BEST BETS Saturday 7/28

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Festival

The Oxnard Salsa Festival will take over Plaza Park this weekend. Amateur salsa makers will put their recipes up against other home-brewed concoctions in the festival’s Salsa Challenge contest. Besides all the salsa sampling, the eighth annual event will offer live music, salsa dancing, a car show, vendors and children’s activities.

* Oxnard Salsa Festival, Plaza Park, 5th and B streets, Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Free. 247-0197.