Temecula's off-road and dirt lifestyle community takes over The Promenade on June 27, 2026. OFF ROAD NIGHTS Dirt Lifestyle Expo is SoCal's dedicated gathering for the off-road, overlanding, and dirt lifestyle community — a full-day outdoor event running 1 PM to 9 PM at The Promenade Temecula (40820 Winchester Road, Temecula, CA 92591).
The ORN Expo brings together industry-leading vendors, cutting-edge off-road builds, and the kind of crowd that builds trails on weekends and lives in the desert on long weekends. Expect: a featured car show with off-road rigs from desert runners to overlanding builds, Freestyle Moto Shows, live music throughout the afternoon and evening, hands-on product demos from brands at the front edge of the dirt lifestyle space, and a full vendor floor covering gear, accessories, and builds.
Free admission for spectators. Pre-registration available for vehicle display at ornscene.com. Vendor applications open for booth spots and the car show. Contact: [email protected].
The 2026 edition returns with a new location at The Promenade — more room, better parking flow, and a main stage setup that works into the evening. The off-road community in the Temecula/Murrieta area is one of the most active in SoCal; this is the event where that community meets in person. Whether you're a weekend warrior with a lifted truck or building your first overland rig, the crowd at ORN is the crowd that actually does this stuff.
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Tomorrow· Jun 28
~$40
St. Paschal Baylon School Grounds,…
The hills above Thousand Oaks smell like summer on June 28 — wood smoke, caramelized onions, and something sweet from the dessert tent you'll tell yourself you'll skip. You won't. The Conejo Food and Wine Festival runs from 1:30 to 5:30 PM at St. Paschal Baylon School Grounds, 155 E Janss Rd, Thousand Oaks. Admission is roughly $40 and every dollar benefits local programs run by the community that puts this on every year.
Local restaurants bring their most crowd-pleasing dishes. The wine pour is generous. Live music runs through the whole afternoon. People come with their neighbors and leave with strangers they'll see at next year's edition — because that's what happens when a community event actually works. The setup is unpretentious in the best way: a tree-shaded fundraiser that's been feeding the same neighborhood for over a decade.
Dress for an outdoor afternoon — comfortable shoes, something breezy. Get there early enough to work through the food lineup before it runs out. The dessert table always runs out first. That's how you know it's good.
Tickets available on Eventbrite. Parking on-site at the school grounds. This one doesn't advertise hard. It doesn't need to — it fills on word of mouth alone, the same way it has every year since anyone can remember.
In 7 days· Jul 4 – Jul 5
Catch One, 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los A…
The Chiikawa fandom understood something about those characters before the merch got everywhere — the anxious, striving energy of three tiny creatures trying to be brave is the same emotional register you feel walking into a club for the first time at 22. A rave built around that energy is not an anime tie-in. It is the right room.
Catch One has been the Black-owned Pico Union venue at the center of Los Angeles club culture since 1973. Holding a Chiikawa rave there on July 4 weekend means the people who knew about this before the announcement are showing up to a place that has been holding rooms like this for half a century. Kawaii aesthetics, club music, decade-deep house lineage — the convergence is intentional.
You will recognize the people there because they read the same threads as you. They cried when Chiikawa cried. They are not here to be ironic about it. The room is for the fans who carried this fandom when it was still small.
Catch One Los Angeles, July 4 weekend. Doors and lineup details on the organizer page.
In 6 days· Jul 3
51.6
Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…
This is not a wrestling show with an anime theme. It is a convergence: Harajuku fashion aesthetics, anime character energy, live music, and genuine athletic competition fused into one arena experience.
Sukeban is Japan's premier female pro wrestling league — and its first-ever World Championship Fight arrives at Anime Expo 2026 on July 3rd at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The league brings rival girl gangs from Tokyo — the Harajuku Stars, Cherry Bomb Girls, and Vandals stables — fighting for a championship belt on the biggest stage in the league's history. Special appearances confirmed. Every match is a story arc. Every outfit is a character declaration.
The room this fills: anime fans who also watch wrestling. Sneakerheads who follow Harajuku drops. AEW and WWE fans who've been waiting for something that hits different — aesthetically, athletically, culturally. Sukeban occupies an intersection no other event touches: J-fashion, pro wrestling, anime convention, live performance. Ticketed separately from AX general admission to keep the room committed.
Entry requirements: valid Anime Expo credential (4-day or any 1-day pass) plus a separate Sukeban event ticket. GA Floor (standing): $51.60. Balcony A (seated): $101.60. VIP Ringside: $151.60. Tickets at leapevents.com — limited capacity.
In 7 days· Jul 4 – Jul 5
Academy LA, 6021 Hollywood Blvd, L…
Los Angeles has an unexpected World Cup tradition: part soccer watch party, part EDM rave, part cultural celebration. Copa Del Rave turns FIFA match days into full-scale events at Academy LA.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup Quarterfinals (July 4-5) bring Copa Del Rave to its peak intensity. Match nights pair live DJ sets from world-class talent — including Claude VonStroke, Ardalan, DJ Minx, and curator crews representing Afrobeats, Reggaeton, Haitian, and Brazilian musical communities — with live soccer on the big screen, multi-room sound, and the kind of crowd energy that only happens when your country is playing.
What makes Copa Del Rave different from a normal sports bar: the music is not background. The DJs set the emotional tempo of the match. When your team scores, the drop hits. The diaspora crews — Afrobeats To The World, Gasolina, Reggaeton Rave, Haitian Spotlight — turn each match into a cultural homecoming. Fans who have never been to a rave and ravers who have never watched soccer both belong here.
QF Watch Parties run July 4-5 at Academy LA (Hollywood). Tickets available at Academy LA and copadelrave.com. 21+. Doors open at 9pm.
In 7 days· Jul 4 – Jul 5
Moroccan Lounge, 901 E 1st St, Los…
The Moroccan Lounge in Downtown LA, July 4th, doors at 9pm. The SoCal anime rave circuit has adopted Waku Waku as its own, and this is the one that keeps coming back.
The format is earned simplicity. No panels, no cosplay contest, no vendor hall. Just the music, the crowd, the visuals, and the shared recognition of hearing a song you know from a show that meant something to you at a specific moment in your life. The anime rave format produces a specific emotional register: nostalgia and presence simultaneously. You are in a room of strangers who had the same childhood, and you are all finding that out at exactly the same time.
Waku Waku is worth attending for anyone in the SoCal anime community who has wanted to dance to anime music in a room that takes both seriously. The Moroccan Lounge is an ideal-size venue: large enough to feel like an event, small enough to feel like a community. Past editions have sold out. This one will too.
What to know: 21+ event. Arrive early; the venue does not have much room to absorb late arrivals once capacity is reached. The Moroccan Lounge is in Downtown LA accessible by Metro. Uber/Lyft drop-off is on Spring St. Dress is casual to cosplay. The setlist will hit the obvious choices and the deep cuts. Both kinds of recognition produce the same reaction.
July 4 is a calculated date: the holiday gives attendees a reason to be out late, and Los Angeles clears out enough on Independence Day that parking and transit are easier than usual. This is not an accident. The Waku Waku team knows their crowd.
The anime rave circuit is one of the most consistent dark social signals on Falkor: tight community, recurring format, word-of-mouth distribution, no traditional marketing. People who find this event find it because someone in their group already knew about it. That is what a Falkor event looks like.
Today· Jun 27
Free
31300 Rancho Community Way, Temecu…
Every year, Mission Hope fills a school parking lot in Temecula with classics, customs, exotics, and daily drivers — and every year, the community shows up. The Deuces Wild Charity Car Show & Poker Run is one of Temecula's most beloved annual car events: a free show that combines a scenic poker run through Temecula wine country with a full showfield, live music, vendors, and a 50/50 raffle, all in support of a food pantry that serves local children, families, and seniors.
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Venue: Rancho Christian School, 31300 Rancho Community Way, Temecula, CA 92592
Admission: Free and open to the public
The poker run takes participants through Temecula Valley backroads — wine-country stretches with mountain views that turn a morning drive into a destination. Back at Rancho Christian School, the car show runs alongside vendor booths, trophy presentations, and community programming organized by Mission Hope.
Car classes span everything from muscle cars and lowriders to trucks, motorcycles, and ratrod builds. Registration is open to all makes and models. The event atmosphere leans family-friendly and community-first — this is Temecula's car culture gathering for people who actually live here, not a corporate brand activation. Proceeds directly fund the Mission Hope food pantry serving Murrieta, Temecula, and surrounding areas.
Today· Jun 27 – Jun 28
Free admission
5099-4827 Newport Ave, San Diego, …
The Ocean Beach Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off returns to Newport Avenue for its 45th annual celebration in late June 2026, one of the most beloved neighborhood street fairs in San Diego. The fair transforms a ten-block stretch of OB's main commercial strip into an open-air community festival with live music, local vendors, food booths, artists, and the Chili Cook-Off competition that draws dozens of amateur and professional chili teams from across Southern California. The event draws over 100,000 visitors across the weekend and is produced entirely by the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association, keeping it rooted in the neighborhood it celebrates. Newport Avenue is lined with vintage shops, surf stores, restaurants, and galleries year-round — on Street Fair weekend it becomes a street party that captures the particular energy of OB: unpretentious, community-first, and genuinely fun. Live music stages run simultaneously at multiple blocks throughout the day. The Chili Cook-Off features judging by celebrity chefs and a public tasting component where visitors vote for their favorites. Hundreds of craft vendors and food booths set up along the avenue. Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach runs perpendicular to the Pacific Ocean, about five minutes from the beach on foot. Parking is limited — take the trolley to Old Town and connect via bus, or plan to walk from the beach lot. Admission is free. The fair runs from about 10 AM to 8 PM. This is the kind of neighborhood event that defines why people move to San Diego. Do not miss it.
OB Street Fair has been shutting down Newport Avenue every June since the 1970s. A full mile of vendors, live music on two stages, and the chili cook-off that draws entries from across San Diego and a crowd that takes the judging seriously. This is the event that reminds you why Ocean Beach exists. Bring cash, get there early for parking, and eat something before you get to the chili tent. Free admission. June 27-28.