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Abbot Kinney First Fridays — September 2026

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Abbot Kinney First Fridays — September 2026

Sep 4, 2026 Free Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, Los Ang…

Abbot Kinney First Fridays runs the first Friday of every month from 5 to 10 PM on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Los Angeles. The street transforms into a pedestrian-friendly outdoor market and block party with all the boutiques, galleries, restaurants, and shops extended open late alongside food trucks and live street performances. Abbot Kinney is one of the few streets in LA that has maintained a genuine neighborhood identity through decades of gentrification pressure — independent retailers, working artists, local restaurants, and design studios have anchored the block since the 1980s. First Fridays is the moment when the community that sustains those businesses shows up together. The energy is different from a festival. There is no main stage and no single sponsor. Just a few hundred people moving between shops, plates of food from local trucks, and occasional live music spilling out of storefronts. It is LA neighborhood culture at its most accessible. Street parking fills early. Metro Expo Line to 26th/Bergamot and a short rideshare, or park in the surrounding Venice residential streets and walk in. The event is free.

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D&D Adventurers League — Game Empire SD

Sep 4, 2026 AleSmith Brewing Co., 9990 AleSmit…

AleSmith built its reputation on world-class craft ales and a taproom worth visiting on its own terms -- fire pits, ax throwing, golf simulators, a genuinely generous outdoor space. The Sustainable Night Market is what happens when 20-plus vendors who actually care about what they sell show up in that space every first Friday of the month. The belief behind it: a curated eco-conscious market inside a serious brewery is a Friday night worth choosing, not settling for. The vendors are vetted for actual sustainability practices -- zero-waste food, organic and locally sourced products, refillable goods, sustainable fashion with transparent supply chains. Not the performative kind. The kind where the vendor can tell you exactly where it came from. What to expect: the AleSmith full lineup of ales and lagers on tap, the outdoor areas lit up with fire pits, vendors arranged through the space where you can move at your own pace. The crowd that shows up is the actual eco-conscious San Diego community -- people who shop with intention and want the same from a Friday night out. Free to enter. Buy a beer if you want one. First Friday of every month, evening hours. Address: AleSmith Brewing Co., 9990 AleSmith Ct, San Diego, CA 92126 (Miramar area). Check @alesmith or alesmith.com for vendor announcements each month.

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Long Beach Comic Con 2026

Sep 5 – Sep 6, 2026 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

Long Beach Comic Con returns to the Long Beach Convention Center for its 2026 edition, one of Southern California's most respected regional comic and pop culture conventions. Running Saturday and Sunday September 5 and 6, LBCC brings together professional comic book artists, writers, collectors, and fans for a weekend of panels, signings, an exhibit hall, and an artist alley that consistently features some of the best independent comics talent on the West Coast. Unlike the massive scale of San Diego Comic-Con, Long Beach Comic Con is designed to be intimate enough to actually have real conversations with the creators whose work you love. The convention hall features original artwork, back-issue comics, collectibles, vinyl figures, and merchandise from across the comics and pop culture spectrum. Panels cover topics from creator craft to industry trends to fandom culture. Long Beach Comic Con has built a reputation for genuine quality and a welcoming atmosphere that makes it a favorite for both hardcore collectors and people bringing kids to their first convention. The Long Beach Convention Center is accessible by Metro Blue Line and is walking distance from the waterfront. Discount codes are currently active on the official website.

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Fiesta Hermosa 2026 — Labor Day Weekend

Sep 5 – Sep 7, 2026 Pier Plaza, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254

The Labor Day edition of Fiesta Hermosa returns to downtown Hermosa Beach's Pier Plaza and the Strand, closing out the official summer season with over 250 juried art and craft vendors, live music, local food trucks and restaurant vendors, and the full community energy of a South Bay beach festival done right. Running since 1971, Fiesta Hermosa's two annual editions (Memorial Day and Labor Day) are fixtures on the South Bay social calendar. The festival runs Saturday through Monday of Labor Day weekend across several blocks centered on Pier Plaza — walkable beach streets filled with visual art, handmade craft, photography, jewelry, ceramics, and specialty food. Admission to browse and explore is free. Live music stages run through the afternoon into early evening. Sunday typically draws the largest crowd; arrive mid-morning to browse vendors before the afternoon surge. Parking fills in the surrounding residential streets early — the structure at 8th and Hermosa Avenue is the most reliable option. Check fiestahermosa.net for confirmed vendor list, stage schedule, and Labor Day weekend hours.

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Front Row Card Show Pasadena 2026

Sep 5 – Sep 6, 2026 10.0 Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E …

Front Row Card Show Pasadena 2026 brings 770 tables of Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, sports cards, comics, and collectibles to the Pasadena Convention Center for two full days in September. The organizer started Front Row Card Shows because SoCal collectors deserved a show run by people who understand the difference between a vendor event and a community event. Professional grading services set up on the floor. Serious trades happen at the tables. The Saturday Trade Night (5-9 PM, free to enter) is built for the people who come back after dinner to finish negotiations they started in the afternoon. 770 tables is not a number you hear at most card shows. It means the show is large enough that you will find the Pokemon Scarlet/Violet sealed product you have been hunting AND the vintage sports card graded PSA 8 from 1985 — in the same room, on the same afternoon. The scale creates the serendipity. What to know before you go: GA tickets are 0 in advance, 5 at the door. Kids 10 and under are free. VIP Early Entry gets you in before the public and first access to vendor tables — worth it for anyone chasing specific inventory. Saturday Trade Night (5-9 PM) is free with GA admission. The Pasadena Convention Center has paid parking in the attached garage. Front Row Card Shows have been running since 2022. They are not the flashiest brand in the card show circuit — no celebrity appearances, no hype influencer booths. They are the show that serious collectors tell each other about, which is why it draws serious inventory.

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Melrose Trading Post — Sept 6

Sep 6, 2026 Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose …

Melrose Trading Post is one of Los Angeles's most beloved weekly outdoor markets — a Sunday institution at Fairfax High School in West Hollywood where vendors sell vintage clothing, handcrafted artisan goods, antique furniture, art, records, and one-of-a-kind objects to a crowd that treats the market as a social gathering as much as a shopping trip. The Melrose Trading Post has been running since 1995, which gives it something most markets cannot manufacture: a real community. The same vendors return week after week, the same customers show up every Sunday, and the collective accumulation of that repetition creates something that feels more like a neighborhood ritual than a commercial event. The quality is genuinely variable — treasure hunting is part of the culture — but the atmosphere is consistent: creative, laid-back, and decidedly LA. Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046 (parking lot). Every Sunday, year-round, from approximately 9 AM to 5 PM. $3 admission goes to benefit Fairfax High School programs. Parking limited in the lot — street parking on Melrose and Fairfax, or take the 217 bus. The market covers the school's full parking lot and can accommodate a few hours of serious exploration. Food trucks and vendors are on-site. Rain occasionally interrupts — check @melrosetradingpost for same-day status.

Smorgasburg Los Angeles — September 2026

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Smorgasburg Los Angeles — September 2026

Sep 6, 2026 Free admission ROW DTLA, 777 S Alameda St, Los An…

Smorgasburg Los Angeles runs every Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM at ROW DTLA, an open-air market and arts complex in the warehouse district south of the Arts District. The event is a West Coast outpost of the Brooklyn original — the largest weekly open-air food market in the country. On any given Sunday there are 50 to 80 food vendors, almost all of them small independent operations selling a single signature item. The variety is genuinely broad: Japanese milk bread, birria tacos, Nashville hot chicken, Hawaiian poke, Filipino ube desserts, Korean corn dogs, birria ramen, artisanal ice cream. Many vendors are pre-restaurant — this is where they test concepts before opening a brick-and-mortar. The complex also hosts design, vintage, and craft vendors alongside the food. Seating is spread across the open plaza. It operates rain or shine year-round. ROW DTLA is at 777 S Alameda St, Los Angeles. Parking is free on the property. Metro Gold Line Little Tokyo/Arts District station is a 10-minute walk. Admission is free. Budget $20–40 for food.

Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — September 08

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Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — September 08

Sep 8 – Sep 9, 2026 Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson St, …

Boomtown Brewery in downtown Los Angeles runs free trivia every Tuesday at 8 PM — a general knowledge quiz hosted in the Arts District taproom, drawing teams from the downtown LA creative community for a night of craft beer and competitive trivia with prizes for the winners. The format is a standard general knowledge quiz with themed rounds mixed in, hosted by a rotating set of trivia hosts who keep the energy live and the pace honest. The Boomtown space itself contributes to the event: an industrial-chic Arts District brewery with rotating food trucks, a full tap list of craft beers, and a neighborhood crowd that has adopted Tuesday trivia as a standing weekly commitment. Teams of up to six. Free to play. Prizes for the top finishers. The crowd is a mix of downtown creatives, brewery regulars, and competitive trivia teams who have been coming since the night launched. It is a casual event that people take seriously — which is exactly the right balance. Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Arts District, downtown LA. Every Tuesday at 8 PM. Free to play. Metro: Little Tokyo/Arts District station on the Gold Line, short walk. Street parking on Jackson St and the surrounding Arts District grid. Food trucks on-site most nights — check Boomtown's social media for the weekly truck announcement.

Original Lobster Festival 2026 – Fountain Valley

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Original Lobster Festival 2026 – Fountain Valley

Sep 11 – Sep 13, 2026 Fountain Valley Sports Park, Fount…

The Original Lobster Festival — the largest three-day lobster event on the West Coast — returns September 11–13, 2026 at Fountain Valley Sports Park. This event started at Rainbow Lagoon in Long Beach and has grown into an annual tradition for seafood lovers across Southern California, drawing tens of thousands of attendees over the weekend for whole Maine lobster, lobster rolls, lobster bisque, lobster mac and cheese, and every other variation the vendors can produce. Beyond the lobster, the festival features Southern California craft beers and wines, an artisan marketplace, live music across multiple stages, and carnival-style entertainment. The Fountain Valley Sports Park provides ample open space for the sprawling layout with plenty of room for the large weekend crowds this event reliably generates. A lobster meal here is significantly more affordable than restaurant pricing for comparable quality. People's Choice competitions for best lobster dish bring in serious competitors from regional restaurants. Tickets are available online in advance — strongly recommended as weekend sessions sell out consistently. Parking is plentiful at the sports park. Fountain Valley is centrally located in Orange County, about 15 minutes from Long Beach and 30 minutes from downtown Los Angeles via the 405.

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Pomona Fairplex Comic & Toy Expo 2026

Sep 12 – Sep 13, 2026 Paid admission — see fairplex.com Fairplex, 1101 W McKinley Ave, Pom…

The Pomona Fairplex Comic and Toy Expo is one of the longest-running collector shows in the Inland Empire, bringing together vintage comic book dealers, action figure vendors, model kit sellers, trading card specialists, and pop culture collectible merchants under the massive exhibition halls of the LA County Fairplex. Unlike the larger comic cons, this event is primarily a marketplace: rows of dealer tables loaded with back-issue comics from the Golden Age through the Modern Age, loose and carded action figures from the 1970s through the 2000s, vintage toys, prototype variants, and the kind of deep-catalog items that collectors spend years hunting online but prefer to find in person. Artists and indie publishers also table at the expo, providing a mix of collector commerce and creator community typical of shows in this format. The Fairplex at 1101 W McKinley Ave in Pomona provides ample climate-controlled exhibition space and free or low-cost parking. The show runs across a weekend with both days open to the public. Admission is typically $10-15 at the door. This is the show for serious collectors in the San Gabriel Valley, Inland Empire, and greater LA area who want depth over spectacle.

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Lowrider Super Show Los Angeles 2026

Sep 12, 2026 Varies Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

The Lowrider Super Show comes to the Los Angeles Convention Center for a full-day celebration of lowrider culture, custom car artistry, and the communities that built this uniquely American art form. This show brings together hundreds of meticulously built lowriders, custom trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles from throughout Southern California and beyond. The show floor features hydraulic competitions, airbrushed panels, candy paint displays, wire wheel collections, and interiors that represent decades of craft passed down through families and neighborhoods. This is not a static car show — hydraulic hoppers bounce on schedule, sound systems pound, and the culture is fully on display from open to close. The Los Angeles Convention Center provides 720,000 square feet of indoor show space, meaning no weather concerns and a truly immersive environment. Food vendors and merchandise booths line the show floor. Trophy presentations happen throughout the day across multiple categories, from Best Paint and Best Interior to Best Hydraulics and Hall of Fame. Tickets are available in advance at the door. If you have any interest in lowrider culture, custom car artistry, Chicano art, or the community history behind the scene, this show delivers it all in one place. Arrive early — parking is available in Convention Center structures on Pico Boulevard and Figueroa.

Sunset Cliffs Auto Show 2026 — Presented by Hodad's

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Sunset Cliffs Auto Show 2026 — Presented by Hodad's

Sep 12, 2026 Free The Inn at Sunset Cliffs, 1370 Sun…

Point Loma Avenue on a September morning, when the marine layer burns off and the cars start arriving. The Sunset Cliffs Auto Show has always understood where it is — a neighborhood show with one of the best backdrops in San Diego, five blocks from the water, steps from the kind of burger joint that's been here longer than most of the cars on display. The 2026 show takes place September 12 from 10 AM to 3 PM at The Inn at Sunset Cliffs on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. Presented by Hodad's Ocean Beach, it draws a mix of custom builds, classics, and community regulars — all eligible for vehicle awards and competing for the $1,000 Best in Show prize. The event includes a kids zone, vendor booths, raffles, and live music. Entry for spectators is free. Vehicle owners can enter for $30 (fire extinguisher required). The show is organized by local car clubs and benefits the Ocean Beach neighborhood through the San Diego Association of Car Clubs. September 12, 10 AM–3 PM. The Inn at Sunset Cliffs, 1370 Sunset Cliffs Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107.

Barrio Art Crawl San Diego — September 2026

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Barrio Art Crawl San Diego — September 2026

Sep 12, 2026 Logan Avenue, Barrio Logan, San Di…

Every second Saturday of the month, Barrio Logan transforms into San Diego's most vibrant outdoor arts district. The Barrio Art Crawl is a free, self-guided walking tour through the murals, studios, galleries, and creative spaces that define one of the city's oldest and most culturally rich neighborhoods. September's crawl is the season send-off edition — artists stay open later, food truck counts increase, and the live music spills into the evening. Expect open studio hours at working artist spaces along Logan Avenue, mural tours led by volunteer guides, printmaking demos, and local DJ sets echoing through courtyards. This is Barrio Logan at its most alive. The neighborhood's famous Chicano Park murals, part of the largest outdoor mural collection in the United States, form the backdrop for the entire walk. Galleries include contemporary Chicano art, photography, ceramics, textiles, and mixed media from both established and emerging SD artists. No start time, no wristband, no fee. The community opens its doors from 6pm to 10pm. Arrive by the 25th and Commercial trolley stop (MTS Blue Line) or park on National Avenue side streets. Dog-friendly. All ages. Date: Saturday, September 12, 2026. Time: 6pm to 10pm. Admission: FREE. Location: Logan Avenue corridor, Barrio Logan, San Diego, CA 92113.

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Melrose Trading Post — Sept 13

Sep 13, 2026 Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose …

Del Mar Wine + Food Festival — Grand Tasting 2026

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Del Mar Wine + Food Festival — Grand Tasting 2026

Sep 13, 2026 Del Mar Waterfront, Del Mar, CA 92…

The Del Mar Wine + Food Festival Grand Tasting brings together celebrity chefs, notable winemakers, local breweries, and spirits producers for a full-day tasting event on the Del Mar waterfront in September. This is the anchor event of the week-long Del Mar Wine + Food Festival — the day when the full production is on display. The format gives you access to hundreds of wines, craft beers, and spirits poured simultaneously across tasting stations, alongside food prepared by chefs ranging from local San Diego talent to national names. The waterfront location in Del Mar — one of the best-situated outdoor event spaces in Southern California — makes the logistics as good as the programming. Del Mar waterfront, Del Mar, CA 92014. Grand Tasting: September 13-14, 2026. Full festival: September 30 through October 4. Tickets for the Grand Tasting include a glass and all tastings. VIP access opens early. Check delmar.wine for the full lineup and ticket tiers. A portion of proceeds benefits Feeding San Diego. Driving is most practical — limited transit to Del Mar from downtown San Diego via the Coaster, which runs on weekends.

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Summer Arts Fest at Liberty Station

Sep 13, 2026 2820 Roosevelt Rd, San Diego, CA 9…

Arts District Liberty Station believed that a free outdoor concert series featuring actual San Diego musicians -- not corporate bookings, not national touring acts, not a sponsored stage -- could become the neighborhood ritual that marks the summer. The North Promenade is where they tested that belief. Three months, second Saturdays, 4 to 7pm, no ticket required. The concert series runs July through September. Each month brings a different local artist: Whitney Shay opens July with her blues-soul catalog, Kogee Soul Reprise led by vocalist Kori Gillis takes August, and Bambu Sound Exchange -- an analogue dance music collective -- closes out September. Three genuinely different feels across three months. The programming is not arbitrary. Liberty Station itself matters. The former Naval Training Center was converted into a walkable arts district -- galleries, studios, restaurants, and performance space that still feels like a neighborhood rather than a development. The North Promenade is the open plaza at the center of it. Summer concerts in this space feel earned, not produced. Show up when you want, stay as long as you want. Bring kids or a dog. Grab food from one of the nearby restaurants before or after. The crowd is Liberty Station regulars, NTC Park families, and Point Loma locals who have made this their July-through-September tradition. Address: 2820 Roosevelt Rd, San Diego, CA 92106. Free admission. More at artsdistrictlibertystation.org.

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626 Night Market San Diego 2026

Sep 16 – Sep 18, 2026 Mission Valley, San Diego, CA 92108

The 626 Night Market brings its Asian street food and culture format to San Diego on select weekends in fall 2026 (September-November). Modeled after the open-air night markets of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, the 626 Night Market fills an outdoor venue with 200+ food vendors, cultural performances, games, and community energy that doesn't have an exact equivalent anywhere else in Southern California. The original 626 Night Market in Arcadia has been running for over a decade and helped establish a template for Asian-American community gatherings that other markets have since copied — but the original formula holds because the vendor mix is genuinely curated and the turnout from the regional Asian-American community is real. San Diego editions draw visitors from Chula Vista, National City, Kearny Mesa, and across the metro who want what the market delivers: food, community, and a cultural gathering that doesn't require explanation or translation. Hours run Saturday and Sunday with sessions from around 4 PM to midnight. San Diego editions run multiple weekends in fall; check the 626 Night Market website for the current schedule of SD dates. General admission is free to enter; food purchases are per-item. Check the 626 Night Market website for the full San Diego date schedule.

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Front Row Card Show San Diego 2026

Sep 19 – Sep 20, 2026 10.0 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego,…

Someone decided San Diego collectors deserve better than a swap meet. That someone set up 425 tables of sports cards, comics, and collectibles inside Town and Country Resort, hired CGC to grade cards on-site and JSA to authenticate autographs, and built in $1,000 shopping spree giveaways and free swag bags for the first 200 through the door each day. This is Front Row Card Show — two days in September at one of San Diego's most accessible convention venues. The floor is the mix you would expect if you built the hobby from scratch: raw cards and graded slabs, vintage comics and modern sets, sports memorabilia alongside new releases. Dealers range from the serious slab hunters to the weekend box-breakers, and CGC grading with JSA autograph authentication available on the show floor means you are not just shopping — you are doing real hobby work. Trade Night runs Saturday evening from 5 PM to 9 PM for collectors who want to deal without the daytime crowd. The Sunday $1,000 shopping spree drawing is open to all attendees. If you have been waiting for a show that treats cards as serious collectibles and collectors as the point of the room, this is the one. Saturday and Sunday, September 19-20, 2026. VIP entry at 10 AM, general admission at 11 AM daily. General admission $10 in advance ($15 at door). VIP 2-day pass $25 in advance. Children 10 and under free with adult. Town and Country Resort, 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108.

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