LA: Culture Alert Oct.2-7, 2017- Free
October 2017 Culture Alert › Happy October - It's officially Autumn! The outdoor concerts are (almost) gone and school's back in session. Listed here are more than almost 800 concerts, tours, lectures, readings, walks, plays, art openings, screenings, and a ton of festivals. This month we observe Columbus Day (or Indigenous Peoples Day), Oktoberfest, Halloween, & LA's newest holiday, CicLAvia. Annual favorites include Art Night & Art Walk in Pasadena, the Brewery Art Walk, Taste Of Soul on Crenshaw, & the fascinating Archives Bazaar at USC. Santa Monica offers the COAST Open Streets Festival, the 20-event Santa Monica Eats! series at SMPL, & outdoor movies on the glorious pier. There's also Taste of Encino, Gardena 's Heritage Festival & Street Fair, Thunderfest in Covina, P-22 Week, Music Box Steps Day, & early Day of the Dead events. October ends with a bang at the biggest street festival of all, Halloween in West Hollywood. ...