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Get the Led Out

Sep 26, 2026 $45+ Cerritos Center for the Performing…

There are Led Zeppelin tribute bands, and then there's Get the Led Out, the American Led Zeppelin, a six-piece so obsessive about recreating the studio recordings note-for-note that even die-hards leave stunned. This isn't a costume act; it's a loving, forensic reconstruction of the mightiest catalog in rock, from the acoustic delicacy of Going to California to the full thunder of Kashmir. Saturday, September 26, 2026, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Come for Whole Lotta Love played the way it sounds in your memory, bring the friend who still argues Zeppelin is the greatest band ever, and let a room full of believers take you back. If you never got to see the real thing, this is the closest you'll come. Turn it up and give yourself over.

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Spyro Gyra with Special EFX

Oct 2, 2026 $45+ Cerritos Center for the Performing…

Fifty years of making sophisticated good times sound effortless, which is the hardest thing in music to fake. Spyro Gyra is the jazz-fusion institution behind Morning Dance and a hundred sun-warmed grooves that helped define contemporary jazz as a genre. Paired with Special EFX featuring Chieli Minucci, it becomes a double bill for anyone who loves musicianship they can also sway to — intricate solos sitting inside an irresistible pocket. Smooth without ever going sleepy, virtuosic without going cold. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Dr. Friday, October 2. Bring the friend with genuinely good taste in music. This is the night that reminds both of you why a room full of players beats a playlist every time.

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The Phil Collins Story

Sep 27, 2026 $45+ Cerritos Center for the Performing…

Few catalogs are as secretly universal as Phil Collins': the drummer-turned-everyman whose Genesis epics and solo heartbreakers have been quietly living in everyone's head since the 1980s. The Phil Collins Story is a full-band tribute that honors all of it, from the drum-fill heard round the world in In the Air Tonight to the sunny ache of Against All Odds and the Motown swing of You Can't Hurry Love. Sunday, September 27, 2026, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Come for the songs you forgot you loved until the first note reminded you, bring the parent who wore out the vinyl, and prepare to be surprised by how many words you know. This is comfort-food nostalgia performed with real musicianship. Come feel it coming in the air tonight.

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Ghostbusters In Concert

Sep 24, 2026 $45+ Cerritos Center for the Performing…

Who you gonna call? Everybody, apparently, because there's a special magic to watching a movie you love on a giant screen while a live orchestra plays every note of the score in real time. Ghostbusters In Concert pairs the 1984 comedy classic with a full ensemble performing Elmer Bernstein's music and Ray Parker Jr.'s inescapable theme, and the effect is pure joy: the jokes land, the proton packs whir, and the whole room sings the chorus without a shred of irony. Thursday, September 24, 2026, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Bring the kids who've never seen it and the adults who've seen it fifty times. It's family-friendly, gorgeously performed, and a genuinely fresh way to experience a film you thought you knew by heart. Come get slimed, the classy way.

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Penn & Teller

Jul 15, 2026 18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos C…

The awkward pauses are part of the act — the laugh has to be real and the room has to be there for the whole thing to work, which is why the recording is always an approximation of the night rather than the night itself. Penn & Teller build a show that only fully exists in the room where it happens. Magic, comedy, and the specific tension of a live audience being fooled in real time — none of it survives a screen intact. The people who go are the ones who will remember it. Send it to the friend who has watched every special and still hasn't seen them live. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Cerritos, July 15, 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.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — Live in Concert with the San Diego Symphony

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — Live in Concert with the San Diego Symphony

Dec 12, 2026 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 124…

You already know the ending. You've seen Kevin outrun the Sticky Bandits a hundred times. You've memorized the face he makes at the concierge, the Plaza Hotel lobby, the way the pigeon lady turns out to be the bravest person in the whole movie. None of that matters, because you've never heard John Williams' score performed live twenty feet from your chair while the film plays on a screen the size of a building. The San Diego Symphony performs the complete Home Alone 2 score at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — outdoors, under the December sky, with the bay behind you and Williams' orchestral arrangements filling the kind of open air they were always meant to fill. The brass hits different when there's no ceiling. The strings hit different when you can see the cellist's bow. The moment Kevin walks through a snowy Central Park and the full orchestra swells beneath it — that's the moment you understand why people keep coming back to this format. You already knew the movie. You didn't know the music. This is a holiday tradition built for the person who watches Christmas movies year-round and the person dragged along by them. Both leave converted. One night only: Saturday, December 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM. The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 1245 Seventh Ave, San Diego.

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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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D&D Adventurers League — Game Empire SD

Every Thursday · Next Oct 8 Free / $5 suggested 5037 Shawline St, San Diego, CA 92…

You do not need a group, a character, or any idea what you are doing. That is the entire design. Drop in on a Thursday evening, pick up a pregenerated character sheet, and join a table — mid-campaign or at the start of something fresh. Dungeon Masters are provided. Dice are provided. Rules questions are not tolerated so much as encouraged. Tables sort by Tier, so a first-time player rolling their first d20 sits with other new characters instead of getting lost behind a party three levels deep. If you already have a D&D Beyond character in Adventurers League legal format, bring it — after tonight it is recognized at any AL table anywhere in the world, which is the quietly remarkable part of organized play. Game Empire SD, 5037 Shawline St, San Diego — a dedicated tabletop store with real event space and staff who know the rules. Parking on-site. Most sessions need no reservation; check the store calendar. The only bad session is the one you did not show up for.

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