Christine N. Ziemba

Celebrate the first weekend of summer at an ocean festival. Swing dance outdoors. Close out Pride Month with movies and parties.

Celebrate Pride for the first time in the Santa Ynez Valley. Laugh along with Joel Kim Booster. Attend an immersive staged reading at the Valley Relics Museum. Watch a documentary on the late, great Leonard Cohen.

Commemorate Juneteenth — a day that marks the end of slavery in the U.S. Celebrate the dads in your life with cars, BBQ, or drag bingo. Listen to live music under the stars.

Celebrate California’s state parks this week. Dance and sing along with Baby Shark (doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo). Listen to a lecture and presentation by 2019 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Maureen Beck.

Party with Pride at SoCal celebrations. Learn WTF are NFTs at an all-day event. Learn about wines of ancient Persia. Check out an exhibition (and more events) dedicated to the iconic 1932 Ford and other hot rods.

Catch a show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Celebrate Pride with the Groundlings. Watch the classic Rashomon on the big screen. Relive the early aughts with the Backstreet Boys.

Celebrate Pride this weekend and all month long. Attend opening night at the Hollywood Bowl. Dance downtown or along with Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Learn all about electric vehicles.

Watch the heartwarming musical Come from Away. Learn about a Judy Baca mural in a new exhibit. Explore the bleakness of human nature on film. Catch Amos Lee in concert.

Commemorate Memorial Day Weekend at Fleet Week. Kick off summer with several pool parties. Attend Corgi Nationals racing. Watch flicks under the summer night sky.

Watch musicals created in a single day. Attend a pop-up magazine. Hear from Joe Swanberg about improvised moviemaking. Listen to the former US ambassador to Ukraine talk about her new memoir and the current political situation.

Party Off the 405. Eat your heart out at Eeeeeatscon. Take in Murakami’s first monograph exhibition. Attend AAPI Heritage Month Movie Night.

Catch Helado Negro performing live. Watch a free outdoor screening of Jurassic Park. Learn from Neil deGrasse Tyson. Listen to stories of 1960s L.A. through the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward.