June 2024 events calendar for Los Angeles

LA Pride may have moved out of West Hollywood, but that hasn’t stopped the city from holding its own colorful Pride celebration. WeHo Pride will take place May 31 through June 2 in and around West Hollywood Park, with three days of music, a street fair and a parade.

The Roots headline this hip-hop fest at the Hollywood Bowl, which boasts the likes of Queen Latifah, Common, Digable Planets, Arrested Development, the Pharcyde and Black Sheep.

One of the biggest pride events in the country, L.A. Pride attracts thousands to a what had typically been a two-day fest and parade in West Hollywood—but is now located a bit to the east. The parade portion will step off in Hollywood while the music fest heads to the edge of Chinatown for L.A. Pride in the Park. The atmosphere is good-natured and raucous; local color is provided by divas, drag queens and DJs.

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As Coachella has become increasingly pop-friendly, promoter Goldenvoice has made it up to aging locals with more and more genre-focused music festivals with stellar lineups. The latest such case: No Values, a fest filled with punk legends you’re almost sure to find in Gen X’ers T-shirt drawer. The Original Misfits, Social Distortion, Iggy Pop, Turnstile, Bad Religion and Sublime top the lineup for the June 8 show at Fairplax in Pomona, with additional sets from the Dillinger Escape Plan, Power Trip, the Damned, Joyce Manor, Suicidal Tendencies, the Vandals, Black Flag, the Jesus Lizard, L7, the Dead Milkmen and more.

The L.A. Conservancy offers a delightful summer time machine in the form of classic films, screened inside Downtown’s grand old movie palaces throughout the month of June.

This year’s lineup includes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Seven Year Itch at the Orpheum on June 1, Bullitt  and Gaslight at the Los Angeles Theatre on June 8, and From Russia with Love and Mi Vida Loca at the Palace Theatre on June 15.

Most screenings include a special introduction and a post-film Q&A, and there are also ticket bundles that add in a proper theater tour.

This weekend-long concert will once again return to West Hollywood Park as part of WeHo Pride. Kylie Minogue, Janelle Monáe and Diplo headline this year’s fest with additional sets from Doechii, Ashnikko, Noah Cyrus, Trixie Mattel, Keke Palmer, Channel Tres, Yaeji, Big Freedia, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, VINCINT and more.

Musical-theater auteur Michael R. Jackson turns himself inside out in this thrilling show. Check out our five-star review from its New York run.

Talking Heads’ 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense is a flat-out musical and cinematic masterpiece, and last year’s 4K restoration dusted off the rock-doc for a whole new generation. Now, ahead of A24’s Blu-ray release of the film, you can catch a screening of it on June 4 at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre—where it was originally shot over four nights—with a Q&A led by Fred Armisen (who’s no stranger to the film) with the members of Talking Heads. David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison were all in attendance at a screening at Vidiots last year, and like that event, we wouldn’t expect the more or less broken up band to perform. But you will see Blondshell tackling “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel,” from the forthcoming Everyone’s Getting Involved tribute album.

The latest adventurous performance from the Industry, this two-in-one show simultaneously stages a 17th-century opera and a 20th-century sci-fi story on a rotating stage. Director Yuval Sharon’s six-years-in-the-making production connects the stories of Claudio Monteverdi’s 1643 Italian opera L’incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) with a world premiere production of W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1924 sci-fi short story The Comet; both unfold at the same time on a turntable that’s been split into two. The Industry has staged its pieces in cars and on a mountaintop; this time around, you’ll catch them at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, from June 14 through 23.

T-Pain curates and leads this celebration of Juneteenth and Black music at the Hollywood Bowl, with assistance from conductor Derrick Hodge and the Color of Noize Orchestra.