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Anaheim Ducks vs. New York Islanders

Nov 14, 2026 Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

There is one night a week when a hockey arena is at full volume from the anthem onward, and it is this one. Saturday brings the casual crowd, the kids, the groups of twelve in matching jerseys, and the building sounds completely different than it does on a Tuesday — less expert, much louder, considerably more fun if you came for the atmosphere rather than the systems. The Islanders are in town, and their support is a particular curiosity in Southern California: transplanted Long Islanders who have been here twenty years and still say the name like a hometown. Expect a pocket of them somewhere in the upper bowl doing a chant nobody around them recognizes. The Islanders play a defensive structure that frustrates teams far better than their record suggests, so the game itself rarely matches the mood of the room, which is part of the charm. Seven o'clock on Saturday the fourteenth at Honda Center, and the lots off Katella fill early on a weekend, so leave margin.

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Anaheim Ducks vs. San Jose Sharks

Nov 25, 2026 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.

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Anaheim Ducks vs. Los Angeles Kings

Nov 27, 2026 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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Anaheim Ducks vs. Colorado Avalanche

Dec 27, 2026 Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

The stretch between Christmas and New Year's is the only week of the year with no assigned purpose. Nobody is sure what day it is, the fridge is full of things nobody wants, and everyone is politely waiting for ordinary life to start again. A five o'clock hockey game is a genuinely good answer to that week. Colorado is in town, which matters more than the standings suggest: the Avalanche are usually among the fastest teams anyone will watch all season, and seeing them from the lower bowl is the clearest way to understand how much quicker the professional version of this sport is than the one that arrives through a television. Speed does not survive the broadcast. Holiday Sunday also makes the trip painless — the 57 is empty and parking behaves for once, which on any other date it does not. Ducks and Avalanche on the twenty-seventh, a Sunday that otherwise has nothing in it, with the first puck at five.

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Anaheim Ducks vs. Philadelphia Flyers

Jan 3, 2027 ✨ New Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

The first Sunday of a new year is the last free day before the whole machine starts again. School, work, traffic, the alarm. You can feel it coming from about four in the afternoon onward, and the only real defence is to be somewhere with a scoreboard. Orange County's team exists because of a Disney movie, which is a genuinely ridiculous origin story for a club that went on to win this league in 2007. Longtime people still call the building the Pond, after a name it has not officially carried in twenty years, and you can tell roughly how long somebody has been coming by whether they say it. A five o'clock start on a Sunday means families, which means the noise is higher pitched and considerably more sincere than a weeknight crowd. For the kid in your life who has only ever seen ice on television. Five o'clock at 2695 E Katella Ave.

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Anaheim Ducks vs. Minnesota Wild

Jan 5, 2027 ✨ New Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

Tuesday in the first full week of January is the longest day on the calendar. Everything has restarted, nothing has momentum yet, it is dark at five, and the next actual holiday is a rumour somewhere in February. The team visiting calls its home the State of Hockey, without irony, on official signage. They are arriving in a county where children learn to skate in a shopping-mall rink next to a food court, and where the sport took hold anyway, hard, over about three decades. Watching those two versions of the same game meet in Orange County is quietly funnier than anybody involved will admit. Seven o'clock on Katella, a short walk from the ballpark, in a building that empties out onto a freeway ramp fast enough to get you home at a reasonable hour. For the one who keeps saying they would go to a game if somebody just picked a date. Honda Center, Tuesday the 5th.

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Elf the Musical — Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre (Holiday Season 2026)

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Elf the Musical — Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre (Holiday Season 2026)

Every day · Next Dec 29 San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 3rd …

The movie became a meme became a cultural institution became a Broadway musical became the thing every family does between Christmas and New Year's because nothing else captures that specific week-between-holidays energy quite like Buddy the Elf trying to hug a stranger. Elf the Musical at the San Diego Civic Theatre is the holiday show that works for the four-year-old and the forty-year-old in the same row — and both of them will be singing 'Santa's Coming to Town' on the drive home. The touring production brings the full Broadway staging: the sets are enormous, the costumes are absurd, and the cast treats the material with exactly the right amount of seriousness, which is none at all. Broadway San Diego closes the 2026 calendar with this one, and the timing is perfect — the week between Christmas and New Year's when nobody has anywhere to be and everyone needs somewhere to go. December 29, 2026 through January 3, 2027. San Diego Civic Theatre, downtown.

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Mummers Parade 2027 — Philadelphia, PA

Jan 1, 2027 Broad Street at City Hall, 1400 Jo…

Every New Year's Day has the same shape: too quiet, slightly grey, a day you are supposed to spend recovering and reflecting. In one American city they decided a long time ago to do the opposite, and they have not stopped since. The Mummers Parade is the oldest continuous folk parade in the United States, running on Broad Street every January 1 since 1901, with roots going back further than that into Swedish, Finnish, English and African American traditions that collided in South Philadelphia and never separated. Thousands of marchers in feathered, sequined, hand-built costumes — String Bands, Comics, Fancy Brigades — move from City Hall south to Washington Avenue over the better part of a day. What outsiders never grasp is that this is not a civic event with volunteers. These are neighbourhood clubs, many of them family memberships going back four generations, who spend the entire year building costumes and rehearsing in clubhouses on Two Street. A String Band's suit can cost more than a car. People are born into this. Is it worth it? If you have any interest in what folk culture looks like when it survives industrialisation, television and gentrification without being sanitised, this is one of the few places in America to see it. It is long, it is cold, it is loud, parts of it are chaotic, and none of that is a flaw. If you want a polished ninety-minute parade with a clear start and finish, this is not that. What to know: it kicks off at 9 a.m. at City Hall and runs until roughly 7 p.m., so pick a stretch of Broad Street and a time rather than trying to see all of it. Grandstand tickets go on sale in November. Dress for standing still outdoors in January — locals treat it as an all-day commitment with layers and a plan for food. The real afterparty is on Two Street in South Philly, which is where people who actually know go once the official route winds down. It earns a place here because almost nothing else in the country is like it: a city that answers the emptiest day of the year with the loudest thing it has. January 1, 2027, Broad Street, Philadelphia.

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Rose Parade 2027

Jan 1, 2027 Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91101

People start sleeping on the sidewalk along Colorado Boulevard two days early, in folding chairs, under blankets, beside families who have held the same patch of curb for decades. That part never makes the broadcast, and it is the better half of the whole thing. Then the floats come. Every visible surface is organic — flowers, seeds, bark, leaves, vegetation pressed on by volunteers working through the night — which is why they look impossible up close and merely pretty on television. Marching bands from high schools and universities across the country. Equestrian units. Dozens of floats moving five and a half miles east through Old Town Pasadena on the first morning of the year. Grandstand seats go through the Tournament of Roses and sell out months ahead. Curbside is free, and the Metro runs on New Year's Day. Go stand on a cold curb with strangers before sunrise. It is the only way this city starts a year all at once.

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TeeDee

Jan 29 – Jan 30, 2027 ✨ New $30.60 Sound Nightclub, 1642 N Las Palmas…

The last Friday in January is the bottom of the year. The holidays are a rumour, nothing warms up for another two months, and the only honest response is to find a dark room and stay in it until something shifts. Sound is the Hollywood answer to that: an unmarked door on Las Palmas, a rig built for people who care about low end, and a booking policy that leans on DJs who play long rather than names printed large. Ten o'clock start, which here means the first ninety minutes are for the people who actually came for the music and the room fills in behind them later. There is nothing else on this date for forty miles. That is not a complaint, it is the reason to go. Send it to whoever has been indoors since New Year's. From ten on January 29, Las Palmas in Hollywood.

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.

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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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