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In 12 days· Oct 19
The Greek Theatre, 2700 N Vermont …
His voice sounds like it has been rained on. Not damaged — weathered, like the grain of something left outside long enough to stop pretending it was ever meant to be indoors. Dermot Kennedy turned busking on Grafton Street in Dublin into arena tours with a voice that sits somewhere between hymn and storm, and when he plays the Greek Theatre on a Monday in October, the open-air canyon will do what it does best: make everything sound like it matters more than it should.
The Weight of the Woods Tour follows his third album, and Kennedy brings Jonah Kagen as support — another voice built for rooms where people came to feel something and not talk about it. The Greek is the right venue for this. No roof. No walls behind the stage. Just the Griffith Park hillside going dark while a voice that started on a Dublin sidewalk fills a Los Angeles canyon.
If you know his music, you know it lives in the drive home after — the part where you do not turn on the radio because the silence still has his voice in it. If you do not know it yet, start with 'Outnumbered' and then buy the ticket. The order matters.
Monday, October 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM. The Greek Theatre, 2700 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
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Sixty years of stage, and the voice still hits like a fist wrapped in velvet. Tom Jones has outlived every era that tried to define him—the Vegas years, the TV years, the ironic comeback, the sincere comeback—and what remains is an artist who simply refuses to stop being extraordinary. The Come Gather Round Tour brings him to the Greek Theatre on a Monday night in late October, when the canyon air is cool and the hillside seats feel like they belong to you. At 86, Jones has earned the right to sing whatever he wants, and what he wants is a mix that spans from 'It's Not Unusual' to the raw, unadorned later albums that made critics fall in love all over again. The Greek is the perfect room for it: open sky, intimate enough to hear breath between notes, and a crowd that came because they chose to, not because someone was filming. This is the show you take a parent to. This is the show where three generations sit together and none of them are pretending. Monday, October 26 at 8:00 PM at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park. Bring someone who remembers when this voice first stopped them in their tracks.
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You stopped listening to 'It Must Have Been Love' on purpose years ago. Not because you forgot it — because you remember it too well. The opening bars land and you are sixteen again, or twelve, or whatever age you were when the radio was the entire world and Roxette was the sound of wanting something you could not name.
Forty years after their debut album, Per Gessle brings the catalog back to the Greek Theatre — 'The Look,' 'Listen to Your Heart,' 'Joyride' — songs that sold 80 million records and soundtracked a decade of first drives and slow dances and summers that lasted forever. Taylor Dayne opens alongside Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, which means the night starts in the late '80s and never really leaves.
The Greek Theatre on an October Monday is something specific: the canyon cooling down, the hills going dark behind the stage, and a crowd that does not need to look up the lyrics because every word is stored in a part of the brain that nothing else can reach. You will sing. You will not plan to. That is how it works with music you grew up inside of.
Monday, October 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM. The Greek Theatre, 2700 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
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There are bands you post about and bands you send to exactly one person. This is the second kind, and everyone in that crowd will have made the same private decision to be there.
The Seoul trio never tried to be loud. They built a jazz-tinged bedroom-pop sound on the bet that intimacy scales better than volume — 'seasons,' 'bad,' songs that got passed around like letters rather than promoted — and a generation of listeners proved them right by refusing to share them widely.
The Greek is the correct room for that. Open air, soft light coming through the trees, a few thousand people going quiet on purpose, swaying instead of screaming. Comfort music made briefly communal.
If a song of theirs lives on the playlist you only ever sent to one friend, this is the show you make plans with them for. Text them before you finish reading this.
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Some records only make sense when a few thousand people are moving in the same direction at once. Play 'Sungba' in headphones and you get a very good song. Play it outdoors in a bowl full of people who have been waiting for it and you get something closer to weather.
Asake got there by folding Yoruba street fuji and amapiano into Afrobeats until the result stopped being a genre and started being an instruction. Uncle Waffles opens the door wider, the Eswatini-born DJ who turned one clip into an entire movement, and the bill becomes a full night of the African dance music that has quietly taken over global pop. The Greek's open-air bowl under the trees is the right cathedral for it.
Griffith Park, a Sunday evening in September.
This is the show your cousin texts you about before the presale. Do not make them ask twice.
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A song finds you at exactly the right age and rewires everything — your taste, your posture, the way you walk into a room. Lily Allen did that for a generation of people who needed pop music that was smart and messy and honest all at once. She is back at the Greek Theatre, and the room is right for it.
Lily Allen Performs West End Girl is a full evening built around the songs that made her and the ones she has been making since. The Greek Theatre in Griffith Park is an outdoor amphitheater where the LA sky becomes part of the show — warm September air, eucalyptus, and 5,900 seats that feel like 500. The Greek has been hosting artists since 1930 and the acoustics are built into the hillside itself. She takes the stage at 8pm.
The Greek Theatre is at 2700 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Tickets are on Ticketmaster. Monday, September 21, 2026.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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