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Staged along the convention center side of San Diego’s downtown waterfront, the appropriately named Wonderfront includes sets from Kaytranada, JID, Weezer, Dominic Fike, Beck, Mt. Joy, the Roots, Carly Rae Jepsen, T-Pain, Polo & Pan and more. You’ll find Wonderfront from May 10 to 12 at Embarcadero Marina Park North, Seaport Village and Ruocco Park.

Travel back to the 1920s with the Catalina Island Museum’s annual showcase of silent films. This year’s open-air screenings in Avalon include Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail and Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last.

After years on the Central Coast, the annual event has more recently made a move significantly closer to L.A., at Bakersfield’s Buena Vista Aquatic Recreational Area. Sure, it’s still a bit of a trek, but where else can you find a sustainable, vegetarian festival dedicated to equal parts music, food, art, yoga and wellness? Expect to do some serious soul-searching during this six-day retreat, all while immersing yourself in everything from a speaker series at the Lucent Temple of Consciousness to the old timey Grand Artique trading post. Skrillex, Labrinth, Lane 8, James Blake and M.I.A. top the 2024 lineup.

The wheel-based sports of the X Games feel intrinsically linked with Southern California, and the famous skateboarding and BMX competition even called L.A. its home for much of the aughts. In 2023, it returned to the area after a decade away (ignoring an audience-free edition during the pandemic), and in 2024 the X Games will once again come ot Ventura—with even more sports and music this time around.