• The Program: Mark your calendar for these December 2025 SoCal Performances*

    December in California brings a lineup of standout performances, from La Bohème and Handel’s Messiah to the LA Master Chorale’s Festival of Carols. A full slate of theater, orchestral work, and holiday traditions makes the month a rare stretch where culture becomes the centerpiece…

  • Pacific Wheel Thanksgiving Light Show Returns to Santa Monica Pier

    Just after sunset on the Santa Monica Pier, the Pacific Wheel cuts through the marine haze like a signal flare. For Thanksgiving week, the 90-foot Ferris wheel turns into a rotating canvas—174,000 LEDs programmed with precision, pushing out turkey silhouettes, harvest motifs, and the…

  • Santa Monica Muse

    Chef Fardad Khayami’s Muse in Malibu blends French finesse with California freshness. The 35-seat Art Deco gem offers dishes like cherry tomato tart, brioche with Bordier butter, and Santa Barbara black cod—plus desserts by his brother, Nikdad…

  • Mind-Boggling Brilliance

    Award-winning playwright Jake Broder’s UnRavelled explores the connection between composer Maurice Ravel and biologist Anne Adams—two artists linked by frontotemporal dementia. Playing Oct. 17–19 at The Wallis in Beverly Hills…

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    Five Holiday Experiences To Make Your Season Sparkle

    Discover the city’s top events, festive pop-ups, and happenings that make the City of Angels shine bright this winter. The holiday season means sparkling light dis-plays, seasonal markets, and fun community celebrations for all ages. Los Angeles comes alive during the holidays, offering unforgettable experiences…

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    Uncommonly Easy Calendar: A New Central Hub for Los Angeles Theater

    LONG-STANDING THEATER leaders and artists launch Theatre Commons LA (TCLA), a listings website serving the greater Los Angeles theater ecosystem. TheatreCommonsLA.org enables audiences to discover what’s playing on stages large and small without visiting dozens of theater websites. Listings can be filtered by date…

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    Lowly Devils, Lofty Music: Shakespeare’s Villains & Classical Mastery

    Patrick Page BroadStage explores Shakespeare’s greatest villains, followed by performances from Garrick Ohlsson and Richard O’Neill this January in Santa Monica…

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    The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: The Holiday Season Sets the Stage for Festive Programming

    IF YOU’VE BEEN to The Nutcracker and thought, “If you’ve seen one Nutcracker, you’ve seen them all,” kindly think again. The traditional version of the Tchaikovsky classic—about a little girl who receives a nutcracker on Christmas Eve and experiences all sorts of adventures when the…

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    Where to Celebrate Thanksgiving in Los Angeles 2025

    Thanksgiving Weekend in Los Angeles arrives with its own rhythm—lighter traffic, cooler evenings and a city full of people balancing family time with the impulse to get out and move. It’s the rare long weekend where neighborhoods feel open again, museum lines shrink and holiday…

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    The Program: Mark your calendar for these December 2025 SoCal Performances

    December in California brings a lineup of standout performances, from La Bohème and Handel’s Messiah to the LA Master Chorale’s Festival of Carols. A full slate of theater, orchestral work, and holiday traditions makes the month a rare stretch where culture becomes the centerpiece…

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    Los Angeles

    Weekend Roundup

    2 dogs dressed up for Thanksgiving

    November 27-30

    Looking for things to do in Los Angeles this Thanksgiving Weekend? Our list for this week includes Small Business Saturday at Old Pasadena, LA Auto Show 2025, Thanksgiving dinners, LA Turkey Trot, Fourth Fridays in Long Beach, The Nutcracker in Segerstrom Center, Paranormal Activity Live, How to Be a Guerrilla Girl, and more…

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    Orange County

    Weekend Roundup

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    November 27-30

    Looking for things to do in Orange County this weekend? This week’s roundup features Turkey Festivities, Winterfest OC Returns, ABT’s The Nutcracker at Segerstrom Center, Festival of Arts Presents “Light and Shadow: Value in Laguna”, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s Wild & Swingin’ Holiday Party, and more…

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    San Diego

    Weekend Roundup

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    November 27-30

    Looking for things to do in San Diego this weekend? Mark your calendar for the East Village Tree Lighting & Holiday Market, “Wild Holidays” at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, the “The Golden Girls” Christmas Experience pop-up, and more…

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