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Eivor

Nov 21, 2026 from $30 Teragram Ballroom, 1234 W 7th St, …

The Faroe Islands hold about fifty thousand people and produce weather that gets into the music. What arrives on stage is a voice doing two incompatible things at once - old Nordic folk singing, the kind passed down in a language most of the room does not speak, run through electronics that would not be out of place in a club. It should not cohere. It does, and the moment it lands is usually a song with no translation offered, where the crowd stops trying to follow the words and just takes the sound. Expect long held notes, a lot of low end, and a stillness in the room that is unusual for a Saturday. Worth knowing for anyone who has only heard the recordings: live, she sings a good deal of it unaccompanied, and the venue is small enough that you hear the room around the voice. Downtown Los Angeles, late November, all ages.

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Encinitas Holiday Street Fair 2026

Nov 22, 2026 South Coast Highway 101, Encinitas…

The Sunday before Thanksgiving, six blocks of Historic Highway 101 in Encinitas close to traffic and fill with the unofficial kickoff to North County's holiday season. The Encinitas Holiday Street Fair has run for nearly forty years: hundreds of booths of handmade crafts, art, antiques, and ethnic imports, two stages of live music, street food and sweets, a beer-and-wine garden, and a family fun zone — all of it two blocks from the ocean with the coast breeze rolling through. It's a stroll-and-shop kind of day, the one where locals knock out holiday gifts from real makers instead of a mall, then grab a churro and catch a band. Admission and parking are free; come early for the good vendor finds and street parking. The Encinitas Holiday Street Fair runs Sunday, November 22, 2026, along South Coast Highway 101 in downtown Encinitas. Free admission. By dusk the string lights come on over Highway 101 and the whole town feels like it finally exhaled into the holidays.

LEGOLAND Holidays 2026 — Carlsbad Christmas Celebration

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LEGOLAND Holidays 2026 — Carlsbad Christmas Celebration

Nov 22, 2026 LEGOLAND California, 1 Legoland Dr…

The Christmas tree is fifteen feet tall and made entirely of LEGO bricks, and your child is looking at it the way you used to look at Christmas trees before you learned what things cost. That look is what you drove to Carlsbad for. Everything else — the manufactured snow, the holiday shows, the hot cocoa, the thousands of twinkling lights draped over rides designed for people under four feet tall — is the infrastructure that delivers it. LEGOLAND Holidays runs on select days from late November through early January, and it earns its repeat visitors not through spectacle but through specificity. LEGO artists spend weeks constructing holiday scenes that stop adults in their tracks — builds so detailed that grown engineers count bricks while their kids have already moved on to the next one. The park's kid-scale rides get holiday overlays. Santa's Christmas Magic Fireworks on select December nights are the kind of calendar-planning event that families text each other about in September. The move: weeknight visits in late November and early December are practically empty. Full decorations, full programming, zero lines. You get the same fireworks, the same snow effect, and the same look on your kid's face with none of the weekend crush. Select days late November 2026 through early January 2027. LEGOLAND California, 1 Legoland Dr, Carlsbad, CA 92008. Holiday programming included with park admission.

Ontario Reign vs Henderson Silver Knights

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Ontario Reign vs Henderson Silver Knights

Nov 22, 2026 $18+ Toyota Arena, 4000 Ontario Center …

A Sunday matinee is the version of this sport nobody warns you is the best one. Early puck drop, a building full of kids in oversized jerseys, and you are home before dinner with your ears still ringing. Henderson comes up out of the Vegas system fast and well-coached and carrying real ambitions of their own, so the rematch has heat in it. What surprises every first-timer is the pace — two development pipelines trading chances at a speed television flattens out completely. The Reign skate the quick, up-tempo way the Kings organization teaches, and the between-periods promotions are unapologetically ridiculous in a way that wins over people who came reluctantly. An afternoon at Toyota Arena in Ontario, with seats close to the ice for less than you would guess. Start the tradition this year. Kids remember the first one for a very long time.

Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn 2026 — Riverside

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Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn 2026 — Riverside

Nov 22, 2026 The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, 3649 …

The first time you see it, you stop walking. Ten million lights wrapped around a century-old hotel in downtown Riverside, and the building itself looks like it is breathing — towers and turrets and Spanish arches outlined in white and gold against a cold November sky. Your phone cannot capture it. Nothing can. The scale is absurd and the beauty is sincere and you stand there with strangers who are all doing the same thing you are doing, which is nothing at all except looking up. The Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn has run every holiday season since 1992. The Grand Switch-On Ceremony on November 22 draws tens of thousands to watch the building come alive for the first time — a concert, a dance performance, and then the moment when every bulb fires at once and the crowd makes a sound that is not quite a cheer and not quite a gasp. After opening night, the lights stay on through January 6, and the surrounding blocks of downtown Riverside fill with food vendors, carolers, horse-drawn carriages, and a walk-through experience that takes longer than you planned because you keep stopping. Riverside is an hour from San Diego, an hour from LA, and forty minutes from the IE core. This is not a drive you will regret. November 22, 2026 through January 6, 2027. Switch-On Ceremony at 5 PM on November 22. The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, 3649 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA 92501.

Enchanted Forest of Light at Descanso Gardens

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Enchanted Forest of Light at Descanso Gardens

Every day · Next Nov 22 $30+ Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Dr…

Ancient oaks lit from below, flowers blooming in colors that do not exist in daylight, and a mile of garden path that stops feeling like decoration somewhere around the third installation. Descanso after dark in December turns into something close to a dream, which is a strange thing to say about a botanical garden and is nonetheless what people say when they come back out. It is unhurried and genuinely artful, closer to living sculpture than to holiday lights, and the laser show at the end resolves into what looks like falling snow. Timed entry keeps the paths from ever feeling crowded, which is the quiet reason this works where so many light displays do not. Come early in the season before the best nights are gone, wear a real coat, and let one of the prettiest hours of the year unfold one glowing garden room at a time. Bring the family, bring a date, bring somebody who has been indoors too long. Some of it will be too pretty to photograph. Let that be fine.

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Sing Yerevan Sing

Nov 22, 2026 Peacock Theater, 777 Chick Hearn C…

Diaspora works by handing things down slightly incomplete. You know the melody and half the words, you know the dance from weddings, and you are aware there is a version of all of it that exists whole somewhere you have probably never been. An evening built around Armenian song is one of the few places that gap closes in public, and Los Angeles holds the largest Armenian community outside Armenia itself - Glendale, East Hollywood, Montebello - which means a room like this is not a cultural showcase for outsiders, it is a family reunion that sold tickets. Expect several generations, expect people who came from Yerevan and people who have never seen it singing the same line, and expect the crying to start earlier than you planned. Bring the grandparent who will pretend not to be moved. Programmes like this usually mix folk repertoire with estrada, the Soviet-era pop that half the room grew up on and the other half has only heard at home. Sunday the 22nd of November, seven o'clock.

Ebenezer Scrooge's BIG San Diego Christmas Show

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Ebenezer Scrooge's BIG San Diego Christmas Show

Every day · Next Nov 24 $30+ Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, 1363…

Everyone knows the bones of A Christmas Carol (the ghosts, the chains, the redemption before dawn), which is exactly why the Old Globe's comic riff on it lands so well: a fast, funny, warmhearted reinvention set in a snow-dusted San Diego, where a small cast plays every role in a race to save Scrooge before Christmas morning. It is Dickens with the sincerity intact and the self-seriousness stripped out, the kind of holiday theater that works whether you cry at the ending or come for the jokes. Ebenezer Scrooge's BIG San Diego Christmas Show runs November 20 through December 27, 2026, in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre at the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in Balboa Park. Bring the family, pair it with the park's holiday lights, and start a new December tradition. Warm, funny, and over before the kids get restless.

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Beauty School Dropout

Nov 24, 2026 from $25 Teragram Ballroom, 1234 W 7th St, …

Somewhere around the second chorus you will realise the entire room is made of people who were fourteen in a very specific year and have decided, tonight, to be that age again on purpose. It is not nostalgia exactly - the band is young and the songs are new - it is more that a certain kind of guitar tone gives permission. Three guys from Los Angeles who got their break opening for bands their own fans' older siblings loved, playing a room that holds six hundred and change on a Tuesday in late November. The Tuesday is the point. Weeknight shows at this size draw the people who actually listen rather than the people who bought tickets because it was Saturday, and the difference is audible from the floor - everybody knows the words, including the deep ones. All ages, which at this venue means the front row is teenagers and the bar is their parents pretending not to enjoy it. Seventh Street, downtown Los Angeles.

LA Rams vs. Green Bay Packers — NFL's First Thanksgiving Eve Game

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LA Rams vs. Green Bay Packers — NFL's First Thanksgiving Eve Game

Nov 25, 2026 SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Ing…

The NFL has never played on Thanksgiving Eve before. On November 25, 2026, that changes — and the stage is SoFi Stadium, the Rams hosting the Packers in a primetime game that streams exclusively on Netflix. The league could have picked any matchup to make history. They picked this one. There is something about a Wednesday night football game during the week nobody works. The whole city is already in holiday mode. Traffic is lighter. People are flying in. Extended family is arriving. And now, instead of the dead air between landing and the turkey, there is a game — the kind of game you build the evening around. The Rams and Packers have history that goes back decades, and this particular installment comes in Week 12 when both teams are fighting for playoff positioning. Kickoff is 5:00 PM Pacific. The Netflix broadcast means you can watch it from your aunt's couch in another state, but being in the building for a first-of-its-kind NFL event is the kind of thing you tell people about for years. SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Inglewood, CA 90301. Find tickets on Ticketmaster — this one sells itself.

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Rhondavous: The Ravesgiving

Nov 25, 2026 Catch One, 4067 Pico Blvd, Los Ang…

Thanksgiving week has a hole in it that nobody admits to. The meal ends early, the relatives go to bed at nine, and you are twenty-six years old standing in your childhood kitchen with a full night ahead of you and nothing to do with it. Everyone you went to high school with is also in town and also bored. A warehouse-scale room on Pico has been solving that deliberately. Catch One has been one of the most important dance floors in Los Angeles for decades, and a Thanksgiving-week party there runs on a very specific crowd: people home for the holiday, people who never left, and regulars who treat the week as a reunion they did not have to organize. House and techno, doors at six, early enough that you can genuinely do both. Going early is the move. The first two hours are when the room is loose and you can hear the person next to you. November 25 at Catch One, 4067 Pico Boulevard. If someone you love is flying home that week and dreading the downtime, this is the text to send.

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The Residents | Fully Seated

Nov 25, 2026 Ventura Music Hall, 1888 E Thompso…

Anonymity used to be a career-ending choice and this band made it the entire point, spending five decades on stage with their faces covered while releasing records that treat pop music as an anthropological specimen. Nobody agrees on who is in it. That is deliberate and it has held. What gets lost in the eyeball costume is that the work itself is genuinely unsettling — song cycles about American violence, obsessive tribute albums, an approach to storytelling closer to outsider art than to rock. Seated shows suit the current material, which is more narrative than noise. The audience is one of the strangest and most pleasant in music: people who have followed this since vinyl, art students, and a scattering of the merely curious who will leave changed. Music at 8:00 PM in Ventura on East Thompson Boulevard. It falls the night before Thanksgiving, which is either the worst or the best possible preparation depending on your family.

Dub Club presents Sister Nancy — Echoplex, Los Angeles

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Dub Club presents Sister Nancy — Echoplex, Los Angeles

Nov 25 – Nov 26, 2026 1822 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, C…

Somewhere around the third bass drop on a Wednesday night at the Echoplex, you stop wondering why you came out on a school night. Dub Club has been doing this since 2000 — turning a room in Echo Park into the closest thing LA has to Kingston after dark. The selectors, the sound system, the crowd that moves like they've been moving together for years. On November 26, the night before Thanksgiving, they bring Sister Nancy — the woman behind Bam Bam, one of the most sampled songs in history, the track that soundtracks every dancehall you have ever stepped into and half the hip-hop you grew up on. She is performing live with the Soul Syndicate band. That is not a DJ set. That is the original voice in a room built for exactly this kind of ceremony. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is either spent on a couch or spent somewhere that makes you grateful you left it. Dub Club chose for you. 21 and over. Doors at 9 PM. The Echoplex, 1822 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles.

O'side Turkey Trot 2026 — Oceanside Thanksgiving 5K & Kids Run

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O'side Turkey Trot 2026 — Oceanside Thanksgiving 5K & Kids Run

Nov 26, 2026 Oceanside Civic Center Plaza, 300 …

Runner's World named it one of the top trots in the country. The LA Times agreed. But nobody in Oceanside calls it that — they just call it the thing they do before breakfast on Thanksgiving, the one where the whole family shows up whether or not they actually run. The O'side Turkey Trot starts from Civic Center Plaza and heads through downtown Oceanside while most of the city is still dark. There's a 5K for the runners and a Kids Run for the ones who sprint the first hundred yards and walk the rest holding a parent's hand. The costumes range from coordinated family outfits to solo turkey suits held together with duct tape and determination. The post-race scene — stretched out across the plaza with the ocean visible at the end of the street — is Thanksgiving's opening act. The crowd lingers because there's nowhere better to be at 8 AM on a holiday than surrounded by neighbors who just did something mildly ridiculous together in the North County dawn. Thursday, November 26, 2026. 6:00 AM. Oceanside Civic Center Plaza, 300 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside 92054. sandiegorunningco.com.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2026 -- New York, NY

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2026 -- New York, NY

Nov 26, 2026 77th Street & Central Park West, N…

From 77th Street down to Herald Square on Thanksgiving morning, two and a half million people line the route. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been doing this since 1924. The parade experience on the ground is unlike watching it on television. The balloons — some 16 giant character balloons representing beloved cultural icons from Snoopy to SpongeBob — tower five to six stories above the crowd and move with an unpredictable, living quality that cameras cannot capture. Broadway performers open each show segment. Marching bands from across the country perform along the 2.5-mile route. The floats are hand-built artworks. The energy of a crowd that lines up before dawn, wrapped in coats and coffee cups, for something they have seen every year since childhood — is genuinely moving in a way that resists irony. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is worth attending if you have ever watched it on television and wondered what it would be like to be there. The answer: colder, louder, and more emotionally resonant than you expect. This is one of the rare public events that functions identically for a six-year-old and a sixty-year-old. If you are a New Yorker who has always meant to go and never has: this is the year. Viewing tips: The best spots are along Central Park West from 72nd to 77th Street — arrive before 7 AM to claim a spot against the barriers. The parade steps off at 8:30 AM and passes any given point by 10 AM. Bring hand warmers, thermos coffee, and folding chairs. Avoid Herald Square — it is the most crowded and worst vantage point despite being the broadcast location. Midtown hotel prices spike 300-500 percent the week of Thanksgiving. Book months in advance or stay in Brooklyn. The parade is free, public, and unreservable. The transaction is not logistical. It is the decision to show up and be present at something that will look the same and feel different every single time.

Rady Children's Invitational 2026 — NCAA Basketball at USD

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Rady Children's Invitational 2026 — NCAA Basketball at USD

Every day · Next Nov 26 Jenny Craig Pavilion, University o…

The week of Thanksgiving in San Diego smells like the ocean even when you are indoors. And inside the Jenny Craig Pavilion on the University of San Diego campus, four teams that have no business being in a gym this small are about to play basketball that matters. Texas. UCLA. Georgetown. Saint Mary's. The Rady Children's Invitational brings teams with decades of NCAA tournament heritage to a venue intimate enough that you can hear the sneakers. This is not a neutral-site afterthought — it is a legitimate early-season test where every team is trying to prove something before conference play starts. UCLA fans in San Diego do not need an excuse to show up. Texas fans in town for Thanksgiving now have a reason to stay an extra day. Two days. Four games. Championship and third-place games on FOX. For every ticket sold, five dollars goes to Rady Children's Hospital San Diego — the hospital that keeps the city's kids healthy. November 26-27, 2026. Jenny Craig Pavilion, University of San Diego. Two-day passes from $95. Games on FS1 and FOX.

Holiday in the Park 2026 — Six Flags Magic Mountain

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Holiday in the Park 2026 — Six Flags Magic Mountain

Nov 26, 2026 26101 Magic Mountain Pkwy, Valenci…

Something happens to the Santa Clarita Valley in late November. The thrill capital of the world trades screams for wonder — not all of them, but enough. Six Flags Magic Mountain drapes itself in millions of lights, and suddenly the park that exists to terrify you becomes the park that makes you feel twelve years old again. Holiday in the Park runs from November 26 through January 3, transforming the park into a holiday spectacle. The coasters still run — some of them in the dark now, which changes them completely — but the real experience is walking through themed areas where every corner has been redesigned for the season. The tree lighting show is the anchor: dancers, singers, and an enormous Christmas tree that makes everyone in the crowd reach for their phone. The park operates Friday through Monday during the holiday season, with extended hours as December deepens. That means Magic Mountain is open on weekday evenings when almost nothing else in the valley is — Monday night at Magic Mountain during the holidays is one of the quieter, more magical experiences you can have in SoCal. Holiday in the Park is included with regular park admission. The park is at 26101 Magic Mountain Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355. If you haven't been since summer, this is a different place. The desert cold, the lights reflecting off the metal of X2 and Twisted Colossus, the smell of hot chocolate mixing with funnel cake — it's a SoCal tradition that doesn't get the credit it deserves.

Father Joe's Villages Thanksgiving Day 5K Turkey Trot 2026 — Balboa Park

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Father Joe's Villages Thanksgiving Day 5K Turkey Trot 2026 — Balboa Park

Nov 27, 2026 Balboa Park, 1549 El Prado, San Di…

The alarm goes off at 6 AM on Thanksgiving and your entire family groans. Three hours later everyone is wearing a turkey hat, your cousin PR'd without telling anyone she was trying, and you've already earned the pie. Father Joe's Villages Turkey Trot sends thousands of runners through Balboa Park every Thanksgiving morning. It starts at 7:15 AM — early enough that you're home before the oven timer goes off — and what comes after the finish line is almost better than the run: a post-race festival with awards, a costume contest where the turkey suits get genuinely competitive, live music, and a beer garden that opens at 9 AM because it's a holiday and nobody is judging. Every registration helps Father Joe's Villages serve over a million meals to San Diegans experiencing homelessness. The run is a party. The reason for the run is not. Thursday, November 27, 2026. 7:15 AM. Balboa Park, 1549 El Prado, San Diego 92101. Register at my.neighbor.org.

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