Arts + Culture

LA Opera’s Akhnaten Returns: Philip Glass, Ancient Egypt, and a Stage-Filling Spectacle Downtown

On select nights between late February and March, Grand Avenue shifts time zones. Inside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, LA Opera revives Akhnaten, Philip Glass’s hypnotic opera about power, belief, and rupture—performed with the kind of scale and precision…

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The Program: Mark your calendar for these February 2026 SoCal Performances*

Plan your February 2026 cultural calendar with must-see performances across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, featuring the LA Phil, The Wallis, Segerstrom Center, San Diego Symphony, and more…

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The Program: Mark your calendar for these February 2026 SoCal Performances

Plan your February 2026 cultural calendar with must-see performances across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, featuring the LA Phil, The Wallis, Segerstrom Center, San Diego Symphony, and more…

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UnitedMasters Grammy Weekend Party 2026 Brings BigXthaPlug to the Hollywood Palladium

On Friday night, January 30, Grammy Weekend doesn’t wait for the awards to roll around. It starts early—inside the Hollywood Palladium—where UnitedMasters returns with its third annual Celebration of Independent Music, a free, ticketed event that has become a reliable pulse…

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Natural History Museum First Fridays 2026 Marks 20 Years of Museum Nightlife

On a Friday night in Exposition Park, the museum stays open—and Los Angeles shows up. What began two decades ago as a modest experiment in after-hours access has grown into one of the city’s most reliable rituals of cultural nightlife…

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An Auschwitz Album Story Screening in Los Angeles | Holocaust Museum LA

On February 1, the lights dim at AMC The Grove—not for escapism, but for memory. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Museum LA presents a screening of An Auschwitz Album Story, a documentary that centers on one…

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