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BuskerFest

Sascha Bos
Long Beach's Summer and Music (SAM) has been putting on free live shows all season, and tonight it's ending things with fan favorite BuskerFest. A tribute to the age-old tradition of street performances, BuskerFest is a music festival where the bands compete for your "money" (wooden nickels). The act with......
Shana Mabari's Illumetric lights up the night.; Credit: Eric Minh Swenson

5 Far-Out Things to do in L.A. This Week for $10 or Less

Sascha Bos
Kick off the first weekend of September with a beer – beer coaster, that is – at Friday's opening of "The Coaster Show," where artists show off their skills on the most utilitarian of objects. On Saturday, head down to Long Beach for BuskerFest, a free music show with an......
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The Great Summer Pokémon Festival

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Remember Pokémon? Released in 1996 for Game Boy, the Nintendo game featured lovable "pocket monsters," which you could catch, train, battle and trade. It spawned a TV series, movies, books and countless plush toys, and Pokémon is still going strong, even if some fans bemoan the expansion to 719 monsters......
Pocket monsters looking forward to The Great Summer Pokemon Festival.; Credit: Johnny JungleGuts

5 Eclectic Things to Do in L.A. This Week for $12 or Less

Sascha Bos
Didn't manage to sneak out of town this Labor Day weekend? Don't worry – there are enough interesting events this week to make your jet-setting friends almost jealous. On Saturday, take your pick of wacky art shows: Pokémon-themed (with a tournament!) or insect-made (really). Lovers of food, movies, and off-the-wall......
Kit Harrington at the Dapper Day Expo Spring 2019 at the Disneyland Resort; Credit: Star Foreman

A Secret Art Farm in Glassell Park

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It's 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday, and the sun has just risen over eastern Los Angeles. One by one, people ascend the stairs to Fritz Haeg's home, high in the hills of Glassell Park, overlooking the city. They are here for Haeg's latest project: the L.A. Seminary for Civic and......
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There's Something About Mary / The Princess Bride / Clueless

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Outdoor movies are one of our favorite things about summer in L.A. The warm summer air, the food trucks, the lack of bugs — where else are conditions so perfect? But with August coming to a close, such opportunities are running out. Tonight, three of this summer's biggest venues will......
An outdoor movie screening in Beverly Hills

5 Cinematic Things to Do in L.A. This Week — For Free

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There's no shortage of movie-centric events in L.A. (we are, after all, the home base of the Industry), but they're not always free and open to the public. This week is an exception, with four awesome movie events that are completely free! We've also got an art show, lest you......
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Tall Ships Festival L.A.

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Ahoy, mateys! Get thee to ye olde Port of Los Angeles for Tall Ships Festival L.A., a five-day boating festival that pays tribute to a time when ports such as ours welcomed not just shipping containers and the occasional cruise ship but also majestic vessels called "tall ships" — classic......
The giant rubber duck

5 Wacky Things to Do in L.A. This Week for $7 or Less

Sascha Bos
Summer's not over yet, and there are still plenty of wacky-fun things going on in the city. Like a giant rubber duck in the Port of Los Angeles, and the chance to wiggle around in the mud – historic adobe mud, that is – at Rancho Los Cerritos. Then there's......