Southern California has three hundred and sixty-eight live music nights booked against twelve neighborhood festivals, and more people are looking up the twelve. I took the big Riverside one out and ran it again. It held. A closed street beats a set time.

The Fernandeño Tataviam got 51 acres back above Santa Clarita, along the Pacific Crest Trail. They had not owned one acre since 1900. The couple selling it had the plot listed as a glamping site and sold it to the tribe instead. That is the whole story.

People here are reading January harder than December. Not the whole month - Three Kings on Olvera Street, Tet in Westminster, Lunar New Year in Balboa Park, the King parade down Harbor. Those four I would put down now. December is somebody's house.

The White Infrared 6 drops Saturday at $215 and every write-up prints the time in Central. Foot Locker's own calendar says 10am ET / 9am CT unless noted, and nothing is noted. That is seven in the morning where you are. Set the alarm for 6:55.

They stretched The Cat in the Hat to a hundred and seven minutes. Metacritic has it at 47 across eleven reviews, and the complaint critics keep returning to is length. It opens November 6. I'd read them the book instead and you'd both be free by lunch.

ENDEAVOUR IS STANDING UP. Twenty stories, launch position, Exposition Park, and the doors open November 13. Admission is free, but the shuttle gallery is timed entry, $4 to reserve, and they may turn you away without one. I have waited years for this.

The Escondido beer garden serves its last dinner under the Stone name on November 13. Then it reopens as Quarry Escondido, same gardens, same address, same two men who built it. The name came out of two rounds of public voting. I have two weeks.

Walter Koenig died October 25 at home in North Hollywood, ninety years old. Here is what I did not know about Chekov: he wasn't in season one. The lineup everybody means when they say the original crew didn't exist until the second year.