It’s officially Awards Season here in LA, which means LA Today’s Golden Globes Red Carpet Gala & Pre-Party is coming up at Warwick in Hollywood this Saturday, 1/10, with complimentary caviar, lobster tail, DJs, and more A-List level surprises! Wanna feel like a celebrity? Enter for a chance to win a pair of VIP tickets!*

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• He builds his own instruments, wears a crown, and plays jazz like the laws of physics don’t apply. Chief Adjuah plays Lodge Room on Wednesday, 1/21. Wanna go for free?

• Girls Only Game Club’s free monthly bar trivia returns! Head to Baby Battista’s underneath Nico’s in Atwater Village next Wednesday, 1/14 for wine, cheese, prizes, and brainpower!

• Latin, R&B, samba, salsa & romantic vibes to move your heart, soul, and feet. Freddie Ravel brings sizzling, sensuous tunes to Bel-Air’s Vibrato Grill on Sunday, 2/22.

• Before Blink-182 and Green Day, there was Screeching Weasel. The snot-nosed legends of pop punk are back to shred, and your mom still wouldn’t approve. Catch 30+ years of riffs at The Observatory this September.

• Plus fresh announcements from Fred Armisen, The Polish Ambassador, Mount Eerie, and more!

DIDLA: 2025 IN REVIEW

2025 is over (phew), so we pulled the real receipts on how Los Angeles did the damn thing: the biggest events, the most-entered giveaways, the free stuff you sprinted for, and the moments that had the whole city like: “wait… did you just see that?”

• With over 31k page views on our site, what was the most popular event of the year?

• Which of our giveaways got the most entries, totaling over 3,000?

• What was the biggest festival for DoLA-ers in 2025?

• With over 25,000 pairs of tickets claimed on DoMORE in LA this year, which genre reigned supreme?

Only one way to find out…

NOW THAT THE RAIN HAS STOPPED

LOCALS ONLY

• Green Day, Good Charlotte, Twenty One Pilots, Cage The Elephant, and more of the greatest names in alt-rock assemble at the Kia Forum next Saturday, 1/17 for iHeartRadio ALTer EGO.

• Ring in the Year of the Horse with the Japanese American National Museum this Sunday, 1/11 at the 2026 Oshogatsu Family Festival, a free event with cultural performances, crafts, origami, and more activities for all ages!

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