LA’s Week of Culture & Fun | Venice Beach News

Venice Beach News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 27, 2026 · 1m

This week’s LA is packed with electrifying events: dive into fearless conversations on resisting authoritarianism at the Hammer Museum’s “How to Be a Dissident” panel, laugh till you cry at free SNL and Netflix comics in Eagle Rock, or flirt with fate at “Pitch-A-Friend” in Thousand Oaks. Music lovers? Tortoise and Kassa Overall headline Sunset Concerts at the Skirball, while Echo Park hosts a chess showdown and The Bourbon Room pulls off a mind-bending magic show. Art fans craft papier-mâché masks at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, while beachgoers unwind to “Hopper” under the stars at…