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Old Town San Diego Fiestas Patrias

Sep 16, 2026 Old Town San Diego State Historic …

El Grito does not need a stadium. It needs a plaza, a microphone, and enough people who know what to shout back. For one afternoon in September the oldest streets in San Diego fill with the smell of carne asada and the snap of a folklórico skirt cutting the air, and the whole park remembers that this land was Mexico first. Living-history demonstrations, mariachi on the plaza, crafts made by hand in front of you, and food that tastes like somebody's abuela made it because somebody's abuela did. It is free and it is outdoors, and it is one of the rare days here when four generations of a family move through the same afternoon together — toddlers in tiny sombreros, elders who have been coming for decades. The families who always knew Old Town is more than a tourist strip will be there. So should you.

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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.

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Fiestas Patrias — Downtown Santa Ana

Sep 12 – Sep 13, 2026 Main St & Civic Center Dr, Santa A…

Once every September, ten thousand separate people become a single voice. A man on a stage shouts the words Miguel Hidalgo shouted in 1810, the answer comes back off the buildings — ¡Viva México! — and you feel it in your chest whether or not it is your history. Downtown Santa Ana is the right ground for it, the center of Latino Orange County, hosting the largest Fiestas Patrias in the region for more than four decades. El Grito goes up Saturday night on the main stage, and around it sprawls everything the holiday should be: folklórico, banda, mariachi, carnival rides, street food that smells like a hundred family kitchens at once. Sunday the parade comes down Main Street. This is not a themed weekend. It is a community throwing itself its own birthday party, at Main and Civic Center. For the families here it is simply the weekend everybody comes home for. Go be somebody who came home.

Callaway Vineyard Sip, Stomp & Play 2026 — Temecula

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Callaway Vineyard Sip, Stomp & Play 2026 — Temecula

Sep 13, 2026 Callaway Vineyard & Winery, 32720 …

The grape stomp is not a metaphor. You will actually stand in a barrel. Your feet will be purple. The person next to you will be trying harder than the situation calls for. This is the appeal. Callaway Vineyard's annual Sip, Stomp & Play is one of the harvest celebrations that turns Temecula Wine Country into a destination every September — a Saturday evening that starts with check-in at 6:30, moves through a glass of Callaway wine and an outdoor dinner (the menu changes each year but the vineyard-to-table philosophy doesn't), and peaks with the grape stomping competition where teams of four chase fun prizes with stained ankles and zero technique. Live music and dancing fill the space between the stomping and the stars. Callaway has been making wine in Temecula since 1969, which means the vines you're looking at during dinner are older than most of the guests. Saturday, September 13, 2026. Check-in 6:30 PM. Callaway Vineyard & Winery, 32720 Rancho California Rd, Temecula, CA 92591. $125 general, $100 wine club, $70 kids 4–11.

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…

Split and dripping, whole Maine lobster for less than a restaurant charges for the bisque alone — that is the pitch, and the line moves faster than you expect because everyone ahead of you already knows what they want. Rolls, bisque, mac and cheese, and whatever variation the vendors talked themselves into this year. It started at Rainbow Lagoon in Long Beach and grew until it needed a park to hold it, and the People's Choice competition for best lobster dish drags genuinely serious regional kitchens into a fight over bragging rights. Around the eating: SoCal craft beer and wine, an artisan marketplace, live music across stages, and carnival rides for whoever is too young to care about crustaceans. Three days in September at the Fountain Valley sports park, sitting centrally in Orange County, with weekend sessions that sell through in advance. Go with the person who orders lobster every time and pretends it is a special occasion.

Dana Point Maritime Festival 2026 — Ocean Institute

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Dana Point Maritime Festival 2026 — Ocean Institute

Sep 13, 2026 Ocean Institute, 24200 Dana Point …

Tall ships come into the harbor looking like they wandered out of a century that never actually ended. For three days they belong to you — board them, walk the deck, put your hand on rigging somebody still maintains by hand. Then the cannons start, and the sound comes back off the water in a way no film has ever gotten right. Pirates roam the grounds with the swagger of people who have been doing this for decades and refuse to stop. There are mermaids, or at least people who commit entirely to being mermaids at a maritime festival, which is its own category of magic. Around the spectacle sits the real thing: ocean science exhibits, dockside demonstrations, a beer garden pouring local, live music that sounds better bouncing off water, food trucks down the harbor. Kids learn how a sextant works. Adults learn how a cannon fires. Bring somebody small. Watch them decide, on the spot, to become a sailor.

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34th Annual Belmont Shore Car Show

Sep 13, 2026 Second Street, Belmont Shore, Long…

The builders start rolling in around six in the morning, staging their machines while the street is still empty, on a beach-town main drag that has been closed to traffic for the occasion. Which sounds like a small thing until you see it. Fourteen blocks. More than seven hundred vehicles. Hot rods, classics, customs, and at least one climb-aboard helicopter parked incongruously among all that chrome. It is free, it is on foot, and it is really a block party wearing a car show's clothes — owners in lawn chairs, ready to narrate an entire restoration to anyone who slows down enough to ask a single question. Second Street in Belmont Shore, Long Beach, on a Sunday morning in September. Go if you have ever slowed down for a beautiful old machine. The people who built these have been waiting all year for somebody to ask them about it.

San Diego British Car Day 2026 — Coronado

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San Diego British Car Day 2026 — Coronado

Sep 13, 2026 Tidelands Park, 2000 Mullinix Driv…

Tidelands Park in Coronado becomes a very specific kind of museum on the second Sunday of September — one where the exhibits run, leak oil, and their owners explain with unreasonable patience why the Lucas electrical system is actually not as bad as its reputation. San Diego British Car Day brings together every marque you have heard of — Jaguar, MG, Triumph, Austin-Healey, Lotus, Rolls-Royce — and several you haven't, parked on the grass with the Coronado Bridge arcing overhead and the bay behind them. The owners are the real exhibit. They will tell you about the restoration. They will tell you about the parts they sourced from a barn in Shropshire. They will tell you about the time it rained and the wipers only worked on one side. If you care about British cars, this is a pilgrimage. If you don't, it is still one of the most beautiful settings for a car show anywhere in San Diego. Free. Sunday, September 13. Tidelands Park, Coronado.

Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch & Fall Festival 2026

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Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch & Fall Festival 2026

Sep 13, 2026 Irvine Regional Park, 1 Irvine Par…

The pumpkin weighs more than your kid. Your kid wants to carry it anyway. This is October. Irvine Park Railroad's fall festival has been an Orange County tradition long enough that the parents bringing their children are the children who were brought here. Irvine Regional Park transforms from September through October into a harvest wonderland: hayrides through the eucalyptus groves, a not-so-spooky haunted house for the under-seven crowd, hay mazes, train rides, moon bounces, face painting, panning for gold, and a pumpkin patch where the selection runs from baseball to basketball to genuinely-too-large-to-carry. The Great Pumpkin Weigh-Off on September 19 is where growers compete for $8,500 in prizes, and the resulting pumpkins are the kind that require a forklift and a philosophical reassessment of what a plant can do. This is not a corporate Halloween activation. It's a park. With trains. And pumpkins. And the specific joy of watching a three-year-old try to lift something heavier than they are. September 13 through October 31, 2026. Irvine Regional Park, 1 Irvine Park Rd, Orange, CA 92869. Weekends require reservations in October. Park entry $3 weekdays, $5 weekends.

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Whitney Cummings: Big Baby Tour — Plaza Theatre, Palm Springs

Sep 12, 2026 128 S Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs…

There's a kind of funny that makes you laugh because it's clever, and there's a kind that makes you laugh because someone just said the thing you've been thinking for three years and were too polite to say out loud. Whitney Cummings has built a career on the second kind. The Big Baby Tour rolls into the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs on Saturday, September 12, 2026, and if you've watched her specials you already know the room is going to feel like a group therapy session that got way too honest way too fast. Cummings writes about relationships, technology, and the specific hell of being a person in this decade with a precision that leaves bruises. The Plaza Theatre is a restored 1936 Art Deco jewel on Palm Canyon Drive — intimate enough that you can see her react to your reaction. Show at 8 PM. Plaza Theatre, 128 S Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262. Tickets through Ticketmaster. Valet parking available at Hotel Zoso. Desert evening, warm crowd, no filter.

HOTPIT Autofest Round 3 — Drifting & Car Show at Orange Show Speedway

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HOTPIT Autofest Round 3 — Drifting & Car Show at Orange Show Speedway

Sep 12, 2026 Orange Show Speedway, 689 S E St, …

Tire smoke hasn't cleared from the last corner when the next car is already sideways into the entry. That's the rhythm at HOTPIT Autofest — Southern California's motorsport festival where the drifting is competitive, the car show is curated, and the crowd knows the difference between a tandem run and a solo. Round 3 of the 2026 season lands September 12 at Orange Show Speedway in San Bernardino. The format stacks drifting competition alongside a VIP auto showcase, dance battles, RC racing, live DJs, models, vendors, and food — a full-spectrum car culture event that treats motorsport as lifestyle, not just sport. Gates open at the Orange Show Speedway, 689 S. E Street, San Bernardino, CA 92408. Tickets at hotpitautofest.com. This is the event you send to the friend who has a drift car in their garage and a helmet in their trunk. They already know about it. They're already going. But they want you to see it.

Anime Night Mart — Free Anime Market at Moreno Valley Mall (September 2026)

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Anime Night Mart — Free Anime Market at Moreno Valley Mall (September 2026)

Sep 12, 2026 Moreno Valley Mall, 22500 Town Cir…

The artist alley table has prints of your exact comfort character. The vendor next to it is selling enamel pins you didn't know existed but now can't leave without. This isn't a mall event — it's a gathering. Anime Night Mart takes over Moreno Valley Mall for two days of vendor booths, cosplay meetups, gaming stations, live performances, and raffles — all free, all ages. This is the Inland Empire's own anime night market, built for the crowd that knows their way around a convention floor but doesn't need one to have a good time. The vendors bring fan art, plushies, wall scrolls, and treasures from corners of fandom you forgot you loved. The cosplay corner fills with people who spent weeks building something they'll wear for six hours and cherish every second of it. The energy is warm and nerdy and specific. You'll recognize people by their shirts before you know their names. You'll leave with a bag full of things you'll never explain to anyone who wasn't there — and that's exactly how it's supposed to work. September 12-13, 2026. Moreno Valley Mall. Free admission. All ages.

LAWineFest 2026 — Los Angeles Equestrian Center

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LAWineFest 2026 — Los Angeles Equestrian Center

Sep 12, 2026 Los Angeles Equestrian Center, 480…

A tasting room teaches you about one winery. A field in Burbank full of strangers who all want to argue about Grenache teaches you about a whole state. Twenty-one years in, this has settled into something no tasting room can copy: sunshine, live music all afternoon, food trucks along the perimeter, and the particular freedom of a day where the only decision is whether to try the next pour or go back for another taco. General admission covers unlimited tastings across California and international wines, plus craft brews, ciders, and kombucha, and you keep the glass. The VIP tier is capped per day and opens a garden of boutique wineries — the small producers who never reach a shelf you have seen — with real seating and an earlier start. Twenty-one and over, free parking, no downtown traffic. If you have spent a year saying you should go to more wine things, this is the one that costs a Saturday and changes what you order for a decade.

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9th Annual Craft Beer LB Fest

Sep 12, 2026 Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site,…

The beer scene here has never tried to be San Diego's, and that stubbornness is exactly the point — small, local, poured by people who will remember your name the second time. Once a year the whole thing gathers on the grounds of an adobe rancho built in 1844, which turns a beer festival into something closer to a garden party held in somebody's very old backyard. Fifteen tastings, a souvenir glass, gardens and thick white walls, and no pretense that this is a national event with local participation. It is the only festival built specifically around this city's own breweries, and it is family friendly in the genuine sense rather than the marketing sense. The LBC people who drink local on purpose will already be there when you arrive. Come taste a whole neighborhood in one afternoon, and bring whoever first taught you that beer could be interesting.

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Sunset Cliffs Auto Show 2026 — Presented by Hodad's

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

Mid-morning, the marine layer burns off and the cars start rolling in one at a time, which is the best part of the day and almost nobody arrives early enough to watch it. Five blocks off the water, with a burger counter across the way that has been standing longer than most of the metal on display. It is a neighborhood show and it stays one. Custom builds parked beside family classics beside the same regulars who bring the same car every year and would be missed if they skipped it. Local car clubs run the thing, the money goes back into Ocean Beach, and while there are awards on the line including Best in Show, most owners are really there to stand next to it and talk to whoever stops. Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, late morning into the afternoon, free to walk through. Take somebody who says car shows are not for them and let the backdrop do the work.

Creep It Real OC 2026 — Halloween Festival at Heritage Museum

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Creep It Real OC 2026 — Halloween Festival at Heritage Museum

Sep 11, 2026 Heritage Museum of Orange County, …

The decorations went up in your garage before the leaves changed. You already know. You've been waiting since last November. Creep It Real OC returns for its 7th year at the Heritage Museum of Orange County, September 11–13, with this year's Vintage Halloween and Hometown Halloween theme hitting the exact frequency your childhood still broadcasts on. Over 130 vendors fill the grounds with handmade horror art, vintage collectibles, and things that look like they were pulled from someone's attic in 1983. Roaming characters, live music, photo ops, and food trucks round out a weekend that smells like October even though September hasn't finished. Kids 10 and under get in free with a paid parent ticket. Pets are welcome and encouraged to come in costume — because of course they are. This is kid-friendly and pet-friendly and perfectly weird. This is not a haunted house. This is the feeling of being twelve years old and knowing exactly which house in the neighborhood goes hardest. Except now you're surrounded by a thousand people who all grew up on that same block.

Sub Urban: The Bell Tolls Tour — SOMA, San Diego

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Sub Urban: The Bell Tolls Tour — SOMA, San Diego

Sep 10, 2026 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

Sub Urban makes music that sounds like someone left the lights on in a haunted house and a DJ showed up. Dark-pop with production so dense it practically has texture — the kind of songs that live on playlists titled things your parents wouldn't approve of, streamed by the demographic that discovered him through 'Cradles' and stayed for the whole uncanny valley. The Bell Tolls Tour brings the Taiwanese American singer-songwriter to SOMA's Sidestage for an all-ages, standing-room-only show that will pack the room with the exact crowd you'd expect: people who know every lyric, dressed like they coordinate with the album art, filming vertically. SOMA's Sidestage is the intimate configuration — closer quarters, louder per capita, the kind of venue where you feel the bass in your sternum. Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. All ages, general admission, standing room only.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey: The Greatest Show On Earth — Pechanga Arena San Diego

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey: The Greatest Show On Earth — Pechanga Arena San Diego

Sep 10, 2026 Pechanga Arena San Diego, 3500 Spo…

Every kid in the room will hold their breath at the same time just before the lights go down — and so will every adult who forgot they used to be one of those kids. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey returns to Pechanga Arena San Diego from September 10 through 13, 2026, bringing a reimagined Greatest Show On Earth that has traded animal acts for a diverse cast of global performers — aerial artists, acrobats, and clowns whose only job is to make you forget you have a phone in your pocket. The show runs seven performances across four days: evening shows at 7 PM on Thursday and Friday, three shows Saturday at 11 AM, 3 PM, and 7 PM, and matinees Sunday at noon and 4 PM. All guests age two and older need a ticket. Pechanga Arena at 3500 Sports Arena Boulevard in the Midway District is the venue. Bring the kids. Bring the grandparents. Bring whoever forgot what wonder looks like.

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