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Just Like Heaven Festival 2026

In 7 days · Aug 22 Brookside at Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose …

Some of these songs got into you before you had any say in the matter — a car radio, an older sibling's bedroom door, a movie you were too young to be watching. You did not choose them. They chose the shape of you. That is the whole trick of this bill. It books artists whose catalogs crossed over from music into memory, decades and genres apart, and somehow they hold together in a way nobody can explain on paper. Brookside is the right ground for it: open field, mountains at the edge of your vision, Pasadena heat carrying sound the way outdoor sound is supposed to travel. And the crowd is half the show. Everyone there wants to be there, which changes the air completely. Come early enough to settle before the afternoon sets. Blanket, sunscreen, shoes you can stand in all day. Text this to whoever you would have called the first time one of these songs wrecked you.

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.

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.

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

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Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

In 8 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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MAMAMOO 2026 US TOUR - Los Angeles

In 10 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.

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LAcon V / Worldcon 2026

In 12 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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My Chemical Romance: Black Parade 20th

Aug 30, 2026 From $65 100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

For a certain generation this record was the soundtrack to becoming a person - the theatrical, operatic sound that shaped an entire decade, tracks like 'Welcome to the Black Parade,' 'Famous Last Words,' and 'I Don't Love You' that stayed anthems long after the kids who memorized them grew up. Now the band returns to perform The Black Parade in full, marking the album's 20th anniversary, at an open-air stadium built for exactly this kind of night. This is the definitive version of a full-album anniversary show, one of the most important rock records of the 2000s played start to finish. Petco Park holds over 40,000 for stadium shows, with clear sightlines from the field and lower bowl; doors open at 5:00 PM. The stadium is easily reached from the 5 Freeway, the Gaslamp Trolley Station is a short walk away, and parking in the East Village and Gaslamp Quarter is widely available. My Chemical Romance: Black Parade 20th, at Petco Park in San Diego.

Telluride Film Festival 2026 — Telluride, CO

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Telluride Film Festival 2026 — Telluride, CO

Sep 3 – Sep 7, 2026 Town of Telluride, CO 81435

The town of Telluride has 2,500 residents and sits at 8,750 feet in the San Juan Mountains. Over Labor Day weekend, it receives the world premieres of at least two films that will go on to compete for Best Picture. The festival's geography is the first thing that sets it apart. Telluride is a box canyon — red rock walls on three sides, a waterfall visible from the main street — and venues are scattered across town, connected by a free gondola. You walk from a screening in an outdoor tent to a panel in a Victorian opera house to dinner at a cafe where the director you just watched is getting a beer at the next table. The scale enforces intimacy. This is not a festival where industry credentials separate you from the audience. The multi-day pass is the credential. Telluride is worth it if you value first contact with films that matter. The programming committee watches films with no announcements until arrival day, maintains a genuine secret program, and builds a schedule around what they believe rather than what distributors push. If you are the kind of film person who tracks awards conversations, reads critics circle ballots, or builds a December watch list in September: you will see things here that define that conversation. First contact with the eventual Best Picture winner has happened here more often than at any other festival in the world. Multi-day passes are the only ticket available ($1,200-2,000+ for the full weekend depending on type). There is no single-screening ticket option. Book lodging in Telluride six or more months in advance — the town has extremely limited inventory and pass holders have priority access. Fly into Grand Junction (two-hour drive) or Montrose (70 minutes) — Telluride's regional airport is small and expensive. High altitude affects alcohol tolerance significantly more than sea level. The free gondola runs until midnight and connects Telluride to Mountain Village, where additional lodging is available. Telluride is the film festival for people who care about cinema, not celebrity. The mountain setting enforces exactly the kind of sustained attention that great films require — and that daily life rarely affords. Every screening benefits from an audience that made significant logistical effort to be there. It is the most honest celebration of film as art currently operating in America. Labor Day weekend in the San Juan Mountains.

Cinecon 62 Classic Film Festival 2026 — Los Angeles

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Cinecon 62 Classic Film Festival 2026 — Los Angeles

Every day · Next Sep 3 Landmark Nuart Theatre, 11272 Sant…

For sixty-two years, cinephiles have gathered over Labor Day Weekend in a darkened theater to watch things that don't exist on any streaming platform and probably never will. Cinecon 62 is the longest-running classic film festival on the West Coast — five days of rare 35mm screenings, nitrate treasures, and the kind of material that archivists have spent decades preserving. This is where film historians, collectors, and obsessives sit in the same rows, arguing about whether Buster Keaton was funnier than Chaplin and what a two-strip Technicolor print looks like when it hasn't been restored yet. September 3-7, 2026 at the Landmark Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles. Full festival pass: $349 early bird (before August 1), $399 after. Day passes: $85. Student day passes: $65 with valid ID at the door. Host hotel: Holiday Inn Express West Los Angeles, right next door to the Nuart. This is not a nostalgia trip. This is where the people who keep cinema alive spend their Labor Day.

Maestro of the Movies: A Tribute to John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl

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Maestro of the Movies: A Tribute to John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl

Sep 4, 2026 $54+ Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Av…

Four notes. That is all it takes — four notes and a grown adult is quietly wrecked in a grocery store aisle. Now put those four notes in front of a full orchestra, under an open sky, with seventeen thousand people getting the same goosebumps at the same instant. David Newman conducts the LA Phil through the scores that raised most of us — Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones, Jaws, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park — with the film clips running on the screen above the players. Williams himself does not conduct in person anymore. It turns out the music never needed him standing there; it does this entirely on its own. Three nights at the Bowl, picnic boxes and wine and the long ritual of finding your seat as the sun drops behind the hills. The Sunday show is historically the easiest ticket. Bring the person who has somehow never been to the Bowl. Watch their face on the first downbeat.

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Long Beach Comic Expo 2026

Sep 5, 2026 From $20 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

Somewhere along the way the big conventions stopped being about comics and started being about movie trailers. This is the one that didn't drift. Two days built around the actual thing — the pencilers and writers and colorists and letterers who came precisely because the people in this room came for the work, not the IP announcement. That focus changes the whole texture of it. The dealer room is back issues and original art and independent publishers you won't find at the mega-shows. The artist alley is close enough to reach without a strategy. The panels are about craft — how the page gets made — instead of a studio sizzle reel. If the bigger cons priced you out or wore you down, this is the one that kept faith with the reason you started reading in the first place. Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E Ocean Blvd — October 17–18, 2026, from $20 at longbeachcomicexpo.com. It's right on the water with the Pike a short walk for lunch. Pick your anchors and let the floor fill in the rest.

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W.A.S.P. - 1984 to Headless

Sep 10, 2026 $54+ The Magnolia, 210 E Main St, El Ca…

Heavy metal has always been theater, and few bands ever staged it harder than the ones who turned Sunset Strip menace into something halfway between a horror movie and a church service. Four decades on, W.A.S.P. is walking its faithful back through the whole arc — from the raw 1984 debut that got them banned in half of America to the newer, darker material — one long communion of leather, volume, and the particular joy of a crowd that never once apologized for what it loves. KK's Priest, led by a Judas Priest founding guitarist, opens the mass. This is not a heritage act phoning it in; it is a scene that raised itself on the fringes showing up for its own. The Magnolia gets loud and gloriously unrepentant. Thursday, September 10, 2026, doors 7pm, show 8pm, El Cajon. If you know, you already know — bring the battle vest and find your people.

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Sessions Surf Festival 2026 — Encinitas

Every day · Next Sep 12 Seaside Reef & La Paloma Theatre, …

A week where surfing, music, and art collide in the town that was built for all three. Sessions Surf Festival takes over Encinitas from September 12-19, 2026 — surf film screenings at the La Paloma Theatre, a community surf contest at Seaside Reef, art exhibits in local galleries, and headlining music acts including Osees, Unwritten Law, and Bully playing stages scattered across the coastline. Formerly the Solento Surf Festival, Sessions has grown into the kind of week-long celebration that defines what Encinitas actually is: a surf town that takes its culture seriously without taking itself too seriously. Live music runs most nights. The surf contest draws local rippers who ride this break every morning. The film festival screens the kind of indie surf documentaries that never make it to streaming. Multiple venues across Encinitas — Seaside Reef, La Paloma Theatre, and local galleries. Check sessionssurffestival.com for the full schedule and tickets. If Encinitas is your town, you already know. If it's not, this is the week it becomes your town.

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My Hero Academia in Concert

Sep 15, 2026 Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 60…

You already know what Plus Ultra sounds like. You've heard it through earbuds on the bus, through laptop speakers at 2 AM, through the thin walls of a dorm room where someone was rewatching the tournament arc for the fourth time. You know the swell that hits when Deku breaks through. You know the strings that play when All Might stands up one last time. You've never heard it performed by fifteen musicians standing in a room with you. My Hero Academia in Concert brings Yuki Hayashi's full score to the Segerstrom Center stage — a 15-piece live band performing alongside projected sequences from all eight seasons of the anime. The moments you've replayed a hundred times get rebuilt from scratch in front of you: the instruments that carry the emotion, the breath between notes that streaming audio compresses away, the physical presence of a cello section pulling the weight of a scene you already know the ending to. And knowing doesn't help. You'll feel it all over again. This is not a screening with background music. This is the score as its own experience — the architecture underneath every scene you loved, isolated and amplified, played by people who are watching your face while they play. Monday, September 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Tickets available through the Segerstrom Center box office and Ticketmaster.

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Fantastic Fest 2026 — Austin, TX

Sep 17 – Sep 24, 2026 Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 1120…

Winning Best Film here means your movie is genuinely, get-under-your-skin frightening -- because the whole point of this place is the horror, science fiction, and genre film that would never survive a studio committee. For eight days the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin turns into the strangest week of the year in a city that specializes in strange. The Drafthouse means dinner and drinks arrive at your seat during the film. The selection spans international premieres and US debuts under a curatorial ethos that prizes the weird over the safe and refuses to be rigid about genre -- the umbrella covers anything that warrants the word. Secret screenings are the festival's signature: you sit down not knowing what you are about to watch, and the audience often does not learn the title until moments before it starts. Between films there are trivia nights, drag shows, karaoke, live bands, and stunts that have included burying audience members alive and staging sideshow performances. If your opinions about horror and cult cinema run ahead of the mainstream, this is your event -- and this is the 21st edition, a scrappy Austin experiment that became the definitive American destination for genre film, the place where the most adventurous versions of these genres get their first real audience. Films that premiere here regularly go on to win awards and pull strong box office months later. Sitting in that auditorium surrounded by people who drove in from five states for this one week is the feeling that makes the badge worth every dollar. Send this to the friend who has watched everything and is still hunting for something that scares them. Fantastic Fest runs September 17 to 24. Fan Badges cover the full eight days; Second-Half Badges run September 21 to 24 and include parties and Highball access at the venue adjacent to the Drafthouse; Industry Badges cover daily press and industry screenings. The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar runs multiple simultaneous screenings across several auditoriums, which gives you real choices when your schedule collides with itself. Badge categories sell out early and secret-screening seats fill fastest, so arrive early if you want one. Check fantasticfest.com for current availability.

The Midnight: Time Machines Tour — SOMA San Diego

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The Midnight: Time Machines Tour — SOMA San Diego

Sep 18, 2026 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

You know the feeling at two in the morning when an old synth line comes on and the highway briefly looks like a movie you starred in twenty years ago. That is the entire catalog, and live it is worse, or better, depending on how much of yourself you were planning to hold together tonight. Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan write like the soundtrack to a John Hughes film that never got made: neon-drenched synths, saxophone breaks with no business being that devastating, and a treatment of nostalgia as a superpower rather than an affliction. The newer record leans harder into the sci-fi end of it. But the show is where the thing reveals itself, because this is not an audience watching a band. It is a room of people who each independently worked out that synthwave is a feeling, and then discovered they were not alone in it. SOMA in San Diego, all ages, a concrete room where the sound finds you personally. Bring whoever used to drive around with you at night with nowhere to be.

L.A. Times Food Bowl Night Market 2026 — Paramount Pictures Studios

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L.A. Times Food Bowl Night Market 2026 — Paramount Pictures Studios

Sep 22, 2026 5555 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA …

The gate opens and you're walking onto a backlot that made movies for a hundred years, except tonight the set is real and the stars are the people behind the pass-through windows. The seventh annual L.A. Times Food Bowl Night Market takes over Paramount Pictures Studios on Monday, September 22, 2026 — one ticket unlocking unlimited tastings and drinks from over 120 of Los Angeles' most obsessive restaurants, all of them cooking like they know every other kitchen in the room is watching. This is the night the city's food scene stops being a map and becomes a single room. The chefs you've read about are three feet away, plating something they've been testing for weeks. The ones you haven't read about are the reason you'll leave rethinking everything. Fiesta Friday Night Market runs 8 PM to 11 PM, 21+ only. Paramount Pictures Studios, 5555 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038. Tickets at lafoodbowl.com. The dress code is whatever you wear when you're about to eat more than you planned.

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