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My Hero Academia in Concert

Sep 16, 2026 3790 Wilshire Blvd., The Wiltern, …

Some scores do not belong in earbuds. They were written for a room big enough to hold a full orchestra and everybody who ever wanted to say Plus Ultra out loud without having to explain themselves. Live, with the story unfolding and the strings arriving a half-beat before you remember what happens next, the music does what the show does to you and then keeps doing it long after. The room fills with people who quote the Symbol of Peace to each other and mean every word, which is the sort of crowd that makes an orchestral concert feel closer to a rally. All ages, and every single person needs a ticket regardless of age, which means the kids are in there too, and they are reliably the loudest. The Wiltern on Wilshire, doors in the evening, orchestra on stage. Take the person who made you watch it in the first place. You owe them this one.

"Weird Al" Yankovic: Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour

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"Weird Al" Yankovic: Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour

Sep 16, 2026 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222…

For a very specific kind of kid — the one who taped songs off the radio, read every liner note, and found the whole pop machine slightly absurd while loving it completely — he was the first artist who felt like he was in on the joke with you. Four decades later he is the best-selling comedy recording artist in history and a five-time Grammy winner, and somehow the show is still the most joyful, most absurdly over-produced thing you can buy a ticket to. The full version travels: costume changes, the accordion, parodies running from Michael Jackson to Taylor Swift, and fan favorites that have never once been played live. Outdoors on the bay at the Rady Shell, at the end of summer, with the water doing half the work. Bring the kid you were and the kids you have now. The ones who can still recite 'Amish Paradise' word for word cleared their calendar the day it was announced.

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Louder Than Life 2026 — Louisville, KY

Sep 17, 2026 Highland Festival Grounds at Kentu…

Somewhere in Louisville, a father and daughter are headbanging to the same riff — he has been waiting since 1988 for Iron Maiden's anniversary tour, she discovered My Chemical Romance through a video last summer — and Louder Than Life is the only festival in America where both of them feel like they belong in the same room. Louder Than Life returns to Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Expo Center September 17–20, 2026, with nearly 200 bands across seven stages in what has quietly become America's largest rock and metal festival. The 2026 lineup is stacked: Iron Maiden headlines Thursday as part of their 50th anniversary Run For Your Lives World Tour. My Chemical Romance takes Friday. Limp Bizkit owns Saturday with an undercard that includes one of the strongest all-female-fronted rock lineups ever assembled at a major US festival — Halestorm, In This Moment, Lindsey Stirling. TOOL closes the entire thing on Sunday with Gojira, Danny Elfman, and The Mars Volta. The deep cuts are what make Louder Than Life more than a headliner festival: Pantera's only US show of 2026, Megadeth on their farewell tour, BABYMETAL bridging metal and J-pop for 40,000 people who never expected to love both. A Day to Remember, Alice Cooper, Pierce the Veil — four days of music that spans five decades of heavy without pretending any era is better than another. Seven stages means you will always have to choose between two acts you want to see, and that tension is the sign of a festival doing its job. If you have ever been told your music is too loud, too aggressive, too much — this is the festival that was built as the counterargument. Four days in Louisville where heavy is the default and everything else is the exception. The bourbon culture of Louisville means the food and drink programming hits as hard as the music, and the festival grounds are walking distance from downtown. Tickets are available through the official site with single-day and multi-day options. Nearly 200 bands across seven stages means the schedule is an endurance sport — plan your conflicts now, bring comfortable shoes, and accept that you will miss something great every hour. That is the luxury of a lineup this deep. Louder Than Life is the proof that rock never went anywhere — it just needed a festival big enough to hold all of it at once.

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Bates Nut Farm Pumpkin Patch 2026

Sep 17, 2026 Bates Nut Farm, 15954 Woods Valley…

Autumn barely registers in Southern California — the light shifts a little, the evenings cool, and that is mostly it. Which is exactly why the drive out to Valley Center matters. Past the last strip mall the hills open up, and there sits a century-old farm that has been handing kids their first pumpkin since before their parents were born. Hay bales taller than a five-year-old. A tractor hayride that rattles just enough to feel like an adventure. A straw maze, a corn pit, pony rides, and acres of orange scattered across dirt you are allowed to walk on and dig through until you find the one. This is the season Californians have to go looking for, and Bates is where it has always been kept. Open daily from September 17 through October 31, no ticket to get in, just the slow pleasure of an afternoon that smells like straw and kettle corn. Come for the pumpkin. Stay because nobody is rushing you out.

Live Oak Canyon Pumpkin Patch & Fall Festival 2026 — Redlands

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Live Oak Canyon Pumpkin Patch & Fall Festival 2026 — Redlands

Every day · Next Sep 17 32335 Live Oak Canyon Rd, Redlands…

People drive past three closer pumpkin patches to get to this one. That single fact does more work than any description could, and once you have walked the canyon it stops being mysterious. It is the largest patch in Southern California, folded into a canyon in Redlands, and it has spent forty-five years proving that fall does not require snow in order to feel like fall. Seventy-odd attractions: rides and slides, a corn maze, ponies, a petting zoo, flower gardens, a food court, and pumpkins in quantities sufficient to supply every front porch in the Inland Empire. The place sprawls. Wear real shoes and accept that you will be here longer than the plan you announced in the car. Open daily through the season out on Live Oak Canyon Road, with hours and pricing at liveoakcanyon.com. Go on a day when your people have nowhere to be afterward.

Eric Nam at The Roxy Theatre — West Hollywood (September 2026)

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Eric Nam at The Roxy Theatre — West Hollywood (September 2026)

Sep 17, 2026 $75+ The Roxy Theatre, 9009 Sunset Blvd…

Five hundred people in a room built for guitar bands, and the person on stage is singing in Korean. The Sunset Strip has seen most things since the seventies. This is not one of them. He writes in English and sings in Korean and moves between the two the way bilingual kids move between their parents' house and everywhere else — without translating, because for him there is nothing to translate. Somewhere in the third row is a fan who learned English off his podcast, mouthing every word in both languages at once. His audience does that. It is strange to witness for about a minute, and then it is not strange at all. A room this size cannot fake intimacy: the stage is close enough to touch and the walls sweat by the second song. Two nights on Sunset in West Hollywood, and seats are going. If you have been waiting for the show where you can see his face when he hits that note, stop waiting.

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San Diego Bayfair 2026

Sep 18, 2026 Crown Point Shores, Mission Bay, S…

For one weekend in September, Mission Bay becomes the loudest water in the United States, and the regulars who claim the same patch of shoreline every year would not have it any other way. The Thunderboats are unlimited hydroplanes moving at over 150 miles an hour and throwing rooster tails fifty feet in the air. You do not so much hear them as get hit by them. This is the crown jewel of American powerboat racing and it has been roaring across this bay for more than sixty years, which is longer than most of the people watching have been alive. Around the racing: a car and motorcycle show, a barbecue cook-off, jet-ski freestyle, beer gardens, and family zones spread down Crown Point. Bring sunscreen, a low chair, and ear protection — the boats are felt more than heard. Take somebody who has never been. Watch them flinch on the first pass.

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San Manuel Pow Wow 2026

Sep 18, 2026 5500 University Pkwy, San Bernardi…

The drum starts and for a second you cannot tell whether it is the drum or your own heartbeat, and then a hundred dancers move at once and you understand this is not a performance. It is a prayer that happens to have an audience. For three days the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians opens the circle on the Cal State San Bernardino campus to dancers, singers and artisans from dozens of nations across North America and Canada. Grand Entry is the moment, every dancer in full regalia entering the arena together, and if you have never seen it you are not ready for it. The intertribal dances are open to anyone, including you, and stepping into that circle beside people who have been dancing since before they could walk rearranges something. There is fry bread. There is jewelry made by the hands selling it. The campus off University Parkway, three days in September, free and open to everyone. Go once. Then understand what a century of attempted erasure failed to do.

Korean Cultural Festival — Los Angeles 2026

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Korean Cultural Festival — Los Angeles 2026

Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026 Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilsh…

The drums arrive before anything else — nongak percussion you feel against your sternum a full block before you can see who is making it. Then you turn the corner and Koreatown has put its entire cultural memory out on the street. Pansori singers and haegeum players share an afternoon with cover dance crews and contemporary pop acts, the oldest traditions and the newest obsessions running hours apart on the same stage. Nanta percussion theater says everything it needs to without a single word. The food is simply Koreatown itself: barbecue, fried chicken, tteokbokki, bibimbap, and the street snacks that quietly rewired how this whole country eats. The marketplace handles skincare, crafts, and clothes. Three days along the Wilshire corridor, free or close to it, with the Purple Line letting you out a short walk away. If you grew up between two countries and have spent your life translating, this is the day nothing needs translating. Bring your mother.

Route 66 Cruisin' Reunion 2026 — Ontario, CA

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Route 66 Cruisin' Reunion 2026 — Ontario, CA

Sep 18, 2026 Euclid Avenue, Ontario, CA 91762

A car is never just a car at this show. It is a garage a father built, a trip a husband always said he would take and never did, a paint job that took longer than most relationships. People bring the machine and then stand beside it all day telling that story to strangers, and the telling is the actual event. A thousand classics fill twenty-two blocks of Euclid Avenue, the boulevard that carried everybody's westward dream down the Mother Road, and this year the highway itself turns a hundred. Woodies that smell like salt water and old wax. Muscle cars that move the asphalt when they roll past. Live music, a Ferris wheel over the kids' zone, food the whole length of it. Two days in Ontario, right on the old corridor, free to walk in and free to park. Go with the person who taught you what to listen for in an engine.

Cruisin' Grand — Escondido Friday Night Classic Car Cruise 2026

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Cruisin' Grand — Escondido Friday Night Classic Car Cruise 2026

Every Friday · Next Sep 18 ✨ New Grand Avenue, Escondido, CA 92025

Every Friday night from late April through October, the main drag of downtown Escondido fills with machines that were built before most of the spectators were born. Cruisin' Grand is not a car show with roped-off displays and velvet barriers. It is a rolling parade of 500-plus American-made classics, customs, muscle cars, and hot rods that idle down Grand Avenue while five thousand people line the sidewalks, lean against the storefronts, and pretend they are not staring at a 1957 Bel Air like it is a religious artifact. The restaurants along Grand set up patio seating. The ice cream shops do their best night of the week. The exhaust notes mix with the rockabilly playing from someone's tailgate. Nobody is in a hurry. That is the entire culture: the opposite of hurry. If you have ever wanted to see what Southern California car culture looks like when it is not behind a museum rope, Cruisin' Grand is the answer. Every Friday, 5 to 8 PM through October. Grand Avenue between Centre City Parkway and Ivy Street, Escondido. Free.

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Knott's Scary Farm 2026 — Opening Night

Sep 18 – Sep 19, 2026 From $52 Knott's Berry Farm, 8039 Beach Blv…

Opening night draws the people who came specifically for the scare and almost none of the casual crowd — the park feels different when everyone in it chose to be there. Knott's Scary Farm invented the Southern California Halloween experience, and over 50 years of iteration on the same park footprint has produced a version that knows exactly what it is doing. The mazes get annual updates, and some have been running in evolved form for decades, refined by people who have done nothing but this for half a century. Buena Park puts it 35 minutes from downtown LA and 45 from central San Diego on a clear night. Opening nights pull the most committed fans and the lightest crowds — which is the best possible combination for anyone who takes the scare seriously. Send it to the friend who does Halloween all month long.

The Return of the Carnival of Sins: Mötley Crüe with Tesla & Extreme

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The Return of the Carnival of Sins: Mötley Crüe with Tesla & Extreme

Sep 18, 2026 North Island Credit Union Amphithe…

Nobody believed the farewell tour. Everybody was right not to. The Carnival of Sins was never really about the songs anyway; it was about pyrotechnics and chaos and a volume that reached your chest from the lawn before it ever reached your ears. Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, and the rest of the Crüe bring that entire apparatus back to the amphitheatre in Chula Vista, and this is not a greatest-hits obligation set from a band coasting on a name. It is a band leaning all the way back into the excess that made them the blueprint for arena rock in the first place. Tesla and Extreme open, two acts that could each headline a theater tour alone and together turn the night into a three-part lesson in what rock and roll sounded like when it still had a dress code. If you ever air-guitared to More Than Words in a bedroom with the door shut, this is the night that memory finally gets a body.

The Midnight: Time Machines Tour — SOMA San Diego

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The Midnight: Time Machines Tour — SOMA San Diego

Sep 18, 2026 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

You know the feeling at two in the morning when an old synth line comes on and the highway briefly looks like a movie you starred in twenty years ago. That is the entire catalog, and live it is worse, or better, depending on how much of yourself you were planning to hold together tonight. Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan write like the soundtrack to a John Hughes film that never got made: neon-drenched synths, saxophone breaks with no business being that devastating, and a treatment of nostalgia as a superpower rather than an affliction. The newer record leans harder into the sci-fi end of it. But the show is where the thing reveals itself, because this is not an audience watching a band. It is a room of people who each independently worked out that synthwave is a feeling, and then discovered they were not alone in it. SOMA in San Diego, all ages, a concrete room where the sound finds you personally. Bring whoever used to drive around with you at night with nowhere to be.

San Diego Cars and Coffee at Elite Finish

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San Diego Cars and Coffee at Elite Finish

Sep 19, 2026 Elite Finish, 8820 Kenamar Dr, San…

Nobody here is selling anything. That single fact changes the entire temperature of a morning like this — no sales-floor energy, no pitch, just rows of machinery somebody loved enough to build, and a crowd willing to stand around discussing it before most of the county has woken up. The air is still cool. The paper cup goes warm in your hand. A hypercar sits fender to fender with a rat rod, a JDM legend beside American muscle, and the six-figure exotic earns exactly the same respect as the twenty-year passion project in the next row — which is the unwritten rule that makes the whole quarterly gathering work. A DJ, coffee, pastries, all makes and models welcome, kids underfoot everywhere. Bring the gearheads. Bring the kid who is about to become one, and watch the moment something fires up two rows over and their head turns.

SuperMotocross World Championship Playoffs — Carson, CA

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SuperMotocross World Championship Playoffs — Carson, CA

Sep 19, 2026 Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 …

You feel the bikes in your sternum before you hear them, and once twenty-two of them drop the gate at the same instant, the sound stops being sound and becomes weather. The Playoffs are where the format turns brutal. The escalating points system means every moto counts double: a bad start is not recoverable, a mechanical failure ends a championship, and the entire crowd understands the math while it is happening. The track is a hybrid built to test supercross and motocross in a single afternoon, which strips out anyone who is only good at one. Jett Lawrence and Haiden Deegan defend against Eli Tomac, Chase Sexton, Ken Roczen and the rest of a field that ground through a whole season to get here. FanFest opens the morning wide — team access, riders, the kind of proximity other motorsports sell as a package. Get there early and stand near the fence. You will not go back to watching it on a screen.

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Temecula Wine Harvest Weekend 2026

Sep 19 – Sep 20, 2026 Old Town Temecula, 28690 Old Town …

The harvest heat is still in the air and the vines have reached the point where everything the year built toward is finally visible - this is the weekend the valley invites the city to mark the moment the grapes become something else. Temecula Wine Harvest Weekend runs through the wineries and into Old Town. Expect tastings across the valley's best estates, food pairings, and live music at the vineyards and the Old Town venues. The Temecula Valley wine region produces wine that belongs on any California shortlist, and the harvest weekend is when the wineries are most open and most celebratory. Come with a car service if you are doing the full vineyard circuit; come to Old Town if you want the festival without the driving. Either way, September in Temecula wine country earns the trip. Old Town Temecula, 28690 Old Town Front St, September 19-20, 2026. Full schedule and winery participation list at visittemeculavalley.com/events.

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LEGOLAND Brick-or-Treat 2026 — Carlsbad

Every Saturday · Next Sep 19 Included with park admission 1 LEGOLAND Drive, Carlsbad, CA 920…

Your kid picked the costume in August, has changed it twice since, and will change it again the morning of. This is known. The whole event was built by people who know it. Brick-or-Treat turns the resort into a Halloween built at kid height. Candy stations scattered across the park, characters in costume handing it out, a monster dance floor going all afternoon, themed builds that exist only for the season. What separates it from every other theme-park overlay is what is missing: no scare zones, no fog in a dark corridor, no teenager in zombie makeup lunging at a toddler. Just a five-year-old in a full Batman suit being taken completely seriously by every adult in the building, which is a rare public service. Select weekends across the fall in Carlsbad, included with park admission on event dates. Go for the walk back to the car, when they fall asleep still holding the bucket.

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