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Los Angeles Lakers vs. Utah Jazz

Nov 23, 2026 Crypto.com Arena, 1111 S Figueroa …

Monday night at Crypto.com Arena, the Lakers host the Utah Jazz in a regular-season NBA matchup that lights up the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The arena in DTLA is one of the loudest rooms in professional basketball — seventeen championship banners catch the light overhead, the crowd runs loud from tip-off, and the building itself has hosted more marquee moments than any arena west of the Mississippi. Whether you are chasing a first game or your fiftieth, the energy of a Lakers home night stays with you long after the final buzzer. Doors open early, the surrounding DTLA food and bar scene provides a full pregame experience on Figueroa Street and LA Live, and the Crypto.com Arena plaza turns into its own gathering before every contest. The Jazz bring a young, fast roster that pushes the pace, making for an up-tempo game that rewards every minute of attention from the opening tip to the fourth-quarter stretch. Game time is 7:00 PM.

San Diego Gulls vs Ontario Reign — Tuesday at Pechanga Arena

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San Diego Gulls vs Ontario Reign — Tuesday at Pechanga Arena

Nov 24, 2026 Pechanga Arena San Diego, 3500 Spo…

You can hear the bench from row twelve. That is the entire argument for a Tuesday in late November — no promotion, no giveaway, no bobblehead, maybe four thousand people in a building built for twelve, and a coach forty feet away losing his mind at a linesman in language you can make out word for word. The Reign are in town, and there is a decade of grievance between these two rosters. The Gulls and the Reign sit ninety miles apart, which in the American Hockey League means they play each other constantly and neither side has ever gotten over it. Both are development clubs — Anaheim's prospects against Los Angeles's — so the kid who takes a bad penalty in the second is a kid trying to make an NHL roster in front of scouts who drove down for exactly this. The hits land differently when a career is the stake rather than a standings point. Weeknight crowds here are smaller and infinitely louder per capita. You can hear the bench. You can hear a coach lose it. Sit low if you can — the glass on the Gulls' attacking end in the first and third is where you feel the game in your sternum instead of watching it. Pechanga Arena, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd. Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 7:00 PM.

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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Anaheim Ducks vs. San Jose Sharks

Nov 25, 2026 ✨ New Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

The 6:30 faceoff is the tell that somebody scheduled this one around Thanksgiving travel. It is the Wednesday before the holiday, half the county is at the airport or on the 5, and the people who choose a hockey game instead have made a quietly excellent decision — the roads around Katella are emptier than any other November night and the building has the relaxed feeling of a room where nobody has anywhere to be in the morning. San Jose is the opponent, which still carries an edge for anyone who remembers the 2009 playoff series, even though almost nobody on either roster was alive in the league for it. California hockey rivalries are stranger and more durable than outsiders assume. Bring somebody who thinks hockey is incomprehensible: a 6:30 start and a half-empty midweek building is the easiest possible first game, because you can actually follow the puck and hear the hits. Puck drops half an hour after six, the night before the night before Thanksgiving.

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.

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.

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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Anaheim Ducks vs. Los Angeles Kings

Nov 27, 2026 ✨ New Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

Every transplant city invents its rivalries, and this is the one Southern California actually earned. The Freeway Face-Off is Ducks and Kings, forty-five minutes of the 5 between two buildings, and it splits households rather than cities — the real version of this is an argument between a brother in Anaheim and a sister in El Segundo that has been running since the nineties. A one o'clock start on the Friday after Thanksgiving makes it stranger and better: daylight hockey, a building full of people avoiding shopping and relatives in roughly equal measure, and a crowd that is genuinely close to half and half, which almost never happens at a home game. An afternoon game also means the whole thing is over by four, which leaves the evening intact for whatever the holiday weekend still demands of you. Black Friday afternoon, first puck at one, Honda Center off Katella. Wear the colors you actually mean, because somebody will check.

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Broadway Rave

Nov 27 – Nov 28, 2026 from $20 Teragram Ballroom, 1234 W 7th St, …

Picture a nightclub at ten on the Friday after Thanksgiving where the drop is the key change in Defying Gravity and six hundred people scream it at a ceiling. That is the whole product and it is not a joke - it is a real touring club night that sells out rooms across the country because it solved a problem nobody was addressing: theatre kids grew up, still want to go out, and do not want to hear house music. So the DJ plays Hamilton into Mamma Mia into Rent, the floor knows every lyric and every gesture, and strangers perform choreography at each other with total sincerity. Go with one friend who did drama and watch a version of them you have not met. Twenty-one and over, late start, and the crowd arrives already knowing what it is - which is what makes it work. Teragram Ballroom, downtown Los Angeles, the night after the holiday.

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UCLA Bruins vs USC Trojans

Nov 28, 2026 $40+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Los Angeles only has one football rivalry that splits families and offices down the middle, and it ends the regular season every year with the Victory Bell on the line. UCLA and USC have been fighting over this city since 1929, blue and gold against cardinal and gold, the Rose Bowl or the Coliseum turning into enemy territory depending on the year — and in 2026 the crosstown grudge lands at the Rose Bowl as the season finale, with the bell, the bragging rights, and a whole year of trash talk riding on sixty minutes. There is no bigger local ticket in college sports. Saturday, November 28, 2026, Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Wear your colors into a stadium full of people wearing the other ones, get there early for the tailgates in the golf-course lots, and come find out which half of Los Angeles gets to spend the winter gloating. Whichever way it goes, it is the game the whole city will be talking about on Monday morning.

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Emma Ruth Rundle-These Killing Times

Nov 28, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Grief written down carefully enough stops being self-indulgent and starts being useful to other people, which is the transaction at the center of this catalog. Rundle came up through Los Angeles heavy music, played in bands loud enough to damage hearing, and makes solo records that are quieter and considerably more frightening. The guitar playing is in open tunings that ring in ways standard tuning cannot, and live she performs largely in the dark. Rooms go completely silent. Her audience crosses metal, folk, and the general population of people having a hard year, which produces one of the more unusual crowd compositions in music. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall is the right scale and the right acoustics for it. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Coming home to a room like this at the end of a holiday weekend is its own kind of correct.

Los Angeles Chargers vs. New England Patriots — Sunday Night Football

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Los Angeles Chargers vs. New England Patriots — Sunday Night Football

Nov 29, 2026 SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Ing…

The Chargers close out November at SoFi Stadium with a Sunday Night Football showdown against the New England Patriots. Kickoff is 5:20 PM under the translucent roof in Inglewood — the NFL's most architecturally striking venue, where the late-afternoon light bleeds through the canopy and the sound never escapes. This matchup carries recent playoff history: the Patriots eliminated the Chargers from last season's postseason, and the Inglewood faithful will remember every snap of it. SoFi on a prime-time night is a different animal from a Sunday afternoon — the pregame tailgate stretches across the Hollywood Park parking structures, the entertainment district hums before and after with restaurants and bars that stay open late, and a nationally televised crowd raises the decibel floor from the opening drive. The Chargers under Jim Harbaugh have turned this building into one of the toughest road games in the NFL, and a revenge game under the lights is exactly the kind of atmosphere that makes the trip to Inglewood worth the drive from anywhere in Southern California.

Los Angeles Kings vs. Vegas Golden Knights

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Los Angeles Kings vs. Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 1, 2026 Crypto.com Arena, 1111 S Figueroa …

Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena, the Kings welcome the Vegas Golden Knights for an early-December Pacific Division rivalry game that opens a long homestand. The Kings-Knights matchup has become one of the most anticipated on the Western Conference calendar — Vegas brings a traveling fanbase loud enough to make any arena feel contested, gold jerseys scattered through the lower bowl, and the Kings faithful answer in kind with a defensive intensity that turns every neutral-zone battle into a statement. The ice at Crypto.com Arena sits right in the heart of downtown LA, surrounded by the same restaurants and bars that fuel the Lakers pregame scene, but hockey nights carry a different edge: smaller, more dedicated crowds, tighter sightlines from every level, and a sport that rewards attention with violence and beauty in equal measure. December is when the NHL season starts to reveal who is real and who is pretending, and a divisional game against Vegas is a measuring stick nobody in the building takes lightly. Puck drops at 7:00 PM.

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Anaheim Ducks vs. Minnesota Wild

Dec 1, 2026 ✨ New Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

A Tuesday in December has nothing to recommend it. Nothing is on, nothing is happening, and the evening tends to get spent indoors deciding not to do anything. Hockey fixes this better than any other sport, because a hockey crowd on a weeknight is a different animal from a weekend one. It is the people who actually follow the team, sitting closer together because the building is not full, and you can pick out individual voices from across the ice — someone four sections over yelling at a defenseman by his first name. The Ducks host Minnesota at Honda Center, which the people who have held seats since the nineties still call the Pond, and the Wild are the kind of opponent that produces a tight, low-scoring, genuinely good game instead of a shootout. Both teams check hard and neither cheats for offense, so the hour goes quickly and the third period actually means something. Puck drops at 7. Katella Avenue, Anaheim, Tuesday the first of December.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2026 — Miami Beach, FL

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Art Basel Miami Beach 2026 — Miami Beach, FL

Dec 2 – Dec 7, 2026 Miami Beach Convention Center, 190…

You leave having seen things that will show up in auction records and retrospectives for the next decade - and you did not have to buy a single piece to be part of it. For one week in December, Miami Beach becomes the most concentrated gathering of contemporary art in the Western Hemisphere: 250 galleries from 30 countries, and a city that builds its entire social calendar around them. The main fair at the Convention Center is overwhelming in the best sense, with galleries from New York, London, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo competing for attention across a space that would hold several football fields. Wynwood's murals and the Design District's boutiques become satellite venues. Opening-night parties are invitation-only, but the energy of the week bleeds into every restaurant and hotel lobby in South Beach. This is not a quiet museum experience - it is a city in a specific, charged state of collective attention that happens once a year and then recedes. It is worth attending even with no intention of buying: the public programming includes talks, artist installations, and outdoor screenings, and the works you encounter at the main fair and at satellite shows like Untitled, NADA, and Scope are what the contemporary art world is actively debating in real time. If you care what art is doing right now, this is where you go to find out. Secure a hotel early - December in Miami Beach is peak season and fair proximity commands a premium. The main fair requires a ticket ($50-100 depending on day and time); many satellite fairs are free. RSVP to gallery openings in advance through their own websites, and book Design District restaurants weeks out. A car or rideshare is more flexible than the free shuttle. The main fair is most crowded on preview days (Wednesday and Thursday) and thinnest on Sunday, when collectors pack up their acquisitions. Miami absorbs the energy of the global art market and does not quite release it until January. December in Miami Beach.

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Ontario Reign vs Calgary Wranglers

Dec 2, 2026 $18+ Toyota Arena, 4000 Ontario Center …

December is when the standings stop being theoretical. Points banked now are the ones a team is grateful for in the spring, and everyone on the ice knows it. Calgary's top prospects come back to Ontario for the rematch, and this is the stretch of the season where a hot young player can put himself on an NHL radar inside a single week. That is what makes a midweek game worth leaving the house for: nobody is coasting, because everybody is auditioning. The arena is decked out for the season, families make a whole night of it, and the hockey stays fast and physical from the opening drop. A Wednesday night at Toyota Arena in Ontario, and still one of the better sports bargains out here. Come in out of the cold, get a seat near the glass, and watch somebody play their way north.

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Los Angeles Rams vs. Kansas City Chiefs

Dec 3, 2026 SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Ing…

A Thursday night game asks something of you that a Sunday does not. You have to leave work early, you have to talk somebody into coming with you on a school night, and you have to sit in Inglewood traffic at the exact hour the whole of the 405 is trying to get home, which is the single most common reason people who bought tickets end up watching the first quarter from a parking structure. Build in the extra hour. What you are buying with it is the version of this stadium that only exists after dark, when the canopy holds the light in and a national broadcast is pointed at your city, and the answer to whether this season meant anything is usually somewhere in a December game against a team this good. Kansas City in primetime is the measuring stick the whole league uses. December 3, 5:15 p.m. Leave earlier than you think you need to, and stay for the walk out.

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Los Angeles Kings vs. Minnesota Wild

Dec 3, 2026 Crypto.com Arena, 1111 S Figueroa …

Thursday night hockey at Crypto.com Arena as the Kings take on the Minnesota Wild in the second game of LA's December homestand. December hockey in Los Angeles is one of the city's quietest pleasures — the tourist crowds thin out after Thanksgiving, the arena stays cold and loud, and the Kings settle into the rhythm of a long home stretch that rewards the regulars who show up on weeknights when the rest of the city is elsewhere. Minnesota brings a blue-collar road game built on forechecking and neutral-zone discipline, the kind of opponent that makes for a cleaner, faster contest than the divisional grudge matches — fewer scrums, more transition, and a pace that pulls you to the edge of your seat before you realize you are leaning. The DTLA location means you can walk to dinner in any direction after the final horn, and the Thursday-night timing puts you back home before midnight with a story about a game most of your friends did not know was happening. That is the beauty of weeknight hockey in this city: it belongs to the people who were paying attention. Puck drops at 7:00 PM.

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