Best Things to Do in Los Angeles This Week: Concerts, Exhibitions and Events
Los Angeles offers a packed late-summer calendar this week, with music, food, comedy and cultural events spread across the city. Echo Park Rising returns as a free, all-ages festival celebrating the Eastside, expanding to two days for the first time since the pandemic. Hundreds of local emerging bands and comedians, art installations and family activities will appear at venues and businesses throughout Echo Park. Downtown Los Angeles hosts Taqueando After Dark at Level 8, where food writer Bill Esparza brings taqueros together for a two-night festival. The event, presented with the Houston Brothers and chef Ray Garcia, uses all eight venues at the dining and nightlife destination and highlights regional taco specialties from Tijuana to Sinaloa. Part of the proceeds will support CIELO, a nonprofit serving Indigenous communities across Los Angeles. Lucha VaVoom de La Liz also returns to Downtown, reclaiming its longtime home at the Mayan after the theater reopened as a nightclub. The “Return to the Mayan Temple” edition combines masked Mexican wrestling, burlesque, aerial performances, live music, Aztec dancers and comedic commentary. In Hollywood, the UNO Social Club tour stops at No Vacancy, offering free entry, cocktails, prizes, merchandise and DJ sets, though space is limited. Other options include Golden Hour: Music in the Garden at the Norton Simon Museum, Spinning Sunset’s vinyl and memorabilia market on the Sunset Strip, and the final days of Dine L.A. Restaurant Week. The women-fronted Daisy Chain Fields festival takes place in nearby Irvine. This roundup is relevant to Los Angeles because it highlights accessible ways to experience the city’s local music, food, nightlife and neighborhood culture during the week.
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