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Edgehill, Appleseed

In 11 days · Oct 18 Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San …

Sunday night shows are attended almost exclusively by people who wanted to be there, which changes the room more than any other single variable. No obligation crowd, no work-week bravado, nobody killing time before something else. Two acts, a dive bar, and maybe eighty people who each made a small deliberate choice to end their weekend standing up in front of a stage rather than lying down in front of a screen. Bands notice it and tend to play differently — looser, more talkative, more willing to try the new one. Doors at seven, music at eight, which means you are out and home at a defensible hour. October 18, Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Bring whoever has been saying you two should do something. There is live music in this city literally every night of the week, and the Sunday and Monday versions are consistently the warmest rooms of the seven.

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Will Sheff at Soda Bar

Aug 18, 2026 $20-$25 Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San …

There's a specific kind of embarrassment that the best singer-songwriting earns the right to -- fragile, literary, saying the thing out loud that you'd normally keep folded up -- and Will Sheff has spent his solo records living there. After nearly three decades of Okkervil River, he decided that was enough of one band, and what came next had to be a quieter shape with his own name on it. Soda Bar is the room for that on a Tuesday: three hundred capacity, El Cajon Boulevard, twenty dollars, the crowd who taped Okkervil shows in the early 2000s and now drive across town for an early-bedtime acoustic set. No opener is announced as of this writing, which usually means Will plays longer with the catalog wide open. Bring the friend who still has the burned CD. Doors at eight, music at eight-thirty. Tuesday in San Diego -- the room is small enough that you can read what he's got propped on the music stand.

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Greg Mendez + Maria BC

Aug 9, 2026 $15-$18 Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San …

Some songs sound like they were written alone in a bedroom at midnight because they were, and Greg Mendez's are the compliment version of that -- spare, plain-spoken, the kind of writing where a chord change carries more weight than the line over it. He records most of it by himself in Philadelphia, and Maria BC, opera-trained out of the Bay Area, opens with sad ambient pop you've heard if your playlists lean the right way. Both have small, attentive audiences who travel for the show. Soda Bar in City Heights is the tiny indie room that takes touring songwriters seriously without making them play a stadium-sized version of themselves -- three hundred capacity, El Cajon Boulevard, twenty-something at the door. Bring the friend who texts you songs at two in the morning. 21+, doors at eight, music at eight-thirty. Sunday night in San Diego, and the room is small enough that there is no bad spot to stand.

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Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Jul 1 – Jul 4, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

You will be tired in a way that feels earned. Four days, a hundred thousand people, and not one of them needs you to explain what you are talking about. The largest anime convention in North America takes the Los Angeles Convention Center over Fourth of July weekend and spills into the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton beside it. Industry panels, screening rooms, autograph sessions with voice actors and composers, concerts that sell out weeks ahead. Studios from Japan use this as their main North American announcement stage — if a sequel or adaptation is being revealed, it often happens in a room you could be standing in. The exhibit hall carries imported merchandise and collaboration exclusives that surface nowhere else on the continent. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. Thursday through Sunday. Badges run from top-tier early-access down to single-day passes. Book the connected hotel corridor months out. Everyone who tells you that learned it the hard way.

Oceanside Sunset Market -- Summer 2026 Thursdays

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Oceanside Sunset Market -- Summer 2026 Thursdays

Every Thursday · Next Oct 8 Free Coast Hwy & Pier View Way, Oceansi…

The Pacific is a block away. Every Thursday evening from 5 to 9 PM, the corner of Coast Highway and Pier View Way becomes the Oceanside Sunset Market — vendors, food, live music, and the light that only happens when you're that close to the water at that hour. The beach-town market that runs when the day is actually good. Local makers, artisans, food vendors, and the crowd that comes out because the evening earned it. The vendor mix is Oceanside-specific: local crafts, art, jewelry, produce, and the food vendors that the beach corridor supports. The live music stage runs throughout the evening. The Oceanside Pier is visible from the market — the setting does work the vendors don't have to. Free to attend. Parking available near the Pier. Every Thursday, May through September, 5-9 PM. Oceanside, California. The market runs through marine layer some evenings. The cooler Pacific air is part of the draw, not a reason to stay home.

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Pacific Beach Night Market

Monthly · Next Nov 4 Free Bayard St and Garnet Ave, Pacific …

A hundred and fifty steps from the ocean, a corner of Pacific Beach turns into a block party that nobody had to organize you into. Fire pits going. Nine to twelve food vendors rotating week to week, so the thing you loved last time might be gone and the thing replacing it might be better. Live music that is genuinely local — acoustic sets, small bands, the occasional DJ. Games. A crowd of PB locals and students and people who simply wandered up from the beach still holding a towel. Past vendors have run birria tacos, banh mi, craft lemonade, Hawaiian shave ice, artisan pastries, small-batch hot sauces. A few craft sellers usually set up alongside. This is a neighborhood gathering, not a ticketed event. Free. No RSVP. You walk up. Bayard St and Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 5 to 9:30 PM. Bring a layer — it cools off fast after sunset, even in August.

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Taste of Soul LA 2026

In 10 days · Oct 17 Free Crenshaw Blvd (Martin Luther King …

The smell reaches you before the stages do - barbecue and catfish and soul food covering a mile-plus of Crenshaw Boulevard, because every major Black-owned restaurant in South LA has a booth out here and the food is the center of the whole thing. For one Saturday in October, this stretch between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Leimert Park Village becomes one of the largest street festivals in Los Angeles. More than 300,000 people move through in a single day. The format is street vendors, restaurant booths, live music stages, a car show, health screenings, and community organization presence - but it is the food and the crowd that make it. Founded by the Los Angeles Sentinel, the oldest Black-owned newspaper in California, it has run for over two decades and stayed a genuine community institution: multigenerational, neighborhood-rooted, and enormous. This is Leimert Park and Crenshaw at their fullest. Free to attend. Crenshaw closes to traffic for the day. The Metro K Line stops at Leimert Park Village and is the easiest way in and out. Arrive early if you want to move - by noon the crowds are deep.

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Gaslamp Artisan Market (GLAM)

Every 1st Saturday · Next Nov 7 Free 400-500 5th Ave, Gaslamp Quarter, …

Every Saturday and Sunday, the heart of San Diego historic Gaslamp Quarter transforms into an outdoor open-air artisan market. The Gaslamp Artisan Market -- known as GLAM -- runs the length of 5th Avenue between Market Street and J Street, with 70 local artisans showcasing handmade, one-of-a-kind goods. This is where San Diego independent makers set up shop: handcrafted jewelry, original paintings, ceramics, leather goods, woven textiles, hand-poured candles, botanical skincare, and prints from local artists who live and work in this city every day. The market hosts live music from local musicians throughout the day. GLAM is free to attend and open to all ages. Shaded seating is available. The market runs 10 AM to 4 PM. Getting there: Located in the Gaslamp Quarter, easily accessible by trolley (Gaslamp Quarter station on the Blue and Orange line). Street parking and paid lots available on nearby blocks. No ticket required. This recurring weekend market is one of San Diego most accessible community gathering points for makers and collectors alike.

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The Haunted Parlour Room at the Reindeer Room

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The Haunted Parlour Room at the Reindeer Room

Oct 22, 2026 $55 Skypark, Pond Road, Lake Arrowhead…

A good ghost story needs a room that was already keeping secrets. Up in the San Bernardino Mountains, hidden inside SkyPark, there is a small speakeasy that spends most of the year doing cocktails and live music by reservation only, and for one night it hands the room over to a storytelling duo working prohibition-era legends. Guests are encouraged to turn up in their haunted best, 1920s speakeasy. The cocktails are built around the story rather than served beside it, with charcuterie and tastings between the acts, and the room is small enough that the storytellers will be close enough to make you flinch. Historic mountain-lodge bones, cocktail-lounge glamour, no stage to hide behind. Seating starts at 6:00 PM on October 22. Tickets are $55 per person, 21 and over, reservations required, and space is genuinely limited. The Reindeer Room keeps going on Friday and Saturday evenings all year with cocktail classes and themed nights, so the mountain holds more of this than one October evening.

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