Convention & Expo Events
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San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Preview Night
San Diego Comic-Con International — the crown jewel of pop culture conventions. Film premieres, comics legends, gaming reveals, and 130,000 fans converging on the city. There is nothing else like it.
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90 days away
San Diego Comic-Con 2026
Preview Night is Wednesday the 22nd. The floor opens Thursday. For five days the San Diego Convention Center is the closest thing pop culture has to a world capital — panels from every major studio, six thousand exhibit hall booths, and the hallways where the real conversations happen. Badges for 2026 are sold out. The open registration lottery for 2027 runs in fall 2026. Put your name in.
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91 days away
San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Thursday
San Diego Comic-Con International — the crown jewel of pop culture conventions. Film premieres, comics legends, gaming reveals, and 130,000 fans converging on the city. There is nothing else like it.
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91 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 23, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 23, 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.
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92 days away
San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Friday
San Diego Comic-Con International — the crown jewel of pop culture conventions. Film premieres, comics legends, gaming reveals, and 130,000 fans converging on the city. There is nothing else like it.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Saturday
San Diego Comic-Con International — the crown jewel of pop culture conventions. Film premieres, comics legends, gaming reveals, and 130,000 fans converging on the city. There is nothing else like it.
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93 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 25, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 25, 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.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Sunday
San Diego Comic-Con International — the crown jewel of pop culture conventions. Film premieres, comics legends, gaming reveals, and 130,000 fans converging on the city. There is nothing else like it.
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95 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 27, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 27, 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.
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99 days away
Otakon 2026
Otakon returns to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center July 31 through August 2, 2026 — more than three decades as one of the East Coast's defining anime conventions and one of the oldest fan-run cons in the United States. Since 1994, Otakon has been the summer gathering for the anime community's most devoted: the fans who plan year-round, cosplay with detail that rivals museum exhibits, and travel from every state for exclusive English-language premieres, Japanese musical performances, and direct conversations with the voice actors and directors behind the series they love. Three days of programming spans the full convention center: panels, screenings, an artist's alley, dealer's hall, gaming tournaments, and evening concerts featuring Japanese musicians who often perform exclusively at Otakon and nowhere else on the American tour. Between 25,000 and 30,000 attendees make the pilgrimage each year — large enough to feel monumental, small enough that the community still recognizes itself. The fans attending their first con and the ones who have made the trip since the Clinton administration move through the same halls. That continuity is what no streaming service replicates.
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99 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 31, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on July 31, 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.
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100 days away
Anime California 2026
Anime California at the Long Beach Convention Center is the SoCal alternative for the anime fan who finds AX overwhelming — same categories (cosplay, panels, artist alley, gaming, Japanese culture) at a scale where you can actually see everything. August 1-2. An hour from San Diego, right on the Long Beach waterfront. Tickets from $35 at animecalifornia.com. The cosplay contest Saturday night is legitimately competitive.
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101 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 2, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 2, 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.
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105 days away
Agenda Show Long Beach 2026
Agenda is where streetwear, surf, skate, and action sports brands anchor their calendar — the trade show where the next season's aesthetic gets decided before it hits stores or feeds. Long Beach Convention Center in August: buyers, brand reps, and the designers building the vocabulary of board and street culture for 2027. Even if you're not buying, there's no better place in SoCal to see what's actually coming next.
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105 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 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. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 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.
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108 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 9, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 9, 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.
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111 days away
Nerd Nite San Diego — August Edition
Nerd Nite San Diego: your monthly reminder that the most interesting people in the city are not the loudest ones. Three talks from three different rabbit holes. Drinks included (sold separately).
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112 days away
RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas
Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 13, 2026: the kind of drag show where the performance is shaped by the audience response in real time, which means it exists exactly once. RuPaul's Drag Race LIVE! Las Vegas performs at Flamingo Showroom at Flamingo Las Vegas in Las Vegas on August 13, 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.