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El Segundo Art Walk 2026 — Summer Edition

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El Segundo Art Walk 2026 — Summer Edition

In 6 days · Aug 22 Downtown El Segundo, 124 Main St, …

A brewery loading dock becomes a gallery for one night, and the person handing you a print is the person who painted it at their kitchen table last Tuesday. No gallerist in between, no statement on the wall, nobody to explain the work except whoever made it. More than a dozen businesses across downtown and Smoky Hollow open their doors for the evening and fill with Los Angeles artists: paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, clothing and jewelry made by hand, the kind of pieces you only end up owning because you got the story first. Food trucks along the street, live music drifting block to block, and a comedy and barbecue festival running alongside it this year with Dave Williamson bringing Ian Edwards, Deb Digiovani, and Chris Franjola. Downtown El Segundo, afternoon into evening, free to walk. Park early, move slowly, and go with the friend who has bare walls and keeps saying they should fix that.

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K-PLAY! FEST Orange County 2026

In 6 days · Aug 22 – Aug 24 40.00 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA 928…

One pass opens two doors, and most people do not realize it until they are already inside — the K-pop floor and the anime convention are running in the same building on the same days, and your wristband works in both. So the day splits strangely and wonderfully: a dance competition, then an artist alley, then a K-beauty booth, then somebody's cosplay contest, then back across the hall for a K-drama screening. Touring acts play the main stage both days. There are merch drops, signed-album lines, fan photo areas, and Q&As where somebody always asks the question the whole room was too nervous to ask. General admission covers the festival floor; the concert stage is its own ticket. It takes over the Anaheim Convention Center on Katella, walkable from the transit center, with Disneyland close enough to stretch the whole thing into a weekend. Send it to the friend who has been saving an outfit for exactly this and has nowhere to wear it.

Levitt VIBE Pasadena 2026 — Free Summer Concerts at Memorial Park

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Levitt VIBE Pasadena 2026 — Free Summer Concerts at Memorial Park

Every other Saturday · Next Aug 22 Free Memorial Park, 85 E Holly St, Pasa…

A band shell sitting dark for years is its own kind of grief, a structure built for a sound it stopped making, in the middle of a park everybody still walks through. The Gold Shell is playing again. The arched stage at the center of Memorial Park held summer concerts for generations of Pasadena before it went quiet, and this is the season it goes back into regular use: a run of free outdoor shows across the summer, genres rotating every few weeks through pop, rock, jazz, blues and Latin, so the audience assembles from the whole neighborhood instead of one slice of it. Blankets, low chairs, kids running the perimeter, no reserved section and no dress code. Holly Street in Old Pasadena, free, walkable from downtown and a short walk from the Gold Line. Text it to whoever you used to sit in a park with. That is the entire ask.

San Diego FC vs Colorado Rapids at Snapdragon Stadium

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San Diego FC vs Colorado Rapids at Snapdragon Stadium

In 6 days · Aug 22 9449 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108

In late August the standings stop being abstract. The teams that are making the playoffs know who they are, and the teams on the edge know that every point is now existential. San Diego FC host the Colorado Rapids at Snapdragon Stadium on August 22, right as the Western Conference race sharpens. Colorado is a consistent performer in the West - tactically organized, defensively solid, capable of shutting down home sides on the road. San Diego FC, at Snapdragon in August, have every advantage: a familiar pitch, the home crowd, the support of a city that has put itself fully behind this club. What makes Snapdragon unusual among MLS venues is the intimacy of the lower deck - 35,000 feels smaller because of how the bowl wraps the field, and the noise from the home support arrives as something tangible rather than ambient. August 22 in Mission Valley is a late-summer match in the middle of a playoff race. Those are the ones that matter most. Snapdragon Stadium.

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born at midnite at Soda Bar

In 6 days · Aug 22 $15-$18 Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San …

One song on every road-trip mix ever burned sounds exactly like this: wistful, guitar-forward, homesick for a summer that may never have actually happened to you. That is the register born at midnite lives in. It started as a bedroom recording project and turned into a real band, an LA trio whose whole catalog carries that ache, the kind of night where you turn up not knowing a single song and walk out humming one. Soda Bar holds three hundred, which puts the room in that narrow band where you can see the drummer's face change. The crowd splits between people who already follow the right Bandcamp pages and regulars who come for whatever the venue books, which is to say a room full of people who had other options on a Saturday and chose this instead. El Cajon Boulevard, a Saturday night, cheap at the door. Bring the friend you always end up in the car with.

Catbite with Cheekface at The Casbah — San Diego

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Catbite with Cheekface at The Casbah — San Diego

In 6 days · Aug 22 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 9…

Somewhere between the second verse and the third beer, the room stops being a room and starts being a pact. Two hundred people in a space that holds them like a secret, horns cutting through sweat and dim light, the kind of night you'll describe wrong to everyone who wasn't there because the words don't carry what the air did. Catbite brings their brass-laced ska-punk to The Casbah on Friday, August 22, 2026 — the Philadelphia quartet whose debut made Pitchfork take notice and whose live show made everyone else shut up and dance. Cheekface opens, which means you're getting art-punk absurdism before the skanking starts, and if you've never heard someone make you laugh and mosh in the same four-minute window, you haven't been to the right shows. Doors at 8:30 PM. The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101. 21+ with valid ID. Tickets from $7. This is the show your friends will pretend they were at.

Kingdom LA: The Rave — Catch One Los Angeles

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Kingdom LA: The Rave — Catch One Los Angeles

In 6 days · Aug 22 – Aug 23 $30-60 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA …

Six rooms. Six sound systems. Six chances to lose your friends and find better ones. Kingdom LA: The Rave takes over Catch One on August 22 with six distinct music worlds — each with its own sound system, its own lighting design, its own gravitational pull. This is not a club night with a DJ and a drink special. This is a multi-room experience where the venue itself transforms into something between a theme park and a fever dream. Massive LED stages, high-powered lasers, and visuals that make the walls disappear. Costumes are encouraged. Travelers from every world are welcome to dress as their favorite retro adventure hero, princess, villain, creature, or character from childhood games — and the crowd takes that invitation seriously. The line between performer and audience dissolves somewhere around the third room. Catch One at 4067 W Pico Blvd has been an LA nightlife institution for decades. Kingdom LA fills it differently — not just with sound, but with the feeling that you walked into someone else's imagination and they let you stay. 9 PM to 2 AM. 21+.

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WITCH at Pappy & Harriet's

In 6 days · Aug 22 – Aug 23 $34-$39 Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Pala…

Psych-rock does not get to rest in a glass case as long as J Mascis is still plugging in — not vintage, not revival, just the songs that get written when the songs get written. So WITCH (Mascis, Asa Brebner, Kyle Spence, and Dave Sweetapple) has been doing that since 2005, the heavy psych blues catalog that any Pappy & Harriet's audience already knows the lyrics to. Saturday August 22 in Pioneertown. The roadhouse in the high desert that has hosted Paul McCartney and Robert Plant in the same calendar as it hosts whoever drove out from LA last Sunday. Tickets thirty-four to thirty-nine. Doors at eight-thirty, music at nine-thirty. The drive is two and a half hours from LA. People do it. Outdoor stage if the weather holds. The crowd is the people who came for the bands and the people who came for Pioneertown and there is no daylight between them.

Leimert Park Jazz Festival - Sunday Jazz at the World Stage (August 2026)

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Leimert Park Jazz Festival - Sunday Jazz at the World Stage (August 2026)

Every Sunday · Next Aug 23 The World Stage, 4321 Degnan Blvd,…

The drum circle forms on the sidewalk before anyone plays a note inside -- the neighborhood arrives before the audience does, and that order tells you everything about this room. Billy Higgins opened The World Stage in 1989, and it has anchored the Leimert Park jazz community ever since: fourth Sunday of every month, free or pay-what-you-can, the living room the whole neighborhood is welcome in. August 23 is the last Sunday session before the main Leimert Park Jazz Festival on the 29th -- 3 to 5pm, emerging artists and working musicians cycling through the stage that's hosted everyone serious in LA jazz for three decades. Bring the friend who assumes the good stuff is somewhere else. It's a warm-up for the main festival but it is not a preview -- it's the real thing, every fourth Sunday, whether the cameras show up or not. The World Stage, Leimert Park Village.

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

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Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

In 7 days · Aug 23 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222…

Half the room came for the man from the movies and leaves having fallen for the piano player. Something delights in watching a face you associate with dinosaurs and eccentric monologues sit down at a jazz piano and turn out to genuinely, unfussily swing. Jeff Goldblum has been playing standards on quiet Monday nights for decades, and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra is a real band, loose and warm and funnier than it has any right to be. He'll tell a rambling story, take a request, tease the crowd, then drop into a ballad that shuts the whole lawn up. It's the rare night where the jazz obsessive who owns the vinyl and the person who just wanted to see a celebrity end up elbow to elbow, both grinning like idiots. He always ends up chatting with the front row between numbers. Bring someone who swears they don't like jazz and watch them quietly cave over the course of one warm, slightly ridiculous evening on the downtown bayfront.

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Gamescom 2026

In 9 days · Aug 25 – Aug 30 Koelnmesse, Messeplatz 1, 50679 Co…

Gamescom 2026 opens August 25-30 in Cologne, Germany -- the world's largest gaming trade show and the biggest consumer games event in Europe. Opening Night Live on August 25 streams globally with major first-looks and announcements. Public days follow August 26-30 with hands-on demos, developer reveals, and the kind of scale that makes E3's peak years look modest. Why go: Gamescom is where publishers bring their biggest titles for global reveals. Q4 2026 and early 2027 games get their final showcases here before the holiday season launches. The show floor spans Koelnmesse's full complex at Messeplatz 1 in Cologne -- multiple halls, each dedicated to different segments of the industry and fan experience. For SoCal fans who cannot make the trip to Germany, Opening Night Live streams free online on August 25 and is reliably one of the most-watched gaming broadcasts of the year. For those attending in person, travel tips: book Cologne accommodation at least six months in advance, register early for tickets through gamescom.global, and prioritize the publisher halls for hands-on demos in the first two public days before lines build.

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MAMAMOO 2026 US TOUR - Los Angeles

In 9 days · Aug 25 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

You have had to explain, more than once, that this is not a group with a concept — it is four singers who could each carry a stage alone and chose not to. Solar, Moonbyul, Wheein, Hwasa. Twelve years, a stretch of solo detours, and now all four of them in the same country as you for a full-group American arena run. The setlist refuses to sit still: R&B into pop into trot into hip-hop, staged theatrically enough that it reads as production rather than concert. And the fan work around a night like this is its own event — slogan drops, light stick color coordination, banner projects organized weeks out by people who have never met in person. Check the threads before you go, or you will be the only one holding nothing. Downtown Los Angeles, an arena room, floor pit to upper bowl. Send it to the MooMoo who has been waiting since the solo era started. They already know.

Leimert Park Music Series — Aug Showcase

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Leimert Park Music Series — Aug Showcase

Monthly · Next Aug 25 $15-$20 The World Stage, 4321 Degnan Blvd,…

Eight rising Black artists on one stage, moving between jazz and soul and hip-hop and spoken word and gospel and the spaces between -- and a room built so they can show up for each other across every genre and every stage of a career. That's what the Leimert Park Music Series does, monthly, at The World Stage, the same room that anchors the Sunday jazz tradition. August 25 is the sixth showcase; the first five filled the room. Tickets stay intentionally cheap so the audience matches the artists -- the people who'd actually come if word reached them through the right group chat. Bring the friend who's always telling you about someone you haven't heard yet. Doors before the music; the room holds about a hundred and the history is on the walls. Leimert Park Village has been the cultural center of Black LA since the late twentieth century, and the Music Series exists because someone refused to let the centerpoint move.

San Diego Jazz Collective Jam Session at Duck Foot

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San Diego Jazz Collective Jam Session at Duck Foot

Every other Tuesday · Next Aug 25 Duck Foot Brewing, 8920 Kenamar Dr…

No setlist, no headliner, just whoever shows up with a horn and the nerve to sit in. Twice a month the San Diego Jazz Collective takes over a corner of Duck Foot's Miramar taproom and runs an open jam that swings between seasoned players trading fours and a nervous student taking their first-ever solo in front of a room of strangers who are all quietly rooting for them to land it. This is where the city's jazz actually lives, not in a concert hall with a dress code, but in a brewery on a Tuesday, a cheap pour in hand, everyone leaning in the moment somebody catches fire. The regulars know which nights the ringers come out to play. It's the kind of low, warm room where you accidentally fall in love with a genre you always assumed was for your parents. Bring the friend who's never heard improvisation happen live and up close. The jam runs on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings at Duck Foot Brewing in Miramar.

W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) at Teragram Ballroom

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W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) at Teragram Ballroom

In 9 days · Aug 25 Teragram Ballroom, 1234 W 7th St, …

For half a century the tapes sat in Zambian record shops and almost nowhere else, which is how owning the vinyl turned into a secret handshake among the few crate-diggers who knew what they were holding. They were the biggest band in the country in the seventies, the beating heart of a scene called Zamrock, and then history simply swallowed them. Reissue campaigns dragged them back into the light. The surviving members put it back together. So the thing that felt structurally impossible — standing in a room while that fuzzed-out guitar actually happens in front of you — is now a late-August night in downtown Los Angeles. Teragram is small enough that there is no bad spot in it, which is exactly how a resurrection ought to feel. The people who reclaim lost history one record at a time already have this circled. Go find out what they have been talking about.

ZAYN: The Konnakol Tour — Pechanga Arena San Diego

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ZAYN: The Konnakol Tour — Pechanga Arena San Diego

In 9 days · Aug 25 3500 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego,…

You knew the voice before you knew the name. It came through the back of your mom's car, or through a sibling's bedroom wall, and it registered less as pop than as a feeling you did not yet have words for. The solo years have been a slow, deliberate shedding. Every record quieter, stranger and more honest than whatever the industry had planned for him. The newest borrows its title from a South Indian vocal percussion tradition, rhythmic syllables spoken with the body before any instrument gets involved, and it is the most personal thing he has made. It went to the top of the charts anyway, not on nostalgia but because the people who grew up with that voice grew up too. This is his first run headlining arenas alone, no openers padding the runtime, just him and a band and a production built around the record's architecture. Pechanga Arena in San Diego, a summer weeknight. Take whoever was in the car with you back then.

Epcot International Food and Wine Festival 2026 -- Walt Disney World

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Epcot International Food and Wine Festival 2026 -- Walt Disney World

In 11 days · Aug 27 – Nov 21 Epcot, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

Late August through mid-November, Epcot stops being a place you take children and turns its World Showcase into a global food market for adults — eighty-plus kiosks representing countries that do not share borders but do share this pavilion. The atmosphere is unmistakably grown-up. Wine, craft beer, international street food, live concerts in the Eat to the Beat series, and cooking demonstrations by culinary professionals fill the hours between the park's permanent attractions. The World Showcase lagoon path becomes a global food walk - French crepes alongside Canadian craft beer alongside Japanese sushi alongside Brazilian cheese bread. The scale is enormous but the pacing is deliberately slow; this is wandering, tasting, settling in at a lakeside table and watching the October sky come down over the water. If you have any affinity for food, international cuisines, or Disney, it lands: the festival is included with standard EPCOT park admission and the food kiosks are paid separately in small, affordable sampling portions. For non-Disney regulars, Epcot's single loop layout makes the festival more accessible than most of the park, since one path covers nearly all the festival content. For Disney regulars, the August-through-November window is one of the best times to visit - lower crowds than peak summer, full festival atmosphere. A few things veterans know: weekday mornings are least crowded for the kiosk lines. The Eat to the Beat concert series, included with admission, runs multiple times daily at the America Gardens Theatre, so arrive 30 minutes early. The annual festival passport lets you stamp each global marketplace kiosk - casual visitors ignore it and obsessives complete it on day one. Party for the Senses premium dinner events sell separately and book out quickly, so reserve early if interested. Disney Transportation runs from most on-property resorts directly to EPCOT; the parking lot is paid. More than two million people participate each year, most of them not because they are Disney fans but because the festival delivers one specific feeling: the world's food culture on the same block, walkable in an afternoon. The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival runs from late August through mid-November at Walt Disney World.

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LAcon V / Worldcon 2026

In 11 days · Aug 27 – Aug 31 From $125 Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim…

The conversation that starts at a panel and is still going two hours later in a hotel lobby - between a first-timer and someone who has come every year since the 1970s - is the part of Worldcon nobody photographs, and it is the reason people build their August around it. If science fiction has genuinely shaped how you think, this is the room where the people who built the genre gather to decide what it becomes next. This is the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, founded in 1939, and it is where the Hugo Awards - the genre's highest honor - are presented. Five days of programming dense enough to require a spreadsheet: panels with authors whose books shaped how you see the world, an Art Show of original science fiction and fantasy illustration available for purchase, a Film Festival, and the Masquerade, one of the world's most ambitious costume competitions, where attendees spend months building a creation for a single stage walk. But the truest texture lives in the hallways, and the community here is multigenerational in a way almost no other genre event is. Every attending member votes on the Hugo ballot, which gives you a reason to read widely before you even arrive. If you have opinions about where the genre is going and want to be in the room where those conversations happen, this is that room - not a pop-culture spectacle but a literary gathering with the scale to match. This is worth every dollar for the reader for whom the genre is a frame for understanding the world, not casual entertainment. A few practical notes. First-time attendees qualify for a $200 membership rate instead of the standard $250 adult price - register explicitly as a first-timer at lacon.org to save fifty dollars. The Hugo ceremony is a formal evening event; bring something nicer than a convention T-shirt. Programming is community-generated: attendees propose and vote on panels, so the schedule reflects genuine fan priorities rather than a corporate team. Book the Hilton Anaheim or Anaheim Marriott to stay in the convention hotels and maximize hallway time. The Art Show sells original work, so budget separately for it. Worldcon returns to Los Angeles for the first time since 2006, at a moment when science fiction's reach - through streaming, gaming, and AI - has never been broader while the literary community that seeded all of it has never been more visible. The writers in those panel rooms are the ones shaping how space travel, artificial intelligence, and social change will feel to readers a generation from now. That conversation happens August 27-31 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

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