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Every weekend through May 17, the Santa Fe Dam recreation area becomes the sixteenth century. Jousters on actual horses. Archery ranges. Spear throwing. Bird shows. Pub crawls with theme weekends. Over 200,000 people attend every season — if you show up in costume, you belong here. Voted the number one family-friendly Renaissance Faire in the country. Ten in the morning. Seven at night. Irwindale, CA.
WonderCon fills the Anaheim Convention Center with comics, sci-fi, fantasy, film, and the cosplay community that doesn't need a San Diego hotel room to have the time of their lives. Panels from top creators, artist alley discoveries, and a dealer's floor that takes hours to properly explore.
The longest-running Renaissance faire in America. Eight weekends of jousting, turkey legs, period costumes, ale, and performances. The crowd is 60% costumed on a regular weekend. Anime fans, LARP players, cosplayers, and history nerds all coexist peacefully because everyone's too happy to argue. Runs every weekend April through May. This is the one.
Three people stand up and talk about the thing they are most obsessed with. Past topics: why mantis shrimp see colors humans can't, the hidden economics of professional wrestling, deep-sea bioluminescence, and the Soviet space dog program. Bar open the whole time. 7PM, $5–$8 at the door. Kensington Club. One of SD's best-kept secrets.
Lucha libre wrestling and burlesque in downtown Los Angeles. Founded in 2002, Lucha VaVOOM is the show that operates in its own genre — masked wrestlers, aerial acts, Guinness record-holding hula hoopers, and burlesque performers from around the world, all in one night at the Regent Theater. Rita's version has moved here from the Mayan. Twenty-one and over. Doors at 8. Saturday night. Forty-one dollars and up. This is the show people describe to friends who have never heard of it and then drag them to immediately.
Big Boys Comedy Fiesta at Terrace Theater - Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach on May 5, 2026: the show that exists because stand-up only fully works in the room, where the laugh is real and the awkward pauses are part of the performance. Big Boys Comedy Fiesta performs at Terrace Theater - Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach on May 5, 2026. Stand-up comedy only fully exists in the room where it happens — the recording is always an approximation.
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Hamburger Mary's - Long Beach in Long Beach on May 6, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. Drag Show: "Wild Wednesdays" @ Hamburger Mary's Lo performs at Hamburger Mary's - Long Beach in Long Beach on May 6, 2026. Drag performance is one of the few art forms that requires a live room to work — the energy between performer and crowd is the performance.
Terrace Theater - Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach on May 9, 2026: the kind of room where the set exists nowhere in the recorded catalog — made for this floor, this system, this night. The Sleeping Beauty performed by the International performs at Terrace Theater - Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach on May 9, 2026. The crowd at a show like this has been waiting for exactly this room — the specific night where the distance between stage and floor is close enough to matter.
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