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Get Out: Pirate Dinner Theater, Rock The Playground, LA Pride, Ojai Music Festival, Vegan Drive-Thru
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ARRRRRGH Nom: The Curse of Poseidon's Treasure, a Pirate's Dinner Adventure show in Buena Park is ready to shiver your digestive timbers with "astonishing displays of special effects, aerial artistry, swashbuckling sword play, music and romance," and a 4-course meal. "Watch as two explorers from present time cross paths with time-lost pirates from the past as the mystery of the Emerald Shark unfolds." Pricing, times & tickets here.
You're Playground Is A Wonderland: Support Wonderland's annual fundraiser to keep the school playground open to the entire community on Saturdays during the school year. Rock The Playground features music by Gwendolyn & the Good Time Gang, Future Dancing, Egg, Risers, Gary Calamar (KCRW DJ & Wonderland dad), Scott Wheatly, John Wayne Bro, and PanAm. Feed your face with food trucks, ice cream and slushies. Paint your face with, well, paint. 8510 Wonderland Ave. L.A., CA 90046,12:00-5:00 p.m., $10 (adults), $5 (kids)
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