Events on Central

Freudian Slips performs a clown-themed burlesque show at the Painted Lady, running two hours on a Sunday evening as part of the venue's Brews & Boos fall series. Painted Lady...

Three acts on one bill at Launchpad, mid-week and late, which tells you something about the crowd that shows up: people who actually want to be there. Launchpad's long narrow...

Authority Zero has been grinding the punk-reggae circuit for over two decades, and they still play like they have something to prove, which works in a room like Launchpad where the floor gets loud fast. Four bands on a Wednesday-night ticket means this starts early and moves quick, so arriving late risks missing the local...

Jordan Jonas leads this one-hour magic and occult experience at one of the corridor's more atmospheric spots, a bed-and-brew that already leans gothic without trying. The Brews & Boos series...

Painted Lady is screening The Craft (1996) as part of its Brews & Boos series, pairing the Halloween classic with bingo cards and the debut pour of a seasonal beer. The B&B format means the crowd skews more cozy-night-out than rowdy bar, which honestly suits a 1996 teen-witch movie better than a dive would. Tickets...

Seven local bands each take on a single artist for one night, running from System of a Down and Korn through Turnstile, My Chemical Romance, and the punk institution X, with a Hall and Oates set dropped in the middle of all that aggression. Launchpad's stage and PA are genuinely built for this kind of...

San Diego's almost monday plays the kind of bright, guitar-forward indie pop that sounds engineered for the moment a bad week finally ends. Sunshine Theater is a mid-size room that rewards getting there early, because the floor fills fast and the sightlines from the back are genuinely rough. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, so...

Jordan Jonas brings a Halloween-season show to Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, one of the more genuinely atmospheric stops on the corridor for this kind of event. The Bed & Brew format means you're in a converted historic property with actual character rather than a retrofitted bar, so the room earns the spooky-season framing...

Paranormal investigator Cody Polston breaks down the tools, methods, and theory behind ghost hunting in a hands-on master class format, part of Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series leading into Halloween weekend. The Painted Lady is a working bed and breakfast built into a historic Central Avenue property, which means the setting does some of...