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Julian Mountain BrewFest 2026

In 7 days · Aug 22 1485 Hollow Glen Road, Julian, CA …

You know the friend who insists the drive is part of it — who makes you take the long way because the view matters. This is the day they get to be smug, and you will not have an argument. Up at elevation the air smells like pine and pie, and something is different about how a beer lands, whether that is real or the altitude talking. The lineup reads like a road trip through the county's small producers: Burning Beard, Calico Cidery, Julian Beer Co., San Diego Brewing Company, Smoking Cannon, plus wine and cider makers who never bothered opening a coastal tasting room. The Sun Valley String Band plays while you wander between pours. Entry buys a commemorative cup and eight tastings — enough to find a new favorite without losing the plot. Hollow Glen Road, an afternoon in August, grown folks only. Go up for the beer. Come back down arguing about which cidery was actually best.

El Segundo Art Walk 2026 — Summer Edition

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El Segundo Art Walk 2026 — Summer Edition

In 7 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.

Street Food Cinema: Shrek + Drone Show — Griffith Park at The Autry

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Street Food Cinema: Shrek + Drone Show — Griffith Park at The Autry

In 7 days · Aug 22 The Autry Museum, 4700 Western Her…

You’ve seen Shrek. You’ve quoted Shrek. You’ve sent the “Somebody once told me” meme to at least three people this year. But you haven’t watched Shrek on a massive screen in Griffith Park surrounded by food trucks while a drone show lights up the sky afterward. Street Food Cinema’s August 22 screening at The Autry Museum grounds is one of those nights LA does better than anywhere: outdoors, warm, a bar on site, food vendors lining the path, and a movie that hits differently when a hundred strangers are laughing at the same Donkey line. Doors open at 5:30pm. The movie rolls at 8pm. Then the drones. The drone show is exclusive to this screening — you won’t get this combo anywhere else in the city this summer. General admission is $38, car entry $44. Dogs are welcome. Parking is free. This is a date night. This is a friend group night. This is a bring-a-blanket-and-claim-your-spot-early night. The Autry’s Griffith Park location means you’re eating tacos while the Hollywood sign watches.

KTOWN Night Market 2026 — Los Angeles Koreatown

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KTOWN Night Market 2026 — Los Angeles Koreatown

In 7 days · Aug 22 701 S Catalina St, Los Angeles, CA…

Two nights a year, the parking lot behind Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools becomes the closest thing Los Angeles has to walking through a night market in Seoul. KTOWN Night Market packs over 100 food and merchandise vendors into a single city block in Koreatown, and the result is the kind of controlled chaos that makes you forget you are standing in Mid-Wilshire. Korean fried chicken, bingsoo piled high enough to photograph, fusion tacos that should not work but do, and a merchandise row where every other booth is selling something you did not know you needed. Live performances from local and international artists fill the gaps between eating. The crowd is the thing — Korean-American families, college students from USC and UCLA, food bloggers with cameras bigger than their plates, and people who drove from the Valley because someone texted them you HAVE to come. General admission is six dollars online presale and covers both nights. Kids 3 and under free. This is the event that the Korean-American community in LA built for itself, and the rest of the city showed up because the food was too good to ignore.

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates

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Los Angeles Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates

In 7 days · Aug 22 $25+ Dodger Stadium, 1000 Vin Scully Av…

Bring the kids for this one. A weekend afternoon against the young, scrappy Pittsburgh Pirates is exactly the kind of relaxed, family-friendly Dodger Stadium outing that turns children into lifelong fans: sunshine, a Dodger Dog, the wave rolling around the pavilion, and stars in the making on both sides of the diamond. Saturday, August 22, 2026, Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles. Get there early so the little ones can watch batting practice from down low, snag a giveaway if there is one, and soak up a laid-back day of baseball in the Southern California sun. Even a matchup that looks quiet on paper feels special in a ballpark this beautiful. This is the easy, joyful, all-ages day at the ballpark every LA summer deserves.

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.

Marina Movie Nights 2026 — Burton Chace Park, Marina del Rey

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Marina Movie Nights 2026 — Burton Chace Park, Marina del Rey

Every Saturday · Next Aug 22 Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao …

Saturday night, the marina goes quiet in the best way. The projector hums to life at Burton Chace Park and suddenly two hundred strangers on blankets become an audience — boats bobbing behind the screen, salt air mixing with kettle corn, the sky doing that violet thing it only does at the water’s edge. Marina Movie Nights has been running this ritual for years and it never gets old because the formula is bulletproof: free movies, waterfront lawn, first-come-first-served. The lineup hits every lane — SpongeBob for the little ones, Sonic for the tweens, Scott Pilgrim for the adults who pretend they’re too cool but know every line. Moonrise Kingdom and Hocus Pocus round out the season. But the real draw isn’t the film. It’s the blanket-to-blanket community of people who chose the harbor over their couch. No tickets required. RSVP recommended for weather updates. Movies start at 8pm every Saturday, late August through late September. Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Free admission. Bring a blanket or low-back chair.

Topanga Vintage Market — Woodland Hills Aug

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Topanga Vintage Market — Woodland Hills Aug

Every 4th Sunday · Next Aug 23 $5-$10 admission Pierce College, Mason Avenue Parki…

Fourteen years is how long one buyer has been hunting one specific Bakelite something, and he will be back this month working the rows in order, because the entire hobby runs on the belief that somebody, somewhere, has the thing. Once a month the Pierce College lot fills with about a hundred and seventy dealers and the people who hunt them. Mid-century furniture. Denim with exactly the right wear. Costume jewelry, oddball signage, instruments somebody loved and somebody else is about to. The early crowd arrives at seven for first pick; the later crowd comes to talk to the dealers, which is its own reason to go. Parking is free, cash and Venmo both work, and after a few months the buyers half-know each other. Fourth Sunday of the month, out in Woodland Hills. The thing you cannot find online is exactly what the fourth Sunday is for.

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Bike the Bay 2026 — San Diego

In 8 days · Aug 23 Embarcadero Marina Park South, 200…

Once a year the Coronado Bridge closes to cars and opens to bicycles, and the view from the top — the whole bay laid out beneath you, downtown glinting across the water — rearranges how you think about a city you already live in. You are not allowed up there any other day of the year. It is not a race. Twenty-five basically flat miles through Coronado, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, and National City before looping home, with a capped field that fills up with families on cruisers, weekend warriors in lycra, kids on training wheels with a parent jogging alongside, and the occasional tandem that makes everybody smile. Rest stops, mechanics, and sweep vehicles mean nobody gets stranded out there. The County Bicycle Coalition runs it, and the proceeds go back into bike infrastructure. Register early and it costs less. Bring the friend who always says they want to start cycling. This is the ride that converts them.

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SoCal Cycle Swap Meet — Long Beach (Monthly)

Monthly · Next Aug 23 Long Beach Veterans Stadium, 5000 …

Every fourth Sunday, the parking lot at Long Beach Veterans Stadium fills with motorcycle parts, vintage bikes, custom builds, and the kind of people who greet each other by engine displacement. The SoCal Cycle Swap Meet is an all-brands motorcycle swap meet — the largest monthly bike market in Southern California. Vendors spread across hundreds of stalls with everything from OEM replacement parts to hand-fabricated one-offs. Customs, cafe racers, bobbers, baggers, dirt bikes, vintage Japanese steel — if it has two wheels and a story, it's here. 7 AM to 1 PM, rain or shine. $15 admission, free parking. Long Beach Veterans Stadium, 5000 Lew Davis St, Long Beach, CA 90808. This is the swap meet you text your riding buddy about. Not because they need parts — because they need an excuse to ride somewhere on Sunday morning.

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Temecula Valley Vintage Market

Monthly · Next Aug 23 Old Town Temecula, 28690 Front St,…

Old Town Temecula hosts its monthly vintage and makers market along Front Street -- local dealers bringing curated vintage clothing, jewelry, ceramics, plants, and handmade goods to the brick-lined blocks that are already one of the better walking streets in Inland Southern California. The May 23, 2026 edition opens at 9:00 AM and runs through the afternoon. The wine country crowd mixes with the vintage hunters; the combination makes for a morning that reliably turns into an afternoon. Front Street in Old Town Temecula is a genuine discovery walk even before the market sets up -- historic storefronts, wine tasting rooms, and local restaurants make it easy to turn a market visit into a full day. Admission is free to browse. Bring cash for the dealers who do not run Square -- vintage markets at this scale typically have a mix of card and cash-only vendors. The market is located at 28690 Front Street, Temecula, CA 92590. Parking is available along Front Street and in surrounding lots. Old Town is also walkable from several downtown Temecula hotels.

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Los Angeles Kids' Book Festival

In 8 days · Aug 23 West Hollywood Park, 647 N San Vic…

There is a face a child makes when they meet the person who wrote their favorite book — a small, visible recalculation as they work out that stories are made by actual humans, and that they are also an actual human. Everything else about the day exists to produce that face. Nearly a hundred children's authors and illustrators fill a park in West Hollywood with live storytimes, drawing demonstrations, and signing lines that wrap back around themselves. Kids watch a picture appear on paper in real time. They ask the questions adults are too self-conscious to ask. They leave clutching a signed book they will still own in twenty years, wherever they end up living. It is loud, joyful, and completely free, which is the genuinely radical part. Bring the kid who reads under the covers with a flashlight. Then bring the one who has not found their book yet. This is where that changes.

Dana Point Classic Car Show 2026 — Del Prado Avenue

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Dana Point Classic Car Show 2026 — Del Prado Avenue

In 8 days · Aug 23 Del Prado Avenue, Dana Point, CA 9…

Your dad spent Saturdays under a hood. Or your uncle did. Or you did, with a creeper and a socket set and a radio playing something that stopped being popular before the car was ever paid off. You do not need it explained. You know what a '57 Bel Air sounds like turning over after forty years of sitting, and you know what a street sounds like in the half-second afterward, when everybody hears it and stops talking. Del Prado fills with three hundred and twenty-five of them: hot rods, muscle, vintage trucks, restorations that cost somebody three years of weekends and one difficult conversation at home. Registration sold out, which tells you this is the show the builders chose. Food trucks down the block, a DJ, kids behind steering wheels older than their parents. The Lantern District in Dana Point, a Sunday morning into the afternoon, free to walk. No car required. You may not leave that way.

Chicano Heritage Festival 2026 — Santa Ana

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Chicano Heritage Festival 2026 — Santa Ana

In 8 days · Aug 23 3000 W. Edinger Ave., Santa Ana, C…

Chrome catches the afternoon sun exactly the way it did when your tío polished his '64 Impala in the driveway before you were born. That is not nostalgia. That is muscle memory, and a whole neighborhood has it at once. The lowriders line the boulevard and Centennial Park fills with a gathering that does not explain itself to anybody: live performances pulling from decades of Chicano musical tradition, corridos bleeding into hip-hop, brass sections you feel in your sternum. The car cruise and show draws some of the cleanest builds in Orange County, each one a rolling autobiography somebody spent a decade writing. Community art and crafts fill the grass, kids run a zone built just for them, and the food needs no menu because you already know what you are getting and it tastes the way it should. Free, family, put on by the city. You do not attend this festival. You recognize it.

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Craig Campbell at Wilson Creek Winery

In 8 days · Aug 23 $45+ Wilson Creek Winery, 35960 Rancho …

On a warm Temecula evening, with the vineyard rows going gold behind the stage and a glass of the winery's famous almond champagne in hand, there are few nicer places in Southern California to catch a country show than the lawn at Wilson Creek. Nashville's Craig Campbell, the honky-tonk everyman behind Family Man and Fish, brings his warm, boot-scooting brand of country to wine country for an intimate outdoor night. Sunday, August 23, 2026, at Wilson Creek Winery in Temecula. Grab a bottle, spread a blanket or pull up a chair, and let the sun set over the vines while a genuinely great voice fills the valley. Bring a date or the whole crew. This is a low-key, gorgeous local night out that the Temecula Valley does better than anywhere. Come sip and sway.

Hiroshima - Rhythm on the Vine at South Coast Winery

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Hiroshima - Rhythm on the Vine at South Coast Winery

In 8 days · Aug 23 $45+ South Coast Winery Resort & Spa, 3…

Nobody expects a Japanese koto to sit inside a funk groove and sound like it was always meant to be there -- but that has been Hiroshima's whole quiet miracle for almost fifty years. The band took the thirteen-string koto, wrapped it in jazz-fusion horns and a soul backbeat, and earned a Grammy nomination bridging two worlds that were not supposed to meet. Live, it is hypnotic; you go in curious and leave a convert. South Coast puts them on the lawn on an August night in Temecula wine country, the kind of setting that suits music this warm and this strange. Come for the novelty of it and stay because the groove will not let you go. Go in convinced you have heard it all. You have not heard this.

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Taste of Encinitas 2026

In 10 days · Aug 25 818 S Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas, CA…

Every August, the stretch of South Coast Highway 101 in downtown Encinitas transforms into an open-air tasting room. The Taste of Encinitas invites you to stroll from restaurant to restaurant, sampling signature bites from the cafes, bakeries, seafood houses, and taco spots that make this beach town one of the best food corridors in North County San Diego. This is not a festival with a stage and a headline act. This is a neighborhood walking its own Main Street, tasting what the people who live here already know is there. The restaurants that participate are not pop-ups. They are the places with regulars who come every Tuesday. The event runs from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM, which means you are eating as the sun drops behind the Pacific a few blocks west. The light in Encinitas at that hour is the kind of thing people post about without thinking about it. Bring comfortable shoes — you will walk more than you expect, and every block has a reason to stop. Tickets are available through the Encinitas 101 Main Street Association. If you have eaten at one Encinitas restaurant but never walked the whole strip in one night, this is the invitation.

Down Back Tuesdays — FGC Tournament at Arrow Lodge Brewing

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Down Back Tuesdays — FGC Tournament at Arrow Lodge Brewing

Every other Tuesday · Next Aug 25 950 E 3rd St #1A, Los Angeles, CA …

The fighting game community does not care how long you have been playing. It cares whether you play. Down Back Tuesdays runs on that principle — a biweekly bracket at a brewery in the Arts District where Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and Skullgirls share floor space with people who came to actually compete. This is not a watch party. This is the version of esports where the person you just lost to can immediately explain what went wrong and then challenge you to a rematch. Amateur brackets run alongside the main event — first-timers are expected, not tolerated. The venue is Arrow Lodge Brewing in downtown Los Angeles's Arts District, which means the skill ceiling and the beer selection are both higher than you would expect from a Tuesday night. Doors open at 6pm for casuals. Tournament brackets start at 7pm. Entry is five dollars per game plus a fifteen dollar venue fee at the door. Runs every other Tuesday through the year. 950 E 3rd St, Los Angeles.

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