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SD Night Market — October Edition

Oct 31, 2026 Free Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy,…

Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy, San Diego. October 31st. Free. The SD Night Market on Halloween is the version of this event that puts the vendor rows and the street food and the waterfront setting underneath a city-wide costume night — the most photographed, most food-dense, most visually strange version of the Night Market all year. Halloween at the Night Market means the crowd is in costume. The food vendors are still the same — the Filipino bowls, the Korean street food, the Japanese snacks, the handmade goods — but the context is different. Walking past a ramen stall while someone in a full monster costume debates the menu with someone in a historical gown is the specific experience of San Diego doing its own version of Halloween. Free entry. October 31st. sdnightmarket.com for vendor lineup and layout. Arrive before 7 to find a spot at the bay-side tables before they fill. Bring cash if you have it — not every vendor takes cards. The Night Market runs until the evening, which on Halloween means the city lights and the costume energy are both at full volume by the time you leave.

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Carlsbad Village Street Faire 2026

Nov 1, 2026 Grand Avenue, Carlsbad Village, Ca…

Twice a year, the streets of Carlsbad Village shut to cars and open to what's often called the largest single-day street fair in the nation — and the November edition is the one locals use to ease into the holidays. Hundreds of vendors line Grand Avenue and the surrounding blocks: handmade goods, art, jewelry, plants, street food from every direction, a beer-and-wine garden, and live music drifting between the booths. It's a walk-all-day kind of event, equal parts shopping, eating, and people-watching, set two blocks from the beach with the ocean breeze running through it. Strollers, dogs, and grandparents all fit; it's as easygoing as a SoCal Sunday gets. Come early to park — the village fills fast — and plan to wander. The Carlsbad Village Street Faire returns Sunday, November 1, 2026, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, in downtown Carlsbad Village. Free admission; bring cash and a tote bag.

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Melrose Trading Post — Nov 1

Nov 1, 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.

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Smorgasburg Los Angeles — November 2026

Nov 1, 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.

Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery 2026

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Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery 2026

Nov 1, 2026 Paid - $25-$50 Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 S…

Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the most attended Day of the Dead celebration in the United States, held on November 1 every year for over two decades. Tens of thousands of people fill the grounds of the historic cemetery after dark. The altars are among the most elaborate you will find outside of Mexico. Families and community members build towering marigold displays, photograph arrangements, handwritten notes, food offerings, and objects that tell the story of someone who mattered. Walking among them is a quiet, strange, profound experience. No two altars are the same. The mainstage hosts live music rooted in traditional Mexican and Latinx traditions alongside contemporary artists. Folklórico dance performances, Aztec dancers in full regalia, and art installations are staged throughout the grounds. The crowd is multigenerational, multicultural, and enormous, but the space absorbs it. Tickets sell out. They go on sale in September and move fast. The event runs afternoon into the night. Comfortable shoes are essential. Marigolds, face paint, and traditional dress are welcome and common. This is not a Halloween event. It is a celebration of memory, family, and continuity. If you have never been, go.

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SEMA Show 2026 — Las Vegas, NV

Nov 3 – Nov 7, 2026 0 Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 …

Two thousand brands, 160,000 automotive professionals, the most elaborate custom vehicles on earth — all in a Las Vegas convention center every November. SEMA is the industry's annual argument about what cars can become. What SEMA feels like is unlike any auto show in the world. This is not rows of production vehicles under fluorescent lights. This is a Dodge Challenger converted into a tribute to a deceased mechanic, a Bronco built for Baja racing with a 700-mile range, a Toyota Tacoma so extensively modified that the factory DNA is nearly invisible. The smell of fresh paint, engine oil, and ambition is everywhere. The Specialty Equipment Market Association show exists because the aftermarket parts industry — the people who make your car yours — needs one place to show what they built this year. Is SEMA worth attending? It depends on who you are. If you are in the automotive industry or enthusiast community at any level, SEMA Fest on Saturday (the public consumer day) is one of the most inspiring afternoons you can spend in Las Vegas. Full-coverage builds that would cost six figures sit 10 feet from you. The designers will talk to you. The fabricators will explain how they built the thing. If you are not an automotive person, SEMA Fest may still surprise you — some of these vehicles are genuinely art. The Battle of the Builders final is as dramatic as any competition you will watch this year. What to know before you go: SEMA Fest (Saturday, November 7) is the consumer day — this is what enthusiasts attend. The full trade show (Tuesday-Friday) requires industry credentials. Book hotel rooms well in advance; SEMA week in Las Vegas fills the Strip. Parking is manageable at the Convention Center. Wear comfortable shoes — the floor is enormous. The Battle of the Builders announcement happens mid-afternoon on Saturday and draws a crowd; position yourself early. Merchandise lines and meet-and-greets with builders and YouTubers run throughout the day. SEMA is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it is the single annual moment when the aftermarket automotive world shows what it has been building for twelve months. The builders who compete for the Battle of the Builders work all year for Saturday afternoon. The brands that exhibit have been prototyping their showcase parts since the last show. Nothing else in automotive culture operates at this level of craft density in a single location. For anyone who has ever modified a vehicle, looked at a stock car and imagined what it could be, or simply been moved by the intersection of engineering and aesthetics — SEMA Fest is the pilgrimage. The Las Vegas SEMA week has become its own cultural moment. Knowing about it makes you a more interesting version of yourself in any car conversation.

Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — November 03

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Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — November 03

Nov 3 – Nov 4, 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.

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San Diego Food and Wine Festival 2026

Nov 4 – Nov 8, 2026 San Diego Bay Waterfront, San Dieg…

The San Diego Food and Wine Festival returns November 4–8, 2026 with its signature Grand Tasting Weekend November 6–8 along San Diego Bay. One of the most respected culinary events in the American West, this festival brings together over 300 chefs and tastemakers, 200-plus wineries, breweries, and spirit producers, and 80-plus chefs from West Coast and Baja California kitchens for five days of dinners, panels, and headline tasting events. The Grand Tasting Weekend is the centerpiece — an open-format outdoor tasting event on the waterfront with San Diego Bay and the downtown skyline as the backdrop. Attendees circulate between dozens of stations representing wine regions, culinary traditions, and craft beverage producers. The Baja California connection is uniquely San Diego: Valle de Guadalupe winemakers and Ensenada chefs participate in ways you will not find at any other American food festival. Pre-festival dinners run November 4–5 at restaurants throughout the county. The Grand Tasting Weekend is ticketed separately from intimate dinner events. Early ticket purchase is strongly recommended — Grand Tasting sessions sell out weeks in advance. Downtown San Diego and the Little Italy neighborhood are walkable from main event venues.

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San Diego Food + Wine Festival 2026

Nov 6 – Nov 8, 2026 Per-night ticketed — see sandiegowineclassic.com Embarcadero Marina Park North, 500…

The San Diego Food and Wine Festival returns for three nights of coastal culinary celebration in November 2026, making it the marquee food and wine event on San Diego's fall calendar. Night one brings Icons and Legends: celebrity chefs, award-winning wines, and the kind of access you cannot get at a typical restaurant. Night two is the Grand Event featuring 200-plus wineries, breweries, and spirit producers alongside live music and bites from San Diego's top chefs. Night three is the Grand Fiesta, a cross-border culinary celebration bringing together the best of Tijuana, Baja California, and San Diego food scenes in one waterfront venue. The Chef of the Festival competition runs across all three nights with attendee votes determining the winner. Past festivals have attracted national food media and James Beard honorees. Venue is at a waterfront location in San Diego — check sandiegowineclassic.com for exact location and ticket information as the event approaches. Dress for a coastal November evening. Tickets sell out well in advance for all three nights, particularly the Grand Event. This is one of the most sophisticated food experiences in Southern California and worth making travel plans for.

Abbot Kinney First Fridays — November 2026

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Abbot Kinney First Fridays — November 2026

Nov 6, 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

Nov 6, 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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Melrose Trading Post — Nov 8

Nov 8, 2026 Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose …

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Outlander in Concert

Nov 14, 2026 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

Rock music in a room the size of Dolby Theatre operates at a different physics than it does in an arena — you feel the kick drum before you hear it. Outlander in Concert performs at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on November 14, 2026. All ages. The people who were there will describe it differently than anyone who heard about it later — that difference is what the ticket buys.

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Melrose Trading Post — Nov 15

Nov 15, 2026 Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose …

Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

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Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

Nov 16 – Nov 18, 2026 200 Dodger Stadium, 1000 Vin Scully Av…

Tyler the Creator builds his festival the way he makes his albums — as a complete vision, not a lineup. The 2026 edition runs November 16–17 at Dodger Stadium: Tyler himself, Andre 3000, Erykah Badu, Playboi Carti, Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, Daniel Caesar. Sixty thousand people. This is his current read on what matters. Flog Gnaw feels nothing like a conventional music festival. Tyler's aesthetic — Golf Wang colors, surrealist visual direction, Converse collabs, the cartoon universe he's been building since Odd Future — pervades every inch of the grounds. The headliner list reads like Tyler's personal taste index rather than a booking agency's safe plays: Andre 3000's rare public appearances, Earl Sweatshirt's deliberately sparse touring schedule, legacy artists like Erykah Badu alongside younger voices. The surprise guest tradition is genuine — in past years unannounced performers have drawn more conversation than the headliners. The crowd skews young, fashion-conscious, and culturally literate in a way that is self-selecting. Flog Gnaw is the festival where people bring cameras for the fits, not just the performances. This is for people whose music listening doesn't fit a single genre label — who have Tyler the Creator, Badu, Earl, and Daniel Caesar on the same playlist and see nothing contradictory about that. It is for the aesthetically curious. It is not for people who want clear setlist times, grid-pattern stages, and predictable headliner slots. Tyler runs his festival on his own logic, and that's the point. If that energy resonates, Camp Flog Gnaw is one of the few festivals where the curation is unambiguously the product. Two-day passes sell significantly faster than single-day. The Dodger Stadium location is accessible by Metro (Dodger Stadium Express from Union Station — skip the parking). Merchandise drops at Flog Gnaw are serious and sell out quickly; the Golf Wang collabs available only at the festival have become collector items. Arrive early day one — the grounds have carnival rides, food, and art installations that reward exploration before the headliners. Andre 3000's live appearances remain rare enough to justify the trip from anywhere in the country. Camp Flog Gnaw is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it is the rare festival where the curator's artistic vision is fully legible in every decision. Tyler the Creator built a world — Golf Wang, Odd Future, Igor, Call Me If You Get Lost, Cherry Bomb — and Flog Gnaw is where that world becomes a place you can stand in for two days. The music industry produces thousands of festivals. Very few of them feel like they could only exist because one specific person willed them into being. Flog Gnaw is one of them. Tickets at Ticketmaster. November 16-17, 2026, Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles.

Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — November 17

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Boomtown Brewery Tuesday Trivia — November 17

Nov 17 – Nov 18, 2026 Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson St, …

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San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival 2026

Nov 18 – Nov 22, 2026 Embarcadero, Harbor Dr, San Diego,…

The San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival transforms the waterfront embarcadero in downtown San Diego for five days in November 2026, establishing itself as one of the premier culinary events on the West Coast and the social centerpiece of San Diego's food and beverage community's annual calendar. The festival spans multiple ticketed events across the week, culminating in the Grand Tasting event on the Embarcadero waterfront on Saturday and Sunday. The Grand Tasting draws hundreds of wineries, breweries, spirits producers, and food vendors for a general admission tasting format where badge holders sample from all participating vendors over several hours. The event is effectively a curated marketplace for every quality food and beverage producer who wants access to the San Diego market's affluent, engaged consumer base. Signature dinners throughout the week pair local San Diego chefs with specific winery or producer partners in seated, ticketed dinner formats at restaurants and venues throughout the city. These dinners are more intimate than the Grand Tasting and give attendees direct access to chefs and winemakers in conversation format. The Embarcadero is located along Harbor Drive in downtown San Diego, immediately walkable from the Gaslamp Quarter and accessible via Trolley (Waterfront Station). The Grand Tasting is ticketed; individual session tickets are available for specific dinners and events throughout the week. This is not a budget event — tickets reflect the production quality and caliber of participating producers.

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Los Angeles Auto Show 2026

Nov 20 – Nov 29, 2026 Paid — see laautoshow.com Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

The Los Angeles Auto Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center in November 2026 for one of the most important automotive events in the world. Running for over a century, the LA Auto Show is where global automakers make major announcements and unveil vehicles that define the next model year. More than a car show, it is the event where electric vehicle makers debut new platforms, concept cars go on public display, and enthusiasts get their first look at what is coming to market. The show spans hundreds of thousands of square feet of convention center floor, with every major manufacturer represented. Interactive driving experiences, technology demonstrations, and in-car previews let visitors engage with vehicles they cannot yet buy. Performance vehicles, luxury brands, trucks, and electric platforms all have dedicated sections. AutoMobility LA, the industry-facing media and trade days, precedes the public show and is where the biggest reveals typically happen. Public show days follow with family-friendly programming and ride-along demonstrations. The LA Convention Center is located at 1201 S Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, accessible via Metro Rail (Pico Station on the A and E Lines) and with parking on-site. Tickets available at laautoshow.com. The show runs daily for approximately two weeks. For anyone passionate about cars, design, or technology, this is the SoCal event of the fall season.

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