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DeVotchKa at Belly Up — Solana Beach

Sep 30, 2026 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA…

A sousaphone, a theremin and a bouzouki walk onto a stage on Cedros Avenue, and somehow what comes out sounds like a traveling circus performing in a cathedral while the world ends outside. Nick Urata sings in a tenor that carries the weight of Eastern European folk, Latin bolero, and punk rock all at once, and the band plays instruments that most rock acts have never heard of — sousaphone, theremin, bouzouki — as if they were born with them in their hands. The result is a sound that belongs to no genre and every continent, the kind of thing that makes you realize how small the word indie is when applied to a band whose influences stretch from a Balkan wedding reception to a Mexican cinema. At the intimate North County venue on Cedros, the sound wraps around you like a blanket sewn from every country you have never visited, and you leave knowing that the word eclectic was invented for exactly this. Tuesday, September 30, at 8 PM.

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Cradle of Filth: Majestic in Death II — The Observatory North Park

Sep 29, 2026 2891 University Ave, San Diego, CA…

Thirty years ago, Dani Filth screamed over a pipe organ on Dusk... and Her Embrace and built a cathedral inside extreme metal that nobody else has been able to replicate since. The Majestic in Death II tour celebrates that anniversary with the kind of theatrical darkness that only a band with three decades of gothic spectacle can deliver. At The Observatory North Park, where the ceiling is low enough that the fog machines transform the room into a crypt, the production hits differently than it does in a festival field — you can feel the bass in your sternum and see the stage paint on Filth's face from the fourth row. Black Satellite, Worm, and Moonspell open, making this a bill designed for the person who keeps a battle jacket in the back of their closet and has been waiting for an excuse to pull it out. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6 PM on Monday, September 29, at 2891 University Avenue in North Park.

Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA — Los Angeles (Summer 2026)

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Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA — Los Angeles (Summer 2026)

Sep 26, 2026 Level Hotel, 888 S Olive St, Downt…

Headphones are the trick. The city keeps making its noise below you — a siren, a bus, somebody's argument on the sidewalk — and none of it touches the film, because the sound is going straight into your ears while the skyline stands behind the screen doing nothing but existing. Four floors up on a hotel terrace you get an Adirondack chair or a loveseat and a bar that takes the job seriously. The programming leans cult and themed rather than new-release: retro double features, sing-alongs, and the films that are genuinely better outdoors than they ever were indoors. Downtown towers overhead instead of a ceiling. Summer programming runs through the season on South Olive Street, and this location sells out faster than the coastal one, so book the date you actually want. Go with the person who talks through movies. Up here it somehow stops mattering.

Little Italy Summer Film Festival 2026 — Amici Park, San Diego

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Little Italy Summer Film Festival 2026 — Amici Park, San Diego

Sep 26, 2026 Free Amici Park, W Date St & State St, …

The marine layer usually arrives around the third act, which is when everyone reaches for the jacket they were told to bring and nobody leaves anyway. Amici Park is a small amphitheatre wedged between restaurants, so the air smells like garlic and jasmine while an Italian film runs with English subtitles and the whole park spends two hours living somewhere else. Cinema Little Italy has been doing this quietly for years, without fanfare, on a patch of grass most of the city walks straight past. The programming rotates week to week — neorealism one Saturday, comedy the next, always something you would never have found on your own. People bring their own blankets and a bottle of something red. Free, outdoors, summer evenings in the heart of the neighborhood. Bring the person who will argue with you about the ending the entire walk home.

Lucha Libre Weekend at MOLAA — Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach

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Lucha Libre Weekend at MOLAA — Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach

Sep 26, 2026 628 Alamitos Ave, Long Beach, CA 9…

The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach is celebrating 30 years the only way that makes sense: by clearing the gallery floor and putting a wrestling ring in the middle of it. Lucha Libre Weekend runs September 25 through 27, starting Friday evening with a book launch for Luchadores Versus Everything, and building to Saturday night's main event where masked luchadores — El Cumbias, Kensei, Destiny, Rayo Star, Super Astro Jr., and more — clash under museum lighting that was never designed for a flying crossbody. This is not ironic. Lucha libre is a performing art that happens to involve a turnbuckle, and MOLAA has always understood that Latin American art does not stop at the frame. The colorful masks, the theatrical entrances, the crowd that screams the way a gallery crowd never does — it is all part of the same cultural tradition. Badges available at molaa.org. Individual event tickets go on sale September 7 if spaces remain.

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Ghostbusters In Concert

Sep 24, 2026 $45+ Cerritos Center for the Performing…

Who you gonna call? Everybody, apparently, because there's a special magic to watching a movie you love on a giant screen while a live orchestra plays every note of the score in real time. Ghostbusters In Concert pairs the 1984 comedy classic with a full ensemble performing Elmer Bernstein's music and Ray Parker Jr.'s inescapable theme, and the effect is pure joy: the jokes land, the proton packs whir, and the whole room sings the chorus without a shred of irony. Thursday, September 24, 2026, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Bring the kids who've never seen it and the adults who've seen it fifty times. It's family-friendly, gorgeously performed, and a genuinely fresh way to experience a film you thought you knew by heart. Come get slimed, the classy way.

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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.

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.

Cinespia Summer Screenings 2026 — Hollywood Forever Cemetery

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Cinespia Summer Screenings 2026 — Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Sep 19, 2026 Ticketed Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 S…

Watching a film properly was never about a dark room and assigned seats. It is a lawn at dusk, a blanket, a drink poured while there is still light, and a few thousand people who all loved the same movie at the same age. The crowd is the reason to go. Scenes you know by heart land differently when thousands of people meet them at once on an outdoor screen. Some nights everybody sings. Some nights the lawn goes completely silent, because the moment still works decades later, in the cemetery where the people who made it are buried. That last part is not a gimmick, and it is the strangest, most moving argument for keeping old films alive that this city has. Saturday nights on Santa Monica Boulevard through the summer, with the lineup posted at cinespia.org and seats gone well ahead of time. Pick the film your person quotes without meaning to, and buy two.

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

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

Sep 19, 2026 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.

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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.

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Sessions Surf Festival 2026 — Encinitas

Sep 18, 2026 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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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.

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.

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Long Beach Comic Con 2026

Sep 5 – Sep 6, 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.

Cinecon 62 Classic Film Festival 2026 — Los Angeles

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Cinecon 62 Classic Film Festival 2026 — Los Angeles

Sep 5, 2026 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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Las Cafeteras: Hasta La Muerte at Epstein Family Amphitheater — UCSD La Jolla

Sep 2, 2026 Epstein Family Amphitheater, 9480 …

The altar is still warm and nobody told you how to carry this. Your throat tightens at their favorite song, the flowers haven’t wilted yet, and the world moved on without asking if you were ready. Las Cafeteras built a whole show around that feeling. Hasta La Muerte is a two-act theatrical and musical production that walks through the stages of grief the way Día de los Muertos actually works — not as a costume holiday, but as a practice. A real one. The kind where you set a plate for someone who isn’t coming back and you laugh about the time they burned the rice and you cry in the same breath and nobody tells you to stop. The East LA band’s Afro-Mexican fusion — son jarocho roots twisted through hip-hop and cumbia and rock — turns the Epstein Family Amphitheater into the kind of room where strangers hold space for each other’s losses without saying a word. Insider note: this is not a seated-and-polite amphitheater experience. Las Cafeteras audiences dance. They sing back. The zapateado (percussive footwork on a tarima) is participatory — they’ll pull you in. Wear shoes you can stomp in. Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM. Epstein Family Amphitheater, UC San Diego, 9480 Innovation Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093. Right next to the Blue Line Trolley UCSD Central Campus Station.

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