‘Rent’: The California Youth Conservatory Theater is performing Rent at the Lyceum Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Based loosely on the opera, La Bohemme, Rent chronicles a year in the lives of a handful of friends struggling with life, love, art, homelessness and AIDS in 1990’s New York. Jonathan Larson’s rock-opera includes such favorites as “Seasons of Love,” “One Song Glory,” “Light My Candle” and “No Day But Today.” Directed by Shaun Evans and Karole Foreman. The performance is the full, unedited version, featuring both amateur and professional performers. Rent contains strong language and mature content. Tickets start at $24, and student discounts are available. The Lyceum Theatre is located at 79 Horton Plaza Way at the Horton Plaza in Downtown. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.lyceumevents.org or call 619-544-1000.

Big Bay Boom: The Port of San Diego presents Big Bay Boom, a fireworks extravaganza, at the north-bay area of San Diego Bay at 9 p.m. The show lasts approximately 16 minutes. The best places to view the fireworks are Harbor Island, Shelter Island, the Embarcadero, Seaport Village and Coronado Landings. The celebration always brings a large crowd. Organizers advise to arrive at your designated location early. To beat traffic, the San Diego Trolley is an easy and cheap way to travel to the bay. For San Diego Trolley routes, visit www.sdmts.com/Trolley/Trolley.asp. For more information on Big Bay Boom, visit www.thebigbay.com or call 619-686-6200.

Fashion Whore: The Ruby Room presents Fashion Whore at 8 p.m. Fashion Whore is a monthly fashion catwalk and dance party. Maystar will host, and DJ Groundfloor will spin. The event includes a fashion show by Sophistafunk Life Velsen Clothing Streetgarb. Because the night falls on our nation’s birthday, the event will feature $2 drinks ’til 11 p.m. This month’s theme is disco. The event costs $5. The Ruby Room is located at 1271 University Ave. in Hilcrest. For more information, e-mail clubfashionwhorevip@gmail.com or call 619-299-7372.

Hot Flash: The Flame hosts Host Flash from 5 to 9 p.m. Hot Flash is an intergenerational dance for women mid 30s and beyond who love to dance to a little hip hop, a little doo wop and everything in between, including music from the ’70s to today. If you love seasoned lesbians or you feel you are too mature for the typical bar crowd, Hot Flash is for you. The Flame is located at 3780 Park Blvd. in Hillcrest. For more information, call 619-295-4163 or visit www.hotflashdances.com.

Heroes Against Hunger: Clair de Lune hosts Heroes Against Hunger, a concert, at 6 p.m. Heroes Against Hunger is a concert series sponsored by the San Diego Food Bank and features music groups Allison Lonsdale and the Eben Brooks Band. This concert is free, but donations of money and non-perishable food are encouraged. A portion of music merchandise sales will be donated to the nonprofit. Clair de Lune is located at 2906 University Ave. in North Park. For more information, visit www.sandiegofoodbank.org or e-mail tuqute@pacbell.net.

‘Milk’: The First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego will screen Milk at 2 p.m. Milk is about the life of gay icon Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. A discussion will follow the screening. The First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego is located at 4190 Front St. in Hillcrest. For more information, visit www.firstuusandiego.org or e-mail jcksdca@gmail.com.

Spreckles Organ performance: California theater organist David Wickerham will perform 4th of July favorites at the Spreckles Organ Pavillion at 7:30 p.m. Wickerham will perform Sousa’s “Liberty Bell March,” Joplin’s “Original Rags,” “Musica Americana” – a tribute to American folk music along with patriotic – favorites and a John Williams extravaganza. The Spreckles Organ Pavillion is located at 1549 El Prado in Balboa Park. For more information, call 619-702-8138 or visit www.balboapark.org.

Richard Avedon: The San Diego Museum of Art is exhibiting the work of photographer Richard Avedon from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit, “Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power,” focuses on Avedon’s photographs of 1960s and ’70s intelligentsia, politicians and powerbrokers, such as Malcolm X and Rev. Billy Graham and characters such as George Wallace of Alabama. Other photos document the Chicago Seven, the Saigon Mission Council, or George Lincoln Rockwell, along with some of his American Nazi Party followers circa 1963. Celebrity standards like gray-haired Charlie Chaplin grinning while holding his right and left forefingers at his temples to mimic a smiling devil and waif-like Bob Dylan standing on a rain-soaked Central Park sidewalk make their requisite appearance. Tickets are $10. Senior and student discounts are available. Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power is on display Tuesdays through Sundays to Sept. 6. The San Diego Museum of Art is located at 1450 El Prado in Balboa Park. For more information, call 619-232-7931 or visit www.sdmart.org.

‘A Senseless Death’: The San Diego Public Library’s Central Library is screening A Senseless Death at 6:30 p.m. A Senseless Death is a new film by Raymonde Provencher and tells the story of “green card soldiers,” young, non-citizen soldiers and Marines, who were among the first casualties of the invasion of Iraq, and their struggle to achieve the “American Dream.” A discussion with local activist Fernando Suarez Del Solar will follow. The screening will take place in the third-floor auditorium of the Central Library. The San Diego Public Library’s Central Library is located at 820 E St. in Downtown. For more information, call 619-236-5816 or visit www.sandiego.gov/public-library/.

‘Jeffrey’: The Looking Glass Theatre will perform Jeffrey at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego at 8 p.m. Paul Rudnick’s romantic comedy Jeffrey tells the story of a young gay man in Manhattan named Jeffrey, who decides that pursuing celibacy is all the rage, that is until he is introduced to the man of his dreams, Steve, a hunky, charming, HIV-positive man. Will Jeffrey give love or sex a second chance or have his 5,000 sexual experiences eroded his desire for both? The play is directed by Geoffrey A Cox. All proceeds from the event will go to San Diego Pride. Tickets are $15. The First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego is located at 4190 Front St. in Hillcrest. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.lgt-sandiego.org or call 619-295-3770.