San Diego
Good, clean fun at this cavernous Gaslamp bar with dueling pianos. Talented players have an amazing repertoire, including classics, rock and more. We once…
Must-see entertainment in Southern California
San Diego
Live venue hosting a range of acts, local and international. Previous artists have included Ben Harper, BB King and Jimmy Cliff. Expect everything from…
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Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
Malibu & Pacific Palisades
Actor Will Geer (TV’s Grandpa Walton) founded this beloved open-air theater as a refuge for blacklisted actors like himself during the McCarthy years. The…
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Los Angeles
Professional football returns to LA after a 22-year hiatus. The Rams were the first NFL team in Southern California, starting in 1946, but unbelievably…
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Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles
Los Angeles
If you're expecting a stand-and-sing concert, you've got another thing coming. The 275-member GMCLA puts on full-on shows with singing, dancing, costumes…
Del Mar Racetrack & Fairgrounds
San Diego
Del Mar’s biggest draw during summer months was founded in 1937 by a prestigious group which included Bing Crosby. It’s worth trying to brave the crowds…
San Diego
Balboa Park’s Old Globe Theater dates from the 1935 Exposition, and in the 1970s the main stage was rebuilt à la 17th-century Globe in England, where…
San Diego
This elegant 1924 building began life as a vaudeville and movie theater, then presented Mexican films to a growing Latino audience in the 1930s before…
San Diego
This Gaslamp venue presents an eclectic lineup of concerts (some free), a good-mood-inducing Sunday Gospel brunch, raucous party nights and other events…
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Orange County
Hear ye, hear ye! All those who have sired knights-to-be and future princesses, gather ye clans and proceed forthwith for an evening-long medieval feast…
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Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center
Los Angeles
Grammy-nominated jazz singer and educator Barbara Morrison has sung with the likes of Ray Charles and Dizzy Gillespie and at jazz festivals worldwide, but…
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Santa Barbara
Built by Works Progress Administration (WPA) artisans during the 1930s Great Depression, this naturally beautiful outdoor stone amphitheater has ocean…
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Los Angeles
Founded by the late hard-bop drummer Billy Higgins, this place doesn’t serve food or drink, just good music from some of the best emerging talents in jazz…
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San Diego
Re-imagined colorful containers make up this new outdoor community space and stage in East Village, a short walk from Gas Lamp. Home to a coffee shop,…
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Santa Barbara
With over 40 beers on tap, pool tables and a video arcade (Skee-Ball!), this bowling alley near UCSB is good ol’ family fun. Call ahead to get on the wait…
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Los Angeles
Cinema complex in the heart of downtown Culver City, screening mainly new-release mainstream films. Parking validation is available for the Cardiff and…
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Los Angeles
What was originally an art-deco movie house is now a 317-seat theater used by the Center Theatre Group to stage oft-terrific new plays by fresh, up-and…
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Santa Barbara
Harking back to 1931, this Mission Revival–style movie palace has a Spanish courtyard and a star-spangled ceiling. It’s a drop-dead gorgeous place to…
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San Diego
This huge Native American–owned casino-hotel offers plenty of slots, blackjack and roulette. Entertainment includes stand-up acts in its comedy club, and…
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Los Angeles
The ‘Gang’ was founded in 1981 by Tim Robbins and other renegade UCLA acting-school grads. Robbins remains the artistic director and the company's daring,…
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Santa Barbara
One unpretentious brick room plus live music almost nightly equals Soho, upstairs inside a downtown office complex behind McDonald’s. Lineups range from…
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Greater Palm Springs
This intimate theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum has great acoustics and presents an eclectic schedule of films, lectures, theater, ballet and music…
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San Diego
Built in 1928, this landmark – and central Encinitas’ main venue – shows arthouse movies nightly and The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Fridays at midnight,…
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San Diego
In a kiosk next to Balboa Theatre, Arts Tix has discount tickets (up to half-price) for same-day evening or next-day matinee performances, and discounted…
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San Diego
Bands play most nights, and each night has a different happening: open mike, karaoke, comedy, cover bands for the Grateful Dead and Red Hot Chili Peppers,…
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Santa Barbara
This beautifully restored 1930s Spanish Moorish–style theater is home to the city’s symphony, ballet and opera, as well as touring Broadway shows and big…
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San Diego
This accomplished orchestra presents classical and family concerts at Jacobs Music Center. Look for summer concerts at Embarcadero Marina Park South.
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San Diego
Large country-and-western–style dance hall offering free early-evening line-dancing lessons, plus live music, mechanical bull-riding and a touch of rock…
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Santa Barbara
One of California’s oldest theaters (founded in 1873) presents modern dance, chamber music, jazz and world-music touring acts and stand-up comedy nights.
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San Diego
Performances and improv classes in Mission Hills and a regular 'whose line is it anyway' type show on Fridays and Saturdays (tickets from $18).
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San Diego
For contemporary plays and re-imagined classics and self-proclaimed 'provocative theater.'
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San Diego
San Diego's Major League Baseball team team plays in the handsome Petco Park stadium in the East Village. Tickets are usually available at the gate,…
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San Diego
Theater productions for children with shows including everything from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to The Wizard of Oz and…
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Greater Palm Springs
This video bar, nightclub and cafe in an old telephone exchange regales patrons with a rainbow of daily drinks specials plus events such as Sunday Disco…
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San Diego
Bands from Smashing Pumpkins to Death Cab for Cutie all rocked the Casbah on their way up the charts and it’s still a good place to catch tomorrow’s…
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San Diego
This unique venue screens mostly classic American films in the open air in Mission Hills; during winter months the area is covered and the patio heated.
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Los Angeles
A 15-theater multiplex booking in blockbusters most of the year, and home of the Pan African Film Festival.
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San Diego
Situated in the Gaslamp Quarter, Horton Grant shows popular musicals and other Broadway-style productions.
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San Diego
PB’s main venue for live music books a solid lineup of rock, karaoke and sometimes comedy.
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