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This is a traditional tablao format, which means flamenco as a close-quarters performance art rather than a stage spectacle, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist working in the kind of tight conversation that only happens when the audience is ten feet away. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is one of the few dedicated flamenco spaces...
Yungchen Lhamo is one of the most quietly commanding vocalists alive, a Tibetan singer whose a cappella and minimally accompanied performances have carried weight on stages from Carnegie Hall to small rooms like this one. FUSION | 708 is an intimate space, which works in the audience's favor here, the kind of room where there's...
The Wailers, the band that outlasted Bob Marley's death by four decades and kept touring with original members carrying the weight of that legacy, play the Journal Theatre for their 50 Years of Positive Vibrations run. The Journal is an intimate indoor theater, which means the sound stays tight and the sightlines are good, a...
Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The Box is a small, focused space that rewards audience participation and punishes phone distraction, so come ready to be present. Ticket link is live through...
This is the weekly house residency at SPACE AT 515, running tech house and deep house through the night on Central. The room runs late and the floor doesn't really find its footing until well after 10, so arriving right at door is optional. Start time is unconfirmed from the source, so check the ticket...
The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means the floor gets loud fast and the sightlines are genuinely good from anywhere, but get there before the openers finish if you want a comfortable...
The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual room on Central. The NHCC's courtyard holds a crowd well and the acoustics are better than you'd expect for an open-air setup, so a show...
A comedy debate show where being wrong is apparently the whole point, running just one hour on a Friday night at The Box Annex on Central. The Box tends to reward a small, game crowd, and a format built around argument works better when the room is willing to heckle back a little. Tickets are...
This is a late-night tribute DJ set at El Rey, running from 9:30 p.m. Friday deep into Saturday morning, which tells you everything about the crowd's intentions. El Rey's floor opens up well when a DJ has the room to themselves, and a set framed around a specific artist's influence tends to pull people who...