- Aloud Lecture Series at the Central Library (with happy hour before at Border Grill)  Downtown

- Armory Center for the Arts (for contemporary exhibitions) – Pasadena

- The Autry – in Griffith Park, Glendale

- Broad Stage performance – Santa Monica

- Casa 0101 - Boyle Heights

- California Plaza performance – Downtown

- Chinese American Museum, in the original Chinatown in El Pueblo - Downtown

- Contra-Tiempo Dance performance - various

- Disney Hall performance - Downtown

- The Eames House – Pacific Palisades

- East West Players performance - downtown
- Ford Amphitheatre performance – Hollywood

- The Gamble House - Pasadena

- Frank Gehry's first house - Santa Monica

- Getty Villa - Malibu

- Getty Center - Brentwood

- GRAMMY Museum - Downtown

- Greek Theater performance – in Griffith Park, Los Feliz

- The Griffith Observatory (at night to see the city in lights) – Los Feliz

- The Groundlings performance – West Hollywood

- Hammer Museum (with a stop at Napa Valley Grille before or after) - Westwood

- The Hollywood Bowl - Hollywood

- Japanese American National Museum - downtown

- The Museum of Jurassic Technology (where a chat with David Wilson is a must)  Culver City

- La Brea Tar Pits (for exploring or just sitting in the surrounding park and reading)  Mid-Wilshire

- LACMA (to see the Levitated Mass) – Mid-Wilshire

- LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes - downtown

- Levitt Pavilions free concerts - MacArthur Park in Mid-Wilshire and Pasadena

- Long Beach Opera – Long Beach

- Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella New Music Series - Downtown

- Lula Washington Dance Theatre performance - various
- Magic Castle - Hollywood

- Music Center’s Mariachi sing-along, Disco Dance Night, and Ukulele Christmas orchestra - Downtown

- Natural History Museum and Science Center (to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Becoming LA exhibit and the Rose Gardens) – Downtown

- Norton Simon Museum – Pasadena

- Pasadena Museum for California Art (for contemporary exhibitions) - Pasadena 

- Petersen Automotive Museum – Mid-Wilshire

- REDCAT Theater performance -Disney Hall, Downtown

- Siqueiros's America Tropical mural on Olvera Street (a story of radical politics, censorship, and the roots of the Chicano mural movement) - Downtown

- Skirball Cultural Center (to see Noah's Ark for kids) - Brentwood

- Velaslavasay Panorama - Downtown

- Watts Towers Art Center – Huntington Park/Compton