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Dandadan: First Encounter — U.S. Theatrical Screening

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Dandadan: First Encounter — U.S. Theatrical Screening

Jun 6, 2026 AMC Theatres and Cinemark location…

Dandadan: First Encounter brings the wildest anime of 2025 to U.S. theaters on June 6, 2026 — a limited theatrical run from GKIDS and Fathom Events that packages the first arc of the beloved series for the big screen experience it deserves. The series follows Momo Ayase, who believes in ghosts but not aliens, and Ken Okarun, who believes in aliens but not ghosts — until the day they both turn out to be right. What follows is a supernatural action comedy that mixes paranormal investigator energy with shounen battle sequences and genuine emotional depth. The theatrical presentation brings the animation's kinetic visual style — OLM's dynamic direction, Eunyoung Choi's fluid action choreography — to a format where the scale actually registers. GKIDS theatrical screenings typically run at AMC, Regal, and Cinemark locations with subtitled and dubbed options. Check your local listings for exact showtimes and theater availability in Los Angeles and San Diego. This is not a watch-at-home event. The theatrical window is limited. If you've already watched the series on Netflix, this is the original Japanese broadcast presentation — the one that made the animation community stop what it was doing when it premiered. Tickets available through Fandango and the AMC app. Limited dates, limited theaters.

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LeAnn Rimes at Pechanga

Jun 6, 2026 Pechanga Resort Casino, 45000 Pech…

LeAnn Rimes performs Saturday June 6 at 8:00 PM at Pechanga Theater. 'Blue,' 'How Do I Live,' 'Can't Fight the Moonlight' — three decades of crossover hits delivered by a voice that belongs in a different category from almost everyone else working in country music. Rimes tours selectively, which makes a Pechanga show feel like an occasion. Tickets via Pechanga Box Office and Ticketmaster.

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Outdoor Movie: MAMMA MIA!

May 30, 2026 $15-25 9th St and Hope St, Grand Hope Par…

Street Food Cinema's outdoor screening of Mamma Mia! fills Grand Hope Park in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, May 30, 2026. Doors open at 5:30 PM; film begins at dusk around 8:15 PM. The 2008 musical starring Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, and Pierce Brosnan, with an ABBA soundtrack driving every scene, has become one of the most enthusiastically crowd-watched films on the outdoor cinema circuit. This is the kind of screening where people sing along, and that is the point. Grand Hope Park is a small urban green space at 9th and Hope Streets in the South Park neighborhood of downtown LA. The lawn fills quickly for Street Food Cinema events here, so arrive early. On-site vendors provide food and drinks; the pre-show DJ set is typically matched to the film's energy. Tickets are available at the Street Food Cinema website. This event tends to sell out. Secure yours in advance and come ready to dance.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End — Special Screening

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End — Special Screening

May 30, 2026 $12 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5665 Balb…

Alamo Drafthouse San Diego. May 30th. $12. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End gets a special screening in a room designed to be the right room for it — Drafthouse, full service, the film playing in the dark with the kind of audience that chose to see it in a theater because they understood what that meant. Frieren is the anime that caught people off guard. It looks like a fantasy adventure and operates as a meditation on time and grief and the way memory functions in the people left behind. The pacing is deliberate. The emotional payoff arrives when you're not defending against it. Watching it in a theater, surrounded by people who came for exactly this, in a venue that takes cinema seriously enough to build its entire identity around it — that is the version of this story that lands differently. Alamo Drafthouse got this right. $12. May 30th. Reserve your seat at drafthouse.com/san-diego. Come before the show starts — the pre-show programming at Drafthouse is curated, not filler. If you've been watching Frieren at home and want to see what an episode at full scale in the dark does to it, this is the screening. If you haven't started the series yet, this is the wrong entry point. Watch the show first. Then come back and see it in this room.

Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band at Pechanga

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Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band at Pechanga

May 28, 2026 Pechanga Resort Casino, 45000 Pech…

A Beatle, live in Temecula. Ringo Starr brings his All Starr Band to Pechanga Theater Thursday May 28 at 8:00 PM — a rotating supergroup of rock royalty performing their individual hits alongside Beatles classics. Ringo's shows are about joy. He means it, the band means it, and the crowd knows it. There are not many chances left to see a Beatle play. Tickets via Pechanga Box Office and Ticketmaster.

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FanimeCon 2026

May 22 – May 25, 2026 Paid - $75-$120 San Jose Convention Center, 150 W …

Unlike larger conventions, FanimeCon is entirely fan-run. No corporate booths dominating the floor. The panels, screenings, and programming are organized by volunteers who have been running this event for decades. That community ownership gives it an atmosphere that is hard to replicate. It feels less like a trade show and more like the largest anime club meetup in California. FanimeCon has run every Memorial Day weekend since 1994 at the San Jose Convention Center, drawing 25,000–30,000 attendees over four days. The West Coast flagship. Programming runs 24 hours across the weekend. The cosplay masquerade on Saturday is a full theatrical production. The gaming hall is one of the best at any convention — tournaments, free-play consoles, and retro arcades running through the night. The dealer room and artist alley are substantial, with indie creators outnumbering corporate licensors. Bay Area, Sacramento, and Central Valley attendees make up the core, but it draws from across the West Coast. Four-day badges sell out. Single-day passes may be available at the door. If you have been to Anime Expo but not FanimeCon, the culture is meaningfully different.

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Castle Rat

May 24, 2026 400 W Disney Way, #337, House of B…

The Parish at House of Blues Anaheim, 400 W Disney Way. May 24th. Castle Rat — the band operating in the tradition of theatrical doom, heavy psych, and the visual world that heavy music has always conjured when it's doing it right — bringing their show to the Anaheim mid-size room that was built for exactly this kind of performance. The Parish is the venue that puts the crowd and the stage in the right relationship for a heavy bill. The sound is designed for the frequencies. The standing floor creates the specific pressure of a crowd that arrived for the music and knows it. Castle Rat live is the experience that the recordings are blueprints for — the theatricality, the density of the sound in a room at volume, the set building toward something that pays off. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 24th. The Anaheim location makes this accessible from across Orange County and from LA. If you've been following Castle Rat's trajectory and waiting for the Southern California date on this run, this is the Parish show. Get your ticket before the floor goes.

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D23 x SFC: Pirates of the Caribbean

May 23, 2026 $15-25 4700 Western Heritage Way, The Aut…

The D23 Fan Club and Street Food Cinema have teamed up for a special outdoor screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at The Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park on Saturday, May 23, 2026. Doors open at 6:00 PM; film screens at dusk around 8:15 PM. This D23-presented screening carries Disney fan community energy: expect cosplay, themed photo opportunities, and a crowd that treats the film with genuine affection. The Autry Museum grounds provide a picturesque lawn setting in the foothills of Griffith Park, framed by trees and open to the evening sky. Bring low-back chairs or a blanket. Food vendors and DJs are on-site before showtime. The Autry Museum is at 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027, with parking available in Griffith Park. This event is open to all guests regardless of D23 membership. Check the Street Food Cinema website for tickets and any member benefits.

Bright Eyes - 21 Years of Wide Awake & Digital Ash

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Bright Eyes - 21 Years of Wide Awake & Digital Ash

May 23, 2026 2301 N Highland Ave, Hollywood Bow…

Hollywood Bowl, May 23rd, 2026. Bright Eyes — Conor Oberst, performing the complete "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" and "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" twenty-one years after those albums were released in the same week and changed the conversation about what indie rock and folk-rock could do simultaneously. Both albums exist in the specific memory of the person who heard them at seventeen in a way that almost nothing else from that era does. The writing was too specific, too exposed, too unlikely to have come from anywhere but the actual interior of a person living through exactly what the songs described. Twenty-one years later, those people are in their late thirties, and the Hollywood Bowl is where this reckoning happens. The Hollywood Bowl is the right venue. The outdoor amphitheater, the Los Angeles evening, the hills behind the shell — the setting earns both albums at full size. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. The lawn is the social option; the reserved sections are the full theatrical experience. Either way, "Lua" performed live at the Hollywood Bowl in 2026 is not the same song it was in 2005, and hearing it in a room full of people for whom that's true is the only way to find out what it became.

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TOArts presents the YALA Film Festival

May 23, 2026 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd, Scherr…

Thousand Oaks, May 23rd. The Scherr Forum at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center becomes a film festival for one evening — the YALA Film Festival, brought by TOArts to a venue with the acoustics and sightlines to make cinema feel like the event it was always meant to be. Film festivals at proper performing arts venues operate differently than multiplex screenings. The room holds the sound the way it was designed to. The audience assembles with intention — these are not passive ticket-buyers, they are people who chose a festival over a regular movie night. The programming at YALA is curated with a specific editorial eye, which means the films that appear here have been selected for a reason. The conversation that surrounds a festival screening turns two hours of film into an evening. Tickets at ticketmaster.com — lock your seats before the event fills. The Scherr Forum is a legitimate performing arts venue, built for this kind of experience. A film festival at a real theater is the version of moviegoing that reminds you why cinemas exist: the collective attention, the shared reaction, the walk out afterward when everyone is still inside what they just watched. Don't miss it — ticket availability is limited at a venue this size.

Queen Bee's Open Mic Night — 1st & 3rd Thursdays

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Queen Bee's Open Mic Night — 1st & 3rd Thursdays

May 21 – May 22, 2026 Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center,…

Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center hosts a bi-monthly open mic on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 8 PM — San Diego's most genuinely community-driven open mic, covering music, comedy, poetry, spoken word, and whatever else someone brings to a room that takes all of it seriously. Queen Bee's is a community arts space in North Park, not a bar with a side open mic. The difference matters: the crowd shows up for the performers rather than the other way around, which means the open mic has a different energy than most. People who have never performed in front of an audience have done their first set here. People who perform regularly keep coming back because the room is honest. The format is simple: sign up before the show, get your five to seven minutes, be respectful of the other performers. The genres are genuinely mixed — a singer-songwriter might follow a stand-up comedian who follows a slam poet. The quality varies, which is the point. Some of the best sets come from people who do not look like they are about to do something remarkable. Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center, 3925 Ohio St, San Diego, CA 92104. North Park neighborhood. The 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at 8 PM. Low or no cover. Street parking on Ohio St and surrounding North Park streets. Check openmicsandiego.com or Queen Bee's social media for same-night confirmation.

KCRW Presents Dry Cleaning - MOVED FROM WILTERN

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KCRW Presents Dry Cleaning - MOVED FROM WILTERN

May 21, 2026 1050 South Hill Street, The Belasc…

The Belasco, 1050 South Hill St, Los Angeles. May 21st. KCRW presents Dry Cleaning — the South London post-punk band whose vocalist Florence Shaw delivers spoken word over three musicians who build the kind of dry, anxious, deadpan rock that sounds like nothing else being made right now — at the Downtown LA venue that handles this audience correctly. Dry Cleaning is the band that makes you lean in. Shaw's delivery is conversational in a way that rewards attention — the non-sequiturs connect when you're paying close enough, and the three musicians underneath are doing something structurally interesting enough that the floor of the Belasco is the right place to hear what it actually is. KCRW programming it is the endorsement from the station that has been making these calls correctly for decades. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 21st in Downtown Los Angeles. This tour moved from the Wiltern — the Belasco is the more intimate version of that same crowd in the right room. Get your ticket before the floor goes. KCRW shows sell on the credibility of the programming, and this one is the real thing.

Clue: The Movie - 40th Anniversary w/ Tim Curry &

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Clue: The Movie - 40th Anniversary w/ Tim Curry &

May 17, 2026 2200 East Katella Ave., Grove of A…

Grove of Anaheim, 2200 East Katella Ave. May 17th, 2026. Clue: The Movie — the 1985 farce that was a box office failure and a cult masterpiece — turning 40, with Tim Curry in attendance, at an anniversary screening that rewards everyone who has quoted this film in the wrong context for four decades. Clue is the movie that gets funnier every time. Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Eileen Brennan, Lesley Ann Warren, and Tim Curry in the role he was specifically built to play — the pace is machine-gun, the performances committed to a joke level that shouldn't work and absolutely does, and the three-ending structure remains the most ambitious thing a studio comedy tried in the 1980s. Seeing it in a room with people who love it is the correct version of Clue. Tim Curry appearing for the anniversary turns this into something different from a revival screening. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 17th. The Grove of Anaheim holds this well. Come knowing the lines — the audience participation at a Clue screening is part of the film. "Flames. Flames, on the side of my face." You know the rest. The 40th anniversary is the occasion this film has always deserved.

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Outdoor Movie: Ferris Buellers Day Off

May 16, 2026 $15-25 1245 N Spring St, LA State Histori…

Street Food Cinema screens Ferris Bueller's Day Off under the stars at LA State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, May 16, 2026. Doors open at 5:30 PM; film begins at dusk around 8:15 PM, leaving a full evening of pre-show entertainment, food, and lawn-party atmosphere before the classic 1986 John Hughes film rolls. LA State Historic Park at 1245 N Spring Street in Chinatown offers a flat lawn that fits thousands of guests. Bring low chairs or a blanket and arrive early to stake out your spot. Street Food Cinema events feature on-site food and drink vendors, DJ music before the screening, and a festival-style crowd that makes even familiar films feel communal. Ferris Bueller's Day Off follows the iconic Chicago skip day at the speed of its 1980s confidence. Watching it outdoors with a crowd amplifies every punchline. Tickets are available through the Street Food Cinema website. This event commonly sells out for warm-weather May nights, so book in advance.

Pacific Festival Ballet Presents Camelot

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Pacific Festival Ballet Presents Camelot

May 16, 2026 2100 E. Thousand Oaks, Fred Kavli …

Pacific Festival Ballet presents Camelot at the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks on May 16, 2026 — a full-scale staged ballet production performed by the company that has made this venue a destination for professional dance. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. Ballet at this scale, in a venue this well-designed for it, is the kind of experience that feels larger than its running time. The Fred Kavli Theatre was built specifically for the performing arts — the acoustics, the sightlines, and the room size hit a middle point between intimate and grand that most dance venues can't manage. Pacific Festival Ballet brings technical precision and theatrical commitment to material that rewards both. Camelot — the story of Arthur, Guinevere, and the ideal that doesn't survive contact with reality — is performed here as ballet, which strips the narrative to its emotional core. What remains is movement and music and the specific ache of watching something beautiful that cannot last. Tickets at ticketmaster.com. Thousand Oaks is a 45-minute drive from most of Los Angeles. This is a night worth making the drive for.

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Lestat's Monday Night Open Mic

May 11, 2026 Lestat's Coffee House, 3343 Adams …

Lestat's Coffee House on Adams Avenue runs a music open mic every Monday evening — sign-ups at 5:30 PM, show from 6 to 8 PM, no cover charge, all genres welcome. It is one of the longest-running open mics in San Diego and the most accessible entry point for anyone who wants to perform in front of a real audience for the first time. The Monday open mic at Lestat's draws a mix of regulars who have been coming for years and first-timers who found the listing and decided to try. The audience is respectful, the room is a coffee house (which means quieter and more attentive than a bar), and the format gives every performer a fair shot. Singer-songwriters, acoustic bands, solo instrumentalists, the occasional comedian or spoken word performer — the diversity of what shows up on any given Monday is one of its virtues. Lestat's Coffee House, 3343 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA 92116. Normal Heights neighborhood. Every Monday, sign-ups 5:30 PM, show 6-8 PM. Free admission. Coffee, tea, and light food available throughout. Street parking on Adams Ave and surrounding Normal Heights streets. The 11 bus runs along Adams Ave. The open mic is an institution in the Normal Heights music community — the people who run it have been doing this for a long time.

Outdoor Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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Outdoor Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

May 9, 2026 $15-25 1501 Will Rogers State Park Rd, Pa…

Street Food Cinema brings E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial back to the big screen outdoors at Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades on Saturday, May 9, 2026. This is a full lawn screening experience: bring a blanket, low-backed chairs, and snacks to set up under the open sky while the classic 1982 Spielberg film plays on a large outdoor screen. Doors open at 6:30 PM with time to browse food vendors and settle in before the film begins at dusk. Will Rogers State Historic Park sits above Pacific Palisades with views of the Santa Monica Mountains, making the setting itself worth the trip before the movie starts. Street Food Cinema events include lawn games, live DJs before showtime, and a rotating lineup of food trucks and pop-up vendors. The crowd skews nostalgic and enthusiastic. Tickets are sold in advance on the Street Food Cinema website. Sold-out events are common in summer so booking early is recommended. The park is at 1501 Will Rogers State Park Road, Pacific Palisades, CA. Parking available on-site.

Cult Classics Cinema Presents BLACK PANTHER

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Cult Classics Cinema Presents BLACK PANTHER

May 9, 2026 226 Market St, The Miracle Theater…

Cinema in a room like The Miracle Theater is an event — the streaming option was always a compromise. Cult Classics Cinema Presents BLACK PANTHER screens at The Miracle Theater, Inglewood, on May 9, 2026. Cinema in a room like this is an event — the streaming option was always a compromise.

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