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October After Dark: The Los Angeles Guide
For true Angelenos, summer really begins in autumn. October is when temperatures soar during the day, the sun seems to linger over the city, and then nightfall arrives a little earlier, bringing cooler temperatures, a welcome reprieve from the heat, and the chance to finally enjoy the many fall events and things to do around Los Angeles. We’re starting the month with some of the best Halloween happenings in and around the city, followed by a selection of cultural, film, art, music, and food events worth making room for on your October calendar.
Courtesy of Carved at Descanso Gardens.
14 Things to Do in Los Angeles This Labor Day Weekend | September 2026
Labor Day Weekend is the unofficial farewell to summer, and Los Angeles knows how to make the most of it. From a night at the Hollywood Bowl and baseball at Dodger Stadium to an outdoor screening at Hollywood Forever and three days of beachside festivities in Hermosa, there are plenty of ways to stretch out the final long weekend of summer. Here are 14 of our favorite things to do around Los Angeles this Labor Day Weekend.
20 Outdoor Film Screenings Still to Come This Summer in Los Angeles | 2026
There is something unmistakably Los Angeles about watching a film outdoors on a summer evening. As the sun sets out west and the city lights begin to flicker on, parking lots become cinemas, rooftops become theaters, and historic landmarks become the backdrop for some of the most memorable movie nights of the year.
From Cinespia’s legendary screenings at Hollywood Forever Cemetery to Street Food Cinema’s community gatherings at The Autry and Los Angeles State Historic Park, outdoor movies have become one of the city’s most beloved summer traditions. The appeal is not simply the film itself, but the entire experience: arriving early with friends, spreading out a blanket, grabbing food from local vendors, and watching a familiar favorite beneath the stars.
Below check out our list of the the best outdoor movie screenings happening across Los Angeles through Labor Day.
Where to Watch Fourth of July Fireworks in Los Angeles | 2026
Los Angeles has never celebrated the Fourth of July in just one way. Across the region, fireworks rise over baseball stadiums, beaches, canyons, amusement parks, and historic neighborhoods, each offering its own distinctly Southern California interpretation of the holiday. Whether the evening calls for a concert beneath the stars, an oceanfront view, or a classic community gathering, these are some of the best places to watch fireworks throughout Los Angeles and beyond.
The Best Memorial Day Weekend Events & Things to Do in Los Angeles | May 2026
Courtesy of Topanga Days.
Memorial Day Weekend has officially arrived in Los Angeles, and with it comes the city’s first real taste of summer: blazing sunshine, warm nights, packed patios, live music drifting through the air, and a calendar stacked with reasons to stay out all day long. Whether it’s an evening of world-class jazz under the lights at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a blissfully bohemian escape into the canyon spirit of Topanga Days, or a food-filled stroll through MAINopoly in Santa Monica, the long weekend is overflowing with ways to celebrate the unofficial start of the season. From beach parties and outdoor movies to concerts, festivals, markets, and family-friendly happenings across the city, these are just a few of the standout events making this sunny May weekend one of the best times to be in Los Angeles.
Jazz at LACMA Announces Full Summer Schedule, Mark Your Calendar | 2026
On warm evenings beginning in May, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art becomes one of the city’s most inviting stages. Now in its 36th summer season, Jazz at LACMA returns, bringing together a rotating lineup of acclaimed musicians and rising talents for free, open-air performances in the heart of Los Angeles. Seating for the program is available in the museum’s welcome plaza on a first-come, first-served basis, though you’re welcome to picnic on the grass, too (you won’t really be able to see the show, but you’ll still hear it). As the sun dips behind the Urban Light installation and the crowd settles onto blankets and low chairs, the series captures a distinctly local rhythm. Jazz at LACMA art cultural ritual, part neighborhood gathering, and entirely emblematic of the city’s enduring love affair with live music under the sky. Expect it to draw an even bigger crowd this year, thanks to the newly opened David Geffen Galleries. So get there early before showtime at 6pm, grab a seat (unless you plan to dance), a glass of wine, and settle in to a wonderful and warm night of live jazz that stretches well past sunset.
10 Beautiful Places to Spend Easter in Los Angeles | April 2026
Virginia Robinson Gardens
Easter weekend in Los Angeles offers no shortage of ways to spend the day outdoors, whether that means walking the formal gardens at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, exploring the seasonal blooms and wooded paths at Descanso Gardens, or taking in the historic grounds and city views at Greystone Mansion and Gardens. These three are standouts, but they are only a starting point. From coastal brunch spots to public gardens and historic estates, there are plenty of options across the city to plan a relaxed and scenic Easter weekend for both children and adults.
Final Bow for Gustavo Dudamel Headlines Hollywood Bowl’s Expansive 2026 Season
The 2026 summer season at the Hollywood Bowl arrives with both celebration and transition at its core. Anchoring the lineup is a week in August honoring Gustavo Dudamel in his 17th and final season as Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, alongside a roster that stretches confidently across classical, jazz, hip-hop, pop, rock, film music and fireworks spectacles.
The season officially opens June 20 with “The Best of Broadway,” a curtain-raising evening devoted to musical theater’s most enduring songs. From there, the Bowl’s famously eclectic programming accelerates into a three-month survey of global sound.
View all of the Bowl’s summer season highlights below, and get your tickets here.
Love, Light & Concrete: Valentine’s Day for Los Angeles Architecture Lovers
Los Angeles is one of the rare cities where romance is written not just in gestures, but in architecture, in steel, stone, glass, and light. This Valentine’s Day, the most memorable dates don’t require prix-fixe menus or velvet ropes, but curiosity, conversation, and a shared love of beautiful spaces. From modernist landmarks and mid-century masterpieces to civic monuments and cultural institutions, most of these experiences are entirely free, proving that the city’s greatest luxury is access itself, to design, history, and moments that feel quietly, enduringly intimate. This Valentine’s Day, forget the predictable reservations and let the city’s most beautiful buildings do the seducing.
Palm Springs Modernism Week: Come for the Architecture, Stay for the Cocktails
Palm Springs Modernism Week is the annual festival when the desert becomes a curated, lived-in museum of mid-century modern design and a place where the era’s most enduring ideas still feel current and fresh. From February 12–22, 2026, the eleven-day festival brings together architecture lovers, design collectors, and anyone who enjoys a good cocktail party with a view, offering tours of architecturally significant homes, landmarks, and historic buildings that are rarely open to the public, along with lectures, exhibitions, films, and after-hours gatherings that keep the conversation going long after sunset. In the end, Modernism Week isn’t really about nostalgia; it’s about continuity. These homes, tours, and conversations prove that mid-century modernism was never meant to be precious or frozen in time. It was an ethos meant to be lived in, argued with, and occasionally the setting for a very good party. For eleven days each February, Modernism Week proves it still knows how to do all three. We’ve curated the festival’s highlights, must-see shows, and can’t-miss house tours to help you make the most of this year’s celebration. Discover the full lineup of Modernism Week events and secure your tickets here.
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Press Coverage
'Michael' Star Colman Domingo Splashes Out of SoCal Pad in TMZ
‘Euphoria’ Star Colman Domingo Just Listed His Midcentury SoCal Home in Robb Report
‘Euphoria’ Actor Colman Domingo Lists 1960s L.A.-Area House for $2 Million in Mansion Global
A Filmmaker’s 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival Home in L.A. Lists for $6 Million in Robb Report
This $1.2M California Midcentury House Looks Like It Came Straight Out of “Mad Men” in Dwell
An architect’s time capsule midcentury home is for sale in Glendale in The Spaces
The Cover is Not the Book | 5 Homes with Handsome Libraries in Extraordinary Living
A Glendale Three-Bedroom on a Secluded Dirt Road Where Not Much Has Changed Since 1968 in Curbed
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti seeks tenant for $5,000-a-month rental in Los Angeles Times
Delightful Spanish-style bungalow in Hollywood Hills asking $1.5M in Curbed LA
Here’s what $1.48M buys around LA in Curbed LA
Actor Josh Lucas Sells Eco-Friendly Home in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles Times
Actor Josh Lucas is on track to sell in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles Times
Actor Josh Lucas Lists Dazzling Eco-Friendly Home in Los Angeles in Cottages & Gardens
Look Inside: This L.A. Cottage Has a Secret Staircase—and a “Petite Tub” in Apartment Therapy
Here's What $649K Buys Around Los Angeles in Curbed LA
Sweet cottage hideaway in Eagle Rock asks $629K in Curbed LA
An art booster’s aerie lists in Hollywood Hills West at $2.348 million in Los Angeles Times
Longtime home of curator Lyn Kienholz hits the market for $2.4M in Curbed LA
Cool midcentury modern with pool asking $1.5M in Silver Lake in Curbed LA
‘Shazam!’ Director David F. Sandberg Buys Historic Hollywoodland Tudor in Variety
1920s Spanish villa for sale for $4.4M in Los Feliz in Curbed LA
Raise a Glass to These Six Home Cocktail Bars in The Art of Living
Gretchen Bonaduce seeks a buyer for Spanish roost in Los Feliz in LA Times
Sleek midcentury time capsule in the Cahuenga Pass asks $1M in Curbed LA
Snag This Hollywood Hills Midcentury Home For $1M in Dwell
For $18K, rent a midcentury modern dream home in the Hollywood Hills in Curbed LA
Home of the Week: Storybook abode stays rooted in Hollywood past in The Los Angeles Times
Fanciful storybook cottage in Beachwood Canyon seeks $1.7M in Curbed LA
Hot Property: Storybook home with fairy tale history in Fox LA
In Honor of Oscars Darling ‘La La Land,’ Eight Luxury Homes Near Griffith Park in Mansion Global
Hollywood Hills West redo adds a treehouse and zip-line to 1920s bungalow in The Los Angeles Times
Modernized 1920s bungalow in Laurel Canyon asking $1.1M in Curbed
Romantic 1920s Spanish Revival asking $1.6M in Whitley Heights in Curbed
Pedigreed Italianate Revival in Los Feliz lists for sale at $5 million in The Los Angeles Times
1922 Los Feliz mansion right across from Griffith Park lists for $4.997M in Curbed
Salma Hayek Is Renting Her Hollywood Hills Home for $11,000 a Month—Peek Inside in InStyle
Salma Hayek’s charming Hollywood home is up for rent in Today
Salma Hayek's Looking for a Hollywood Hills Renter in Zillow Porchlight
Mayor Eric Garcetti picks up an investment property in Mid-Wilshire in The Los Angeles Times
Mayor Garcetti sells Echo Park home for $1.7 million in The Eastsider LA
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Sells House to Talent Agency Head in Curbed LA
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Eco-Friendly Home Lists in The Wall Street Journal
Mayor Eric Garcetti lists Echo Park post-and-beam for $1.65 million in The Los Angeles Times
Onetime haunt of writer Nathanael West is for sale in the Hollywood Hills in The Los Angeles Times
1923 Beaux Art Classic Hollywood Hills Estate in Haute Residence
'Tomorrowland' Director Brad Bird Buys in Los Feliz in The Los Angeles Times
2417 Nottingham Avenue in Los Feliz in Take Sunset
Mayor Eric Garcetti Sells Silver Lake Home to M83's Anthony Gonzalez in The Hollywood Reporter
M83's Anthony Gonzalez Buys L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Home in Billboard
Hipster Mayor Garcetti Sells Silver Lake House to Guy From M83 in Curbed
Eric Garcetti puts Silver Lake house up for lease at $8,500 a month in The Los Angeles Times
Blake Griffin pays $9 million for new home in Pacific Palisades in The Los Angeles Times
Alhambra home where Norman Rockwell wed is for sale in The Los Angeles Times
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