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Vidiots — In the Eagle Film Series

Every Thursday · Next Oct 29 $12-$15 Vidiots, 4884 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los…

In Eagle Rock, the video store never died; it grew a marquee. Maggie Mackay gave Los Angeles a room where the movie theater and the video store are finally the same thing — the kind of place where the people who built the shelves in the 1990s could be the people programming the screen now. So Vidiots operates the Eagle Theatre in Eagle Rock, a nearly century-old movie house with a 271-seat auditorium that runs 35mm and 16mm and digital. The In the Eagle series is the weekly repertory programming — classics, hard-to-find features, new indie releases, the rare screening you would have driven to a different city for ten years ago. Programming rotates Wednesday through Sunday. Tickets twelve to fifteen dollars. Concessions include real popcorn. The MUBI Microcinema next door holds thirty-six for smaller screenings. Eagle Rock Boulevard. The crowd is LA cinephiles and the neighbors who walked over.

Improvement Movement – Your Perfect Real LIVE '26

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Improvement Movement – Your Perfect Real LIVE '26

In 6 days · Oct 30 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Billing a show as a specific one-off rather than a tour stop usually means somebody has built something for the night that will not exist again, and those are reliably the better tickets. Whatever the staging turns out to be, the underlying material sits in the melodic, slightly theatrical end of guitar music, and the audience for it is local and invested enough to turn out on the Friday before Halloween when the whole city has other options. That competition is the interesting part; a room that fills anyway on a night like that is a room full of people who chose it deliberately. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall, wood floors, balcony. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. One-night productions are how bands at this scale make a case for themselves, and the people who show up are the ones who already believed it.

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Avengers: Doomsday — Opening Night

Dec 17 – Dec 18, 2026 AMC Mission Valley 20, 1640 Camino…

There is a half-second of dead silence in a packed theater right before something enormous lands, and then a sound five hundred people make at once that does not exist anywhere else on earth. Those two seconds are the entire reason to leave your house. You cannot download them. Opening night of an Avengers picture is its own category of evening. Years of setup arrive simultaneously, and the room's reaction becomes part of what the movie actually is — the gasp, the swearing two rows back, the guy who claps alone and is immediately joined by everyone. Watch it on a laptop in three months and you are watching a different film. Book a premium format early. This was built for the largest screen you can find, in Mission Valley or anywhere else. Send this to whoever sat beside you for the last one. You already know the name. Ask them now, before the good seats go.

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In 7 days · Oct 31 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Halloween in this city is not really about costumes for a certain crowd; it is about the one night when dressing the way you already want to dress requires no explanation. Music built out of drum machines, French-accented vocals and synth lines that sound like a film score to a movie nobody made is the natural soundtrack to that, and this project has been supplying it since the height of the last synth revival. The producer behind it has an unmistakable signature — everything drenched, nothing rushed. Live it is more physical than the records suggest and the room tends to arrive dressed. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall, wood floors, balcony above, a late door. Music at 8:30 PM at 104 N Avenue 56 on Halloween night. The eastside goth and synth crowd treats this particular night as an annual meeting, and it looks like one.

Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes 2026 — New York, NY

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Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes 2026 — New York, NY

In 11 days · Nov 4 $50+ Radio City Music Hall, 1260 6th Av…

Thirty-six women breathe as one body and something in you stands at attention too. The kick line begins and the arithmetic of it — 36 legs, one sound, one beat, zero margin — bypasses your brain entirely and goes straight to the part of you that believes in things. The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes returns to Radio City Music Hall for the largest production in the show’s 93-year history: 230 scheduled performances from November 4 through January 4, ten show-stopping Rockettes numbers, and the iconic Parade of the Wooden Soldiers — performed every year since 1933, red-and-white soldiers executing military-precision choreography before their famous falling-dominoes finale. The 2026 season marks a new performance record for the Music Hall, with more shows than any year since the Christmas Spectacular debuted. If you are the kind of person who tears up at the first note of “O Holy Night” in a room full of strangers, this show was built for you. If you think holiday spectacles are corny and overpriced, this is the one that changes minds — not because it avoids sentimentality, but because it earns every second of it. The Rockettes are not a nostalgia act. They are 36 of the most technically precise dancers working today, performing at a synchronization level that professional sports teams study. First-timers are routinely stunned by the scale: the 90-minute runtime with no intermission feels like 30 minutes, and the stage effects — a full-size double-decker bus, indoor snowfall, a living Nativity with live camels — are architecture, not gimmicks. Arrive at least an hour early. Late entry is not permitted, and the walk through Rockefeller Center in November is half the experience. First Mezzanine center gives the best full-stage view — the kick line hits differently when you see all 36 at once. Orchestra center rows F through N put you at eye level with the precision footwork. Tickets start at $50 at the box office, $55 online through Ticketmaster or rockettes.com. Weekday matinees are the value play. Dress festive, wear comfortable shoes, eat before you go. Radio City Music Hall is the largest indoor theater in the world, and the Christmas Spectacular is its reason for existing. Every year, more than a million people walk through those Art Deco doors and sit in the dark with strangers and come out feeling like they belong to the same season. That is not a show. That is a civic ritual, and it runs from November through the first days of the new year because some things do not need to be new to be necessary.

Italo-Disco Horror Night - Argento's Deep Red

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Italo-Disco Horror Night - Argento's Deep Red

In 3 days · Oct 27 Vidiots at the Eagle Theatre, 4884…

Giallo and italo-disco came out of the same country in the same decade, and almost nobody thinks to put them in one room. Argento's 1975 picture is the one with the Goblin score, the murder glimpsed through a window by a man who cannot trust what he saw, and a colour palette that makes no logical sense and perfect emotional sense. A DJ spins italo before the film and again after it, so you dance, then you watch somebody get killed to what is essentially a prog-rock lullaby, then you dance again — and the second dance feels different, which is the joke and also the point. It screens in a restored Eagle Rock movie house that still runs 35mm and keeps a thirty-six seat microcinema down the hall. Doors open ninety minutes before the picture, because the first set is not a warm-up act. Horror obsessives and record collectors end up finding each other in the lobby, which is not something either scene planned on. Doors six, picture seven-thirty, Tuesday the 27th of October, at the old Eagle Theatre on Eagle Rock Blvd.

Godzilla Invades Little Tokyo 2026: Terror of Mechagodzilla with Tomoko Ai

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Godzilla Invades Little Tokyo 2026: Terror of Mechagodzilla with Tomoko Ai

In 8 days · Nov 1 $25 JANM Tateuchi Democracy Forum, 100…

The woman who played Katsura Mafune in 1975 is going to be sitting in a room on Central Avenue answering questions about it. If you know why that sentence matters, you already know whether you are going. Terror of Mechagodzilla was the last Godzilla film of the Showa era and the only one Ishiro Honda came back to direct at the end, which gives it a melancholy the rubber-suit reputation never accounts for. Tomoko Ai appears in person for a talk and Q&A afterward, then signs at the pop-up shop around the corner. Every ticket includes a B2 commemorative poster. The reason to come is less the film than the room: Little Tokyo's tokusatsu community is multigenerational, and the questions asked at these things are not about trivia. They are from people whose parents took them to these movies. JANM, 100 North Central Avenue. Doors noon, $25.

Star Wars Celebration 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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Star Wars Celebration 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Every day · Next Apr 1 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Fifty years ago a farm boy looked up at twin suns and a generation learned what longing sounds like. Star Wars Celebration returns to Los Angeles on April 1–4, 2027, to mark the 50th anniversary of the film that changed everything. This is the gathering where Lucasfilm pulls back the curtain — world premieres of upcoming projects, panels with the creators who are building the next chapters, first looks at footage that won't exist anywhere else for months. The show floor spans the LA Convention Center with walk-through exhibits, a cosplay showcase that draws the most ambitious builders on the planet, exclusive merchandise that sells out before lunch, and the collective energy of tens of thousands of people who all trace something essential about who they are back to that same opening crawl. The 50th anniversary makes this one different. Half a century of stories, characters, music, and moments that shaped how an entire culture thinks about heroism, redemption, and the distance between who you are and who you could be. Whether you've been here since 1977 or discovered it last year, Celebration is the room where every version of that journey is valid. What makes Star Wars Celebration unlike any other fan convention is that it is the only place where the future of the franchise is revealed first. Every major announcement — from The Mandalorian's debut trailer to Ahsoka's first footage to the reveal of new theatrical films — happened at Celebration before it happened anywhere else. The industry comes because Lucasfilm treats this room as the premiere venue. The fans come because they've been part of this story longer than most relationships in their lives. Expect four full days of programming: the headline showcase at the Honda Center (separate ticket tier), hundreds of panels across multiple stages, the Fan Stage where cosplayers and community creators take the spotlight, interactive experiences that put you inside the worlds of the saga, and the Artist Alley where illustrators who shaped the visual language of Star Wars sell original work. Four-day adult passes from $260.99. Children 4–12 from $105.99. Los Angeles Convention Center. April 1–4, 2027. The anniversary year has screenings and smaller gatherings running all through it, and the people in this room will be at those too.

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DESIRE w: Mothermary // Johnny Jewel

In 6 days · Oct 30 – Oct 31 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

The producer whose fingerprints are on most of the last fifteen years of cinematic synth music rarely appears on a bill under his own name, which is what makes this particular lineup worth the drive. Everything he touches sounds submerged — drum machines, French vocals, melodies that suggest a film that was never made. Adding a sibling duo whose work sits in the same humid territory turns it into a showcase for one specific aesthetic rather than a single set. The high desert at the end of October, cold outside, a wooden room with a patio, is an almost absurdly good setting for music this atmospheric. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, the night before Halloween. The synth and goth crowd treats this weekend out here as an annual pilgrimage, and the parking lot looks like it.

Lyrical Exchange Open Mic — Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center, North Park

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Lyrical Exchange Open Mic — Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center, North Park

Every Tuesday · Next Oct 27 Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center,…

Every Tuesday night in a North Park arts center, the mic goes live and the room fills with people who came to say something. Poets who have been carrying a verse in their pocket all week. Musicians who want to test a song on a crowd that actually listens. Comedians working out material that might be brilliant or might be a beautiful disaster. Nobody knows until the words leave their mouth. Lyrical Exchange is not a showcase — it is a conversation. The five-dollar cover keeps it intimate. The room at Queen Bee’s is small enough that you can feel the nervous energy of a first-timer three rows back, and the regulars treat newcomers like they belong because the whole point is that everyone does. The format rotates between spoken word, acoustic music, comedy, and whatever else walks through the door. This is the room where the city’s creative community shows up when they need to be heard, not applauded. Every Tuesday, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM. Five dollars at the door. Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center, 3925 Ohio St in North Park.

Silent Movie Mondays: The Headless Horseman (1922) — Balboa Theatre San Diego

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Silent Movie Mondays: The Headless Horseman (1922) — Balboa Theatre San Diego

Every Monday · Next Oct 26 Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave, Sa…

The rumble of 1,800 pipes waking up inside the walls is the first thing you hear. The Wonder Morton Theatre Organ at the Balboa Theatre is not a soundtrack. It is a living instrument the size of a room, hidden in a chamber above the stage, and when Ken Double sits down to play it the whole building becomes the speaker. The Headless Horseman is the 1922 silent film adaptation of Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” starring Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane — yes, that Will Rogers, before he became the most famous man in America. The film has not been widely screened in decades. You are watching it the way it was meant to be watched: in the dark, in a theater built in 1924, with a live organist scoring every gallop and every shadow in real time. This is the Season Three premiere of Silent Movie Mondays, a series that runs seven films through the fall. The crowd is a beautiful mix — film students, retirees who remember when every theater had an organ, couples on dates who wanted something that wasn’t a streaming algorithm. Monday, September 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM. Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101.

GRIM — La Jolla Playhouse World Premiere

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GRIM — La Jolla Playhouse World Premiere

Every day · Next Oct 27 2910 La Jolla Village Dr, La Jolla…

After 300,000 years on the clock, the Grim Reaper is finally done. The question is what happens when his daughter Diana discovers she would rather fall in love with life than carry on the family business. GRIM is a world premiere musical running at La Jolla Playhouse from October 27 through November 29 on the Mandell Weiss Theatre stage. It is irreverent, heartbreaking, and funny in the way only a show about death can be — because the people who made it clearly love being alive. The creative team has built something that feels like it was written for the person who ugly-cries at Pixar movies and then pretends they didn't. First look previews run October 27 through November 1, with the official opening on November 8. Performances run Tuesday through Sunday — the theatre is dark on Mondays. La Jolla Playhouse is the only authorized ticket seller. Subscriber packs of three or more shows start at $167 and include free parking and free exchanges. The Playhouse has premiered more than 30 productions that went on to Broadway, including Jersey Boys and Come From Away. GRIM is the kind of show you see before it leaves San Diego — and then tell people you were there first.

Vidiots — In the Eagle Film Series

Improvement Movement – Your Perfect Real LIVE '26

Avengers: Doomsday — Opening Night

Desire

Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes 2026 — New York, NY

Italo-Disco Horror Night - Argento's Deep Red

Godzilla Invades Little Tokyo 2026: Terror of Mechagodzilla with Tomoko Ai

Star Wars Celebration 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

DESIRE w: Mothermary // Johnny Jewel

Lyrical Exchange Open Mic — Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center, North Park

Silent Movie Mondays: The Headless Horseman (1922) — Balboa Theatre San Diego

GRIM — La Jolla Playhouse World Premiere

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