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Everything at Avalon — including past events
Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival 2026
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Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival 2026
In 2 days · Oct 9 – Oct 11 Avalon Casino Ballroom, 1 Casino W…

An hour of open water is the best opening act anyone ever booked. You leave the mainland, the harbor drops behind you, and by the time the island comes up out of the haze you have stopped being a person with a commute. The ballroom is waiting at the other end. Art deco, round, about a thousand reserved seats, close enough to the players that the intimacy is real rather than claimed, with acoustics that make it one of the most beautiful rooms in California. Contemporary jazz has filled it every October since 1987, smooth jazz and R&B jazz and fusion across a full weekend twenty-six miles offshore. This one takes planning. Ferry seats sell out ahead of the festival and are booked separately, and the island's hotels and B and Bs fill just as fast, so everyone in that room decided months ago. That is exactly why it feels the way it does. Everybody there chose it twice. Send it to the person you would happily be stuck on a boat with.

LA Galaxy vs Portland Timbers at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs Portland Timbers at Dignity Health Sports Park
In 7 days · Oct 14 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

You hear them before you see them. A few hundred people from Portland, inside your building, singing continuously for ninety minutes to find out whether the home end can answer. That is the actual contest at this fixture, and it runs parallel to the one on the grass. Both of these clubs got to MLS early and helped build whatever the league turned into, and twenty years of that history means neither side has to be told what the other represents. By mid-October the table has almost finished sorting itself. The grass is worn down from summer, the evenings have cooled, and every point carries weight it did not carry in June — which is when a regular-season match starts feeling like something else entirely. Carson, under the lights, in the back half of the month. Bring the friend who claims soccer is boring. Sit them near the away end and say nothing.

LA Galaxy vs San Diego FC at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs San Diego FC at Dignity Health Sports Park
In 10 days · Oct 17 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

The away end is the tell. When a few thousand people drive up the freeway on a weeknight to stand in a corner of somebody else's building and be outnumbered on purpose, the fixture has stopped being a fixture. San Diego joined the league as an expansion side with immediate quality and a city that had waited its whole life, and Carson is where they have to prove it in front of people who would very much prefer they did not. The Galaxy hold five MLS Cups and thirty years of being the club everyone else in the region measured against. The early meetings set the tone — physical, fast, contested like both fan bases already understood exactly what losing would mean. Dignity Health Sports Park gets loud for this, and the traveling section arrives with something to settle. Make the drive with the friend who will lose their voice by halftime.

Petit Biscuit, Forester
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Petit Biscuit, Forester
In 10 days · Oct 17 – Oct 18 Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine St, Lo…

He made the track that broke him when he was fifteen years old, in a bedroom in Rouen, and it went around the world before he was old enough to get into most of the venues that were playing it. That fact sits underneath the whole project — this is music made by someone who learned to build rooms before he was allowed inside them. Mehdi Benjelloun writes melodic electronic music with actual songs in it, which puts him at odds with a scene organized around drops. The live show leans on that: guitar, live vocals, arrangements that breathe rather than build-release-build. Forester open, and the pairing is deliberate — both acts make music for the drive home rather than the peak of the night. The Hollywood room is a 1927 theatre with a balcony, which is a strange and good place to see this. The ceiling matters. Doors at ten on Saturday the seventeenth; the theatre on Vine runs until two.

LA Galaxy vs Austin FC at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs Austin FC at Dignity Health Sports Park
Oct 31, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

Late-season home matches are where a season quietly decides what it is going to be. Seeding is the entire argument now — one result here is the difference between hosting a playoff game and boarding a plane for one. Austin have grown into one of the most complete sides in the Western Conference since joining, so this is no soft closer to the calendar. The Galaxy's home record is a point of pride in Carson, and the supporters know exactly what is at stake: the Angel City Brigade and the Riot Squad will be fully activated, and the south end is one of the louder corners anywhere in the league. Every set piece gets read by people who have watched enough of these to know what it decides. Halloween weekend in Carson, with parking on-site and surrounding lots. Take the friend who has only ever watched soccer through a screen. Put them in the south end and say nothing.

Catalina Island Conservancy Trail Marathon 2026
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Catalina Island Conservancy Trail Marathon 2026
Nov 14, 2026 Avalon, Catalina Island, CA 90704

Halfway through the course, you run past bison. Actual American bison, on an island you can only reach by boat, standing there entirely unbothered while you try to remember what mile you are on. That is roughly the moment this stops being a trail marathon and becomes a story you will be telling for years. The route runs point to point across the interior, Two Harbors to Avalon, 26.2 miles of technical trail with serious climbing, through the bison range and the highlands and finally down into the harbor for the finish. These are trails otherwise open only to hikers. The island's ecology was shaped by thousands of years of isolation from the mainland, and running through it does not feel like anywhere on the mainland either. Registration fills fast, because California trail runners talk to each other and this is the race they talk about. Ferry passage is part of the entry. Send it to the runner who believes they have already done every SoCal race worth doing.

Catalina Island Avalon Triathlon 2026
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Catalina Island Avalon Triathlon 2026
Sep 19, 2026 Avalon, Catalina Island, CA 90704

The road you're pedaling has no cars on it, no exhaust, no honking - just the Pacific on one side and the hillside terrain of Catalina on the other, because the island's roads are closed to traffic. There is nowhere else in Southern California you can race like this. The Catalina Island Triathlon opens with an ocean swim in the clear water of Avalon Bay, moves to a bike leg through the coastal hills, and finishes with a run along Avalon's waterfront promenade. Sprint and Olympic distances suit different experience levels. Everyone travels over via Catalina Express ferry from Long Beach or San Pedro - the crossing and the island are part of the experience. Athletes who come the day before and stay overnight in Avalon get the full version: dinner in the casino district, a morning race, and a post-race celebration on the waterfront. Spectators can cheer from the Avalon waterfront without going anywhere near the course; the swim and run finishes are visible from the beachfront. Check catalinaislandtriathlon.com for registration, ferry logistics, and the race-day schedule.

LA Galaxy vs Colorado Rapids at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs Colorado Rapids at Dignity Health Sports Park
Sep 26, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

By the last weekend of September, a single point is the difference between a bye and a road trip, and everybody in the stands is doing that math in real time instead of watching the ball. Colorado has quietly become one of the more consistent sides in the conference, which is exactly why a fixture that looks routine on the schedule is not. The building feels different this late — sharper, quieter between chances, the crowd reading the clock in a way nobody bothers with in June. For a fan base that has watched this club lift five trophies, September is not about competing. It is about closing. Three points here keeps the good version of the season available. Dropping them starts a conversation nobody in Carson wants to have in October. Bring the friend who only turns up for playoff games. Tell them this is the night the playoff games get decided.

LA Galaxy vs Seattle Sounders at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs Seattle Sounders at Dignity Health Sports Park
Sep 12, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

The crowd is quieter before kickoff in September than it is in June, and considerably louder once the ball moves. That inversion tells you everything about what is at stake without anybody having to explain the table. Seattle has been the measuring stick of this league for most of its modern life, which is why beating them in the back half of a season says more to the conference than any run of points against anyone else. Late home matches are where seeding gets decided, and by the middle of September the bracket is close enough to touch. Carson on a warm evening, the stands full of people who have watched this rivalry curdle and reheat for years, everybody running the same permutations in their heads. Dignity Health Sports Park on Avalon Boulevard, a September evening. Take the friend who says nothing ever happens in soccer. Take them to this one specifically.

SuperMotocross World Championship Playoffs — Carson, CA
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SuperMotocross World Championship Playoffs — Carson, CA
Sep 19, 2026 Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 …

You feel the bikes in your sternum before you hear them, and once twenty-two of them drop the gate at the same instant, the sound stops being sound and becomes weather. The Playoffs are where the format turns brutal. The escalating points system means every moto counts double: a bad start is not recoverable, a mechanical failure ends a championship, and the entire crowd understands the math while it is happening. The track is a hybrid built to test supercross and motocross in a single afternoon, which strips out anyone who is only good at one. Jett Lawrence and Haiden Deegan defend against Eli Tomac, Chase Sexton, Ken Roczen and the rest of a field that ground through a whole season to get here. FanFest opens the morning wide — team access, riders, the kind of proximity other motorsports sell as a package. Get there early and stand near the fence. You will not go back to watching it on a screen.

LA Galaxy vs New England Revolution at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs New England Revolution at Dignity Health Sports Park
Sep 5, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

September changes what a home match is. Nothing on the fixture list says so, but everyone in the building plays and watches like the postseason already started, because functionally it has. New England arrive as one of the East's most organized sides — a team that defends in shape and punishes sloppiness — which turns this into a midfield chess match rather than a track meet. That is a specific pleasure if you like watching the game itself rather than waiting for a highlight, and Carson's pitch rewards technical quality. The table has mostly sorted itself by now. Contenders know who they are. Teams out of it are playing for seeding and pride, and the Galaxy are playing for a conference title in front of the fan base that helped build this league into a thing worth building. Come for the sprint to the end. It is the only time of year that checking the standings feels like taking a pulse.

LA Galaxy vs San Jose Earthquakes at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs San Jose Earthquakes at Dignity Health Sports Park
Aug 19, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

Some rivalries need explaining to a newcomer. This one does not — you can hear it inside the first ten minutes, in the noise the south end makes before anybody has touched the ball. Thirty years of shared history: championship defeats, playoff eliminations, careers made and unmade in single afternoons, and the kind of institutional memory that means even neutrals in the building understand this fixture is not last week's fixture. The visitors travel with one of the more committed away followings in the league, and Carson answers in kind — the Angel City Brigade and the Riot Squad going from kickoff and never really stopping, family sections filling out the rest of the bowl. Buy early, because the Clasico draws capacity and the seat you actually want is down in the supporters' end. Take the friend who says soccer is boring. Put them in the loud end and do not warn them first.

Tritonal
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Tritonal
Sep 26 – Sep 27, 2026 Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine St, Lo…

Melodic dance music gets dismissed as the soft option by people who have never watched a room of two thousand strangers sing a synth line back at a stage. There is nothing soft about that. It is closer to a hymn than anyone involved would admit. Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed have been at this since 2008, which in dance music is close to geologic time. They came up through the trance era, moved into progressive, and kept the thing that mattered — songs built to be sung rather than survived. The Hollywood room is a 1927 theatre with a balcony, and hearing this kind of material in a space designed for orchestras rather than sound systems does something odd and good to the low end. Doors at ten on Saturday the twenty-sixth of September, the theatre on Vine, running until two.

LA Galaxy vs St. Louis City SC at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs St. Louis City SC at Dignity Health Sports Park
Jul 22, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

Late July is when the MLS playoff picture stops being abstract - every match starts carrying real consequence, character gets revealed, and the teams worth following separate from the teams that simply show up. On July 22 the LA Galaxy come home to Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson to test themselves against it. The opponent is St. Louis City SC, the expansion club that announced itself immediately and became one of the more compelling teams in the Western Conference. St. Louis travels well and will bring a visible road contingent, but Carson is Galaxy territory and the home crowd knows it. Dignity Health Sports Park on a summer evening is one of the better live sports experiences in Southern California - the weather, the speed of play on the fast pitch, and a supporter culture that has matured into something genuinely distinct from any other MLS market. The Galaxy support is the longest-running in the league: the Angel City Brigade, the Riot Squad, and the LA Riot Squad have been in the stands since 1996, and the south-end section generates the kind of sustained noise that smaller clubs call once-a-season energy. Family sections are available throughout the lower bowl. Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, off the 405 and the 110. Parking is on-site and in surrounding lots. Metro is limited for this venue - driving or rideshare is recommended.

El Trafico 2026 — LA Galaxy vs LAFC
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El Trafico 2026 — LA Galaxy vs LAFC
Jul 17, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

The biggest rivalry in American soccer. Galaxy vs LAFC at Dignity Health Sports Park — El Trafico 2026 in a summer Friday night slot. The parking lot opens early, the Riot Squad has been planning for weeks, and the atmosphere is the closest thing to European derby culture that MLS produces. Two of the best teams in the Western Conference. One city. The stakes are always real because the bragging rights last until the next one.

LA Galaxy Star Wars Night — vs Houston Dynamo
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LA Galaxy Star Wars Night — vs Houston Dynamo
May 23, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson. May 24th, 2026. The LA Galaxy Star Wars Night against the Houston Dynamo is the version of an MLS match where the uniform and the narrative both arrive from a galaxy far away — limited-edition Star Wars jersey night, themed in-stadium elements, and professional soccer on the grass underneath it. Galaxy Star Wars nights have become events in their own right. The pregame energy carries the specific combination of sports anticipation and franchise fandom that produces something neither category generates alone. The jerseys are collectible — the limited edition versions that players wear during the match are the kind of item that surfaces at memorabilia shows years later with a story attached. Kids in full costume move through the same concourse as adult supporters who have been watching the Galaxy for years. The soccer itself is the anchor. The Dynamo are a legitimate Western Conference team; this is not a friendly or an exhibition. Professional MLS soccer at a proper stadium, with a crowd animated by the night's theme and the match's stakes simultaneously, is the kind of event that works whether you came primarily for the game or primarily for the galaxy. lagalaxy.com/starwars for tickets and the jersey program details. The themed sections are the move.

LA Galaxy vs Vancouver Whitecaps at Dignity Health Sports Park
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LA Galaxy vs Vancouver Whitecaps at Dignity Health Sports Park
May 2, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

There is a specific quality to early-season Galaxy home matches at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson that late-season play cannot replicate — the table is still wide open, every point carries outsized weight, and the crowd arrives with the particular energy of people who spent the offseason waiting. On May 2, the Galaxy open their home stretch against Vancouver Whitecaps, a Pacific Northwest club with a well-organized style and a loyal away section that will make noise. But Dignity Health Sports Park has a way of absorbing visiting energy and converting it: the sightlines are intimate for a professional soccer stadium, the pitch is fast, and the home supporters close enough to the touchline that they are felt by the players. The Galaxy spent this offseason with intentions — this is a club that believes it can win MLS Cup and will play with that conviction from the opening whistle of every home match. Southern California soccer has been ascending for a decade, and the Galaxy are still its marquee attraction. Arrive at dusk. Watch the sky over Carson go dark while the stadium lights take over. There are worse ways to spend a Saturday.

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San Diego FC vs Houston Dynamo at Snapdragon Stadium
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San Diego FC vs Houston Dynamo at Snapdragon Stadium
In 7 days · Oct 14 9449 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108

By October the arithmetic gets simple and cruel. Three weeks left, the bracket nearly set, and a home win is the difference between a favorable first-round draw and a road trip nobody wants. That changes the air inside Snapdragon this late in a season. The crowd is more focused, every chance gets examined twice, and everyone in the stands is quietly counting how few home matches are left. Houston arrives as the kind of Western Conference side that has always punched above its market, organized enough to take points anywhere, which is exactly the opponent you want when you are trying to learn what you actually are. The south end is the thing to watch. By now the supporters know each other by name and know every chant cold, and the noise has stopped being enthusiasm and turned into something accumulated. Trolley in and walk up with the crowd. Bring the friend who insists they do not follow soccer. Late autumn is where that argument goes to die.

Olafur Arnalds
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Olafur Arnalds
Nov 13, 2026 The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, L…

Some music you have only ever listened to alone. Headphones, late, usually on a night when something had gone wrong and you needed a room built by someone who understood without asking. It never occurred to you that several thousand other people were doing exactly the same thing. Olafur Arnalds writes for piano and strings and then runs it through electronics, which on paper sounds like a compromise and in practice sounds like weather. He built a pair of self-playing pianos, driven by software he wrote, that respond to what he plays live — so the instrument answers him on stage, and no two nights resolve the same way. The Wiltern is a 1931 art deco theatre with a painted ceiling. People go quiet in it without being asked, which is the correct and rare condition for this. Friday, November 13. Seven p.m. 3790 Wilshire Boulevard. The private thing turns out to have been a shared one the whole time.

Mark Guiliana BEAT MUSIC
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Mark Guiliana BEAT MUSIC
Dec 8, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Drummers who lead their own bands usually overplay, and the reason this one does not is that he spent years as the guy other people called when a record needed rhythm that sounded like a machine and breathed like a person — including a famous last album by an artist who wanted exactly that. Under his own name the project is a different animal: electronics, synths, and drumming that treats a groove as something to erode rather than repeat. It reads as jazz on paper and lands closer to electronic music in the room, which is why the crowd is split between conservatory players and people who came for the beats and did not know they were at a jazz show. Highland Park's upstairs hall has the ceiling height this needs. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Tuesday in December. The players who come to this one usually end up at each other's gigs around town for the rest of the month.

Los Angeles Pinball League — Monthly Tournament
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Los Angeles Pinball League — Monthly Tournament
Monthly · Next Oct 13 Various venues, Los Angeles, CA

Somewhere in this city tonight there is a back room where the pinball never stopped — machines everyone assumed died with the arcades, lined up, lit up, and played for blood by people who know each ruleset cold. You thought it was nostalgia. They kept it a sport. Once a month the league runs a real tournament: matchplay, a new opponent and a random machine every round, points stacking across the night. It is IFPA-sanctioned, but that is not why the regulars come. A good table is the most honest machine there is. It does not care who you are, only whether you can read the ball. Here is what outsiders never expect: this crowd wants you to get good. Show up knowing only how to keep a ball alive and someone ranked will lean over between rounds and show you where the safe nudge is, when to let it drain on purpose. Venues rotate. Check the league's Facebook group and the IFPA calendar for this month's location. All-ages at most stops, 21+ at the bars.

LoL Worlds 2026 — Play-In Stage (Los Angeles)
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LoL Worlds 2026 — Play-In Stage (Los Angeles)
In 8 days · Oct 15 – Oct 18 Riot Games Arena, 12181 Bluff Cree…

Every region sends its dark horses, and most of them go home in the first week. That is what makes the opening stage the most nervous, least predictable stretch of the whole tournament. The Play-In Stage is where teams that did not walk in with a guaranteed bracket spot have to earn one, on foreign soil, against opponents they have only ever studied on video. Nothing is safe and nobody is comfortable. Upsets that reshape the entire championship happen here, in front of a few hundred people, before the broadcast audience has fully tuned in. Riot Games Arena is the tightest, loudest room in North American esports — small enough that crowd noise reaches the stage, close enough to watch a player's posture change when a fight goes wrong. From inside that building it is a different sport. Riot Games Arena, 12181 Bluff Creek Dr, Playa Vista. October 15-18. Tickets through lolesports.com. If you have only ever watched it on stream, this is the one to go to.

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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