joe Campbell of “According to Jim,” MTV’s “Wild ‘n’ Out’s” Josh and Nyima Funk, Marc Evan Jackson of “Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty” and Andy Cobb from “Family Guy.”

Tickets are $8.

For more information, call (310) 451-0850.

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Life path healer teaches the

Intuitive life path healer Linda Drake will be coming to Southern California to offer workshops around her new book, “Reaching Through the Veil to Heal,” which offers a better understanding of life, death and the many stages of grief we experience when we lose a loved one. Drake channels spirits’ messages to assist us in healing the emotions of grief that can sabotage and cripple our lives if we do not understand them. The knowledge Drake has gained through her years of communicating with spirits on the other side enables her to offer her audience a unique yet comforting perspective of the existence of loved ones beyond the human experience.

In Drake’s workshops and book signings she will share tools to heal the emotional roller coaster of grief. She will teach how to open our eyes to the many ways our loved ones communicate with us from beyond human life.

Drake will be in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, at The Bodhi Tree, 8585 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, at 7 p.m.

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