Celebration

A celebration following the Boston Bruins' 1-0 overtime win over the Washington Capitals on Thursday evening took a turn for the rowdy. As Bruins fans celebrated their team's dramatic win, they pushed out a pane of glass that encircles the ice and it fell on David Krejci's head. Each pane reportedly weighs about 125 pounds. Krejci remained on his hands and knees for a few moments before standing up. He did not participate in Friday's practice.  "I got a little sore neck but other than that I am good and I'll play tomorrow," Krejci told reporters on Friday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Clippers' Game 7 celebration started in bits and pieces on the court Sunday as the clock wound closer and closer to zero. Chris Paul barked "Let's go! We goin' finish it!" with 30.2 seconds left in the game. Caron Butler screamed "Yes, yes, yes!" as the final ticks ticked away. And when it was finally over, Mo Williams walked by the scorer's table, muttering "Big win right here, man," immensely pleased that the Clippers had won their first Game 7 in franchise history.

A wealth of holiday music and dance awaits the public during the 50th Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration , a six-hour extravaganza featuring both contemporary and traditional performances. More than 40 groups reflecting L.A.'s diverse cultural landscape have been selected to present music as diverse as hip-hop and handbells. The show is free (even parking) and will be broadcast live in HD on KCET, on the radio at 90.7 KPFK, and on the Web at kcet.org. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave. 3 p.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.

I'll waltz to Jim Murray's comments (Aug. 29), rather than doing a sack dance to celebrate the end of the sack dance. DICK THIES Long Beach

Each year before the Persian New Year of Nowruz, Iranians gather on Southern California beaches to celebrate a festival of fire. It's part party, part cathartic ritual. Participants build small bonfires -- meant to represent all the bad of the previous year -- and then leap over the flames. But on Tuesday night at Dockweiler State Beach, some of them didn't quite clear the fires. Los Angeles Fire Department medics were called out several times to treat people who got burned.

Downtown Los Angeles could really use more public dance sequences. Typically the stuff of choreographed big-screen fantasies that probably haven't been seen in this part of town since Joseph Gordon-Levitt's giddy turn in"(500) Days of Summer,"synchronized public movements just don't pair well with traffic, crowded streets and concrete. Yet there many Angelenos were on Saturday afternoon, twisting to perky instructions from "So You Think You Can Dance" judge Mary Murphy on a broad, inviting chunk of grass that now resides between Grand Avenue and Hill Street.

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia joined U.S. Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel) at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas Tuesday to announce grants to three California organizations for The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a celebration of the Pennsylvania-born poet known for his passion for the rugged central California coast, and of Tor House, Jeffers' family home in Carmel. Through the Big Read poetry initiative, a joint effort of the NEA and the Poetry Foundation to celebrate historic poetry sites in the United States, the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation will receive $15,000 to support a monthlong, bilingual celebration of Jeffers throughout Monterey County, expected to launch in October during Tor House's annual fall festival; the National Steinbeck Center will receive $17,000 to support an exhibition of Jeffers' poetry and photographs of the writer, and the University of California, Santa Cruz will receive $5,000 to host a symposium on the poet's work.

Lawndale will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a Youth Day Parade May 13. Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block will be Grand Marshal for the parade, the first in a series of events celebrating the city's incorporation in 1959. Parade participants will assemble at 8:30 a.m. at Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Firmona Avenue, and the parade will begin at 10 a.m. Shirley Rudolph, parks and recreation commissioner, announced a new parade route for this year: east on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, north on Hawthorne Boulevard, and west on 147th Street to the Civic Center, 14701 S. Burin Ave. Participants will include Marisol Garcia, this year's poster child for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; 4-year-old skateboarding wiz Danny Krammer, and Sheriff's Sgt. Aaron Williams and Deputy Warren Asmus, who provide safety and gang prevention programs in the Lawndale School District.

The Latin American Civic Assn. is inviting the community to El Cariso Regional Park on Monday for the reopening of its Sylmar Headstart center, which was closed after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. "We will celebrate the return not only of our Sylmar site, but the ability to serve the needs of the children and their families in the area," said Irene Tovar, executive director of LACA.

"General Hospital," ABC's top-rated daytime soap opera which a few years ago faced cancellation, celebrated its 6,000th episode Tuesday. Some 40 cast members, past and present, were among the 100 people who filled the show's hospital set at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood where the celebration took place.