Tons of Free Family Events This Week!

Plus El Segundo's very own NFL team is holding its kickoff rally

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Hello Gundo
July 17, 2025

Hello, Gundo 👋 

Nothing says “the summer’s flying by” like talking about the NFL, but training camp kicks off next week. And El Segundo’s local NFL team is celebrating.

There’s also plenty of other cool stuff around town this week, including an eBay Live trading card event and tons of great — and free — family events.

As always, if and when new events pop up or any details change, we’ll share them on the Hello Gundo Instagram.

-Sam & Angie Greenspan

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WHAT’S HAPPENIN’

Though we strive for 100% accuracy, as we all know too well: Schedules are subject to change. All event details are based on latest information on websites/social media. We’ve also called, DMed, and/or visited to confirm whenever possible.

Thursday, July 17th

Frida Fiesta - Paint & Sip
🎨 La Paz, all ages, 6:30-8:30 pm, $30-$44 or $52 at the door
Create a Frida Kahlo-style painting.

Farmer’s Market
🥕 Main Street, all ages, 3-7 pm, free

Wisely Wasted Stand-Up Comedy
🤣 Boardroom Brewery, 7:30 pm, $11

The Well Network: A Purpose-Driven Journey of Entrepreneurship
🙏 Love.Life, 5:30-8:30 pm, $75+
A talk with John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods Market.

Trivia Night with MC Ken
🧑‍🎓 Five Point Five Brewing, ages 21+, 7 pm, free

Summer Storytime
📙 Sycamore Park, ages 0-5 + caregivers, 10:30-11 am, free

Public skate at the Toyota Sports Performance Center
⛸️ Toyota Sports Performance Center, all ages, 2:30-5 pm, $11.50-$15.50

💵 Thursday food, drinks, and deals

  • Color Me Mine - Student discount with HS or college ID

  • Monthly Pint Night - Sauced BBQ from 5 pm, $5-$7 pints and you can keep the glass.

  • Scooter’s Jungle Open Play - 4-6 pm, $23 for child + 1 adult

  • Porterhouse - social hour 4-5:30 pm and late night from 8-9:30 pm with food and drink specials

  • 🚚 Food trucks and pop-ups: Lower Case Deli at Boardroom Brewery… PhillyPhilly at Sugar Monkey Brewing… Crepes at The Coffee Bar… Spread, Please! inside Two Guns

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Friday, July 18th

Beach Movie Night: Dog Man
🐶 👮 Dockweiler Youth Center, all ages, 8 pm, free
No tickets are required. Seating is first come, first served; bring a blanket or beach chair.

Basketball Madness
🏀 Rec Park Basketball Court, all ages, 12-2 pm, free

Live Music at The Tavern
🎸 The Tavern on Main, 8 pm, free
This week it’s “Classic rock for classic people” from the band Jukebox.

Karaoke Night
🎤 Standard Station, ages 21+, 9:30 pm

Sunset Sessions (chill house music)
🎧️ Sugar Monkey Brewing, 6-10 pm, free 

Mattel Summer Sale Event
🎎 Mattel Toy Store (333 Continental Blvd), all ages, 10 am-3 pm
Up to 70% off toys, offered only in El Segundo and nowhere else.

Public skate at the Toyota Sports Performance Center
⛸️ Toyota Sports Performance Center, all ages, 2:30-5 pm and 7:30-9:45 pm, $11.50-$15.50

💵 Friday food, drinks, and deals

  • Prime Pizza - free delivery this weekend with code SUMMER

  • Porterhouse - social hours 4-5:30 pm and 8-9:30 pm with food and drink specials

  • 🚚 Food trucks and pop-ups: Freddy’s Birria Tacos at Boardroom Brewery… Oso’s BBQ at Sugar Monkey Brewing… Spread, Please! inside Two Guns… Firepit Pizza at The Coffee Bar

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Saturday, July 19th

Chargers Training Camp Lightning Rally
⚡️ Sauced BBQ & Spirits, all ages, 7 pm, free
Kick off the El Segundo Los Angeles Chargers’ training camp with this opening rally. Live music, raffles, and more. Recommended to get there early.

Family Music Days at The Point
🎶 The Point, all ages, 12-3 pm, free
July’s family music day features music, arts & crafts, “backyard-style fun,” and treats.

El Segundo Blue Butterfly Viewing & Educational Visit
🦋 Dockweiler Youth Center, all ages, 10 am-12 pm, free
Learn about the endangered blue butterflies and view them with the El Segundo Butterfly Coalition. (This is the last one scheduled.)

eBay Live on Tour
🎴 Bullpen HQ, all ages, 11 am, free
A full day of “card fun, pack battles, live auctions, games, exclusive giveaways” and more.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
🇺🇸 Old Town Music Hall, all ages, 2:30 pm, $10-12
Screening of the 1939 Jimmy Stewart classic.

Stop Making Sense
🎵 Old Town Music Hall, all ages, 7 pm, $10-$12
Screening of the famous 1984 Talking Heads concert film. Includes David Byrne in his giant suit.

Dockweiler Beach Cleanup
🏖️ Dockweiler Tower 53, all ages, 10-12 pm, free

Mattel Summer Sale Event - Last Day
🎎 Mattel Toy Store (333 Continental Blvd), all ages, 10 am-3 pm
Up to 70% off toys, offered only in El Segundo and nowhere else.

Live Music at The Tavern
🎸 The Tavern on Main, 9 pm, free

Public skate at the Toyota Sports Performance Center
⛸️ Toyota Sports Performance Center, all ages, 1-3 pm and 7:30-9:45 pm, $11.50-$15.50

💵 Saturday food, drinks, and deals

  • The Tavern on Main - kids eat free for brunch, 9 am-2 pm

  • Eat Fantastic - kids eat free

  • The Kebab Shop - kids eat free

  • Prime Pizza - free delivery this weekend with code SUMMER

  • Porterhouse - social hour 8-9:30 pm with food and drink specials

  • 🚚 Food trucks and pop-ups: Magos Taquitos at Boardroom Brewery… breakfast burritos at The Coffee Bar… Spread, Please! inside Two Guns

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Sunday, July 20th

Coffee Run Club
🏃 The Coffee Bar, all ages, 7:30 am, free
The first meeting of the monthly Coffee Run Club is here. 3- and 5-mile options.

Riverboat Dixie Jazz Band
🎷 Old Town Music Hall, all ages, 2:30 pm, $25
Hear New Orleans Dixieland jazz live.

Live Music Sundays at The Tavern
🎸 The Tavern on Main, 4 pm, free

Public skate at the Toyota Sports Performance Center
⛸️ Toyota Sports Performance Center, all ages, 1-3 pm, $11.50-$15.50

💵 Sunday food, drinks, and deals

  • Eat Fantastic - kids eat free

  • The Kebab Shop - kids eat free

  • Prime Pizza - free delivery this weekend with code SUMMER

  • 🚚 Food trucks and pop-ups: Eta Peruvian BBQ at Boardroom Brewery… Spread, Please! inside Two Guns

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Monday, July 21st

Lucky Guess Trivia
🧑‍🎓 Sugar Monkey Brewing, ages 21+, 6:30-8:30 pm

Public skate at the Toyota Sports Performance Center
⛸️ Toyota Sports Performance Center, all ages, 2:30-5 pm, $11.50-$15.50

💵 Monday food, drinks, and deals

  • Rock & Brews - kids eat free

  • Scooter’s Jungle Open Play - 2:30-5:30 pm, $23 for child + 1 adult

  • Porterhouse - social hours 4-5:30 pm and 8-9:30 pm with food and drink specials

  • Color Me Mine - $5 studio fee for kids 5 and under

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Tuesday, July 22nd

Game Night
🎮️ Sugar Monkey Brewing, ages 21+, 3-9 pm, free
Games including board games, Xbox, ping pong, pool, darts, Pop-a-Shot, and more.

Trivia with Budds
🧑‍🎓 Brewport Tap House, ages 21+, 7 pm (last table reservation is at 6:30 pm)

Preschool Storytime
🧒 Public Library, ages 3-5 + adult, 10-10:30 am, free

Public skate at the Toyota Sports Performance Center
⛸️ Toyota Sports Performance Center, all ages, 2:30-5 pm, $11.50-$15.50

🌮 Tuesday food, drinks, and deals

  • Cinema West - $8 movies all day and night (save the fees by buying in person)

  • Topgolf - half off game play every Tuesday

  • Sauced - Game Night (discounted games including axe throwing)

  • G’s Il Capo dei Bar - Taco Tuesday specials

  • Standard Station - Taco Tuesday specials

  • The Tavern on Main - 2 for 1 burgers

  • Burger Lounge [outside the 🫧 warning] - kids eat free

  • Porterhouse - social hours 4-5:30 pm and 8-9:30 pm with food and drink specials

  • Rock & Brews - Taco Tuesday specials

  • 🎨 Color Me Mine - BOGO studio fee

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Wednesday, July 23rd

Summer Movie Nights at The Point: Clueless
🏝️ The Point, all ages, 8-10 pm, free

King Trivia
🧑‍🎓 Boardroom Brewery, ages 21+, 7 pm

Summer Movie Clubhouse - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 [outside the 🫧 warning]
🦔 Cinemark Playa Vista, 10:30 am, $1.75 per ticket

Ice Cream Party from the Rec & Parks Department
🍦 El Segundo City Hall, all ages, 12-2 pm, free

Wonderful Wednesdays
😃 Public Library, ages 5-10, 3-3:45 pm, free
Activities can include stories, crafts, or scavenger hunts.

Baby/Toddler Storytime
👶 Public Library, ages 0-3 + caregiver, 10-10:20 am or 10:30-10:50 am, free

Public skate at the Toyota Sports Performance Center
⛸️ Toyota Sports Performance Center, all ages, 2:30-5 pm, $11.50-$15.50

💵 Wednesday food, drinks, and deals

  • Sauced - Hump Day Wednesday (discounted games, all night happy hour)

  • G’s Il Capo dei Bar - Kids eat ½ off

  • The Slice & Pint - $2 off wine and chicken parm night

  • Rock & Brews - burger specials

  • Smashburger Manhattan Beach [outside the 🫧 warning] - kids eat free

  • Porterhouse - social hours 4-5:30 pm and 8-9:30 pm with food and drink specials

  • Color Me Mine - $5 studio fee after 5 pm

  • 🚚 Food trucks and pop-ups: Spread, Please! inside Two Guns

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Do you have an event, activity, or local deal you’d like to see included in a future newsletter? Respond to this email and let us know.

“THE SECOND” HALF

Gundo Scoop

Say “Cheers!” to the El Segundo High School Class of 1975
It’s 50th reunion weekend for the class of 1975 with events all weekend. And a lot of the rest of us saying, “Wait, how is 1975 fifty years ago?”

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New & Ongoing Deals

🎬️ CinemaWest’s Platinum Movie Rewards
- 2 tickets and concession discounts for $20/month.

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Save the Date

Events coming up, often where it’s wise to get your tickets sooner rather than later.

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Who are you and why are you doing this?

We’re Sam and Angie Greenspan, El Segundo residents and since 2016 and major El Segundo boosters ever since.

We also believed we were the right people to give this town its first newsletter.

Angie’s a realtor who works here in town and all over L.A. — so she’s plugged in to everything happening and has been a de facto source for local event info for years. Sam’s a writer and works in email marketing.

Please spread the word!

— Sam & Angie Greenspan

P.S. If you have any ideas or anything you want to see us include in this newsletter, reply to this email to let us know!