LITTLE BOY BLUES: Blues guitar master B....

LITTLE BOY BLUES: Blues guitar master B. B. King called him “one of the greatest harmonica players of our time.” He has his own band: the Bluesbusters. And he isn’t even in high school yet. . . . Meet 10-year-old Brody Buster, the hottest harmonica player at B. B. King’s Blues Club at Universal CityWalk. The musical prodigy has only been playing since 7, when mom Janet Buster handed him one of her harmonicas at home in Kansas. “In a couple of months, he could do everything I could do,” she recalled. . . . See today’s Valley Life! Page 3.

POPPY POWER: It’s that time of year again. But this year may be the best yet. . . . Recent rains have created a particularly vibrant bloom of orange poppies--a seasonal event that will draw thousands to the fourth annual Poppy Festival in Lancaster this weekend. Helicopter rides will even offer an aerial view. See Valley Life!, Page 32.

OKLAHOMA-BOUND: Urban search-and-rescue workers left the Valley on Thursday on a mercy mission to help dig for victims still buried in the rubble beneath that city’s bombed federal building (B4). . . . The 56-man team of Los Angeles County firefighters grabbed their gear, above, in Pacoima and were driven to March Air Force Base in Riverside County, where they caught a C-141 transport plane to Oklahoma City. . . . Although the team’s departure was more than 24 hours after the bomb blast, one official said rescuers have “about a 72-hour window of time to save more lives.”

LAKE VIEW: Castaic Lake is gearing up for a different kind of race this weekend. . . . Best known for its water sports, the recreation area will host about 1,000 mountain bikers in the official state championship series. Organizers of the Bud Light California Mountain Bike Challenge, which kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday, chose the site to bring mountain biking closer to the public. “Bikers usually disappear in the mountains for two hours and then reappear,” spokesman Michael Epstein said. “This race, you can see the entire course.”

TONIGHT: “Eclipsed,” Patricia Burke Brogan’s drama about unwed mothers forced to work in Ireland’s church-run laundry facilities, begins at 8 at the Gene Bua Theatre, 3435 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank. Tickets are $12. Information: (818) 380-7135.