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Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show — June 2026

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Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show — June 2026

Jun 28, 2026 1801 W. McKinley Ave., Gate 17, Po…

The Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show at Fairplex is one of Southern California's most beloved monthly automotive events. Held the last Sunday of most months at Gate 17, Fairplex Pomona — June 28, 2026. Hundreds of vendors sell vintage auto parts, tools, accessories, memorabilia, and collectibles alongside a classic car show featuring everything from pristine muscle cars to project builds. Doors open 5:00 AM (early buyer) or 7:00 AM (general). Car show runs 7 AM to 2 PM. Whether you're hunting a specific part for a restoration, chasing vintage automotive literature, or just want to walk the lot and talk to people who know what they're looking at — this is the room for it. General admission 0. Cash recommended. Food vendors on site. Parking at the gate. Address: 1801 W. McKinley Ave., Gate 17, Pomona, CA 91768.

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OB Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off 2026

Jun 27 – Jun 28, 2026 Free admission 5099-4827 Newport Ave, San Diego, …

The Ocean Beach Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off returns to Newport Avenue for its 45th annual celebration in late June 2026, one of the most beloved neighborhood street fairs in San Diego. The fair transforms a ten-block stretch of OB's main commercial strip into an open-air community festival with live music, local vendors, food booths, artists, and the Chili Cook-Off competition that draws dozens of amateur and professional chili teams from across Southern California. The event draws over 100,000 visitors across the weekend and is produced entirely by the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association, keeping it rooted in the neighborhood it celebrates. Newport Avenue is lined with vintage shops, surf stores, restaurants, and galleries year-round — on Street Fair weekend it becomes a street party that captures the particular energy of OB: unpretentious, community-first, and genuinely fun. Live music stages run simultaneously at multiple blocks throughout the day. The Chili Cook-Off features judging by celebrity chefs and a public tasting component where visitors vote for their favorites. Hundreds of craft vendors and food booths set up along the avenue. Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach runs perpendicular to the Pacific Ocean, about five minutes from the beach on foot. Parking is limited — take the trolley to Old Town and connect via bus, or plan to walk from the beach lot. Admission is free. The fair runs from about 10 AM to 8 PM. This is the kind of neighborhood event that defines why people move to San Diego. Do not miss it.

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Conejo Food and Wine Festival 2026

Jun 28, 2026 ~$40 St. Paschal Baylon School Grounds,…

The hills above Thousand Oaks smell like wood smoke and caramelized onions and something sweet coming off the dessert tent that you have already decided to skip. You will not skip it. Local restaurants bring the dishes they know will disappear first. The wine pour is generous. Live music runs the whole afternoon. People arrive with their neighbors and leave with strangers they will see again next year, which is what happens when a community event actually works instead of merely occurring. The setup is unpretentious in the best way — a tree-shaded fundraiser that has fed the same neighborhood for over a decade, with every dollar going to programs run by the people throwing it. 1:30 to 5:30 PM at St. Paschal Baylon School Grounds, 155 E Janss Rd, Thousand Oaks. Admission around $40. Parking on-site. Get there early enough to work through the food before it runs out. The dessert table always goes first. That is how you know.

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Scoop San Diego — 8th Annual Ice Cream Festival

Jun 28, 2026 30th Street & North Park Way, San …

Ten samples sounds like plenty right up until you are standing at the top of the block doing the math. Thirty-something vendors. Ten tickets. The strategy conversation starts before anyone has even picked up a cup. That is the event: one North Park block closed off and handed to independent scoop shops, artisan gelato makers, paleta carts, and regional producers, all competing for people who turn out to be extremely serious about frozen dessert. Judges hand out prizes by flavor category. Dogs come. Kids come. Every net dollar goes to Feeding San Diego, which is the part regulars mention first when they explain why they keep buying tickets. Open air on 30th Street, tickets in advance online, and it does sell out. Go with the person who cannot make a decision to save their life. Their suffering, in front of a paleta cart, is most of the entertainment.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender S2

Jun 25 – Jun 27, 2026 Streaming on Netflix — Worldwide

Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action Season 2 drops June 25th, 2026 on Netflix — the Earth and Fire books, the Fire Nation arc, the characters people have carried since childhood now rendered in live action by a production that had a full season to calibrate to what the fanbase actually needs. This is not a show you watch alone if you don't have to. The reaction to a well-executed Fire Nation reveal — Zuko's arc landing, Toph in live action for the first time — multiplies when there's someone next to you to grab. Find your watch party before June 25th: anime clubs, gaming bars, fan Discord servers organizing viewing nights, venues that do watch party events for major streaming drops. San Diego and LA have enough genre-community infrastructure that watch parties for a show this size will exist — look on Eventbrite, look on Meetup, look in the Avatar fan communities that have been waiting since Season 1 ended. If you can't find one, host one. Eight episodes drop the same day. Pick your room, pick your people, have everything ready before the first episode loads. The first watch with a room full of people who care is the one you remember.

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Outdoor Movie: Bridesmaids

Jun 27, 2026 $15-25 4700 Western Heritage Way, The Aut…

Street Food Cinema closes out its June run with Bridesmaids at The Autry Museum in Griffith Park on Saturday, June 27, 2026. Doors open at 6:00 PM; film begins at dusk around 8:30 PM. The 2011 Paul Feig comedy written by and starring Kristen Wiig remains one of the most rewatchable ensemble comedies of its generation. Outdoors, with food and wine flowing and a crowd that has memorized every scene, it becomes a genuine event rather than a rewatch. The Autry Museum of the American West is located at 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027, in Griffith Park. Bring a blanket or low-back chairs and stake out your spot after doors open. On-site food vendors, craft beverages, and a pre-show DJ are all part of the Street Food Cinema experience. Parking is available throughout Griffith Park. Tickets are sold through the Street Food Cinema website and sell out reliably, so advance purchase is strongly recommended.

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35th Annual Murrieta Birthday Bash 2026

Jun 27, 2026 Free 40600 California Oaks Road, Murrie…

Every June, the city of Murrieta throws itself a birthday party at California Oaks Sports Park -- and 35 years in, it has not gotten old. The 35th Annual Murrieta Birthday Bash on June 27, 2026 runs from 2 PM to 9 PM and packs in a Kid Zone, a Firefighter Hosedown, local vendors, live music from an opening act and a headlining band, and a fireworks show at 9 PM that closes the night the way a summer night should close. Free to attend, rain or shine. Murrieta incorporated in 1991, and this is how the city has marked the occasion every year since -- the people who came as kids now bring their own, and the people who grew up here and moved away still come back for this one. California Oaks Sports Park holds the whole thing without breaking a sweat: open grass, room for everyone, and a sky wide enough for the fireworks to do their job.

SOUL COMIX CON 2026 — Leimert Park Los Angeles

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SOUL COMIX CON 2026 — Leimert Park Los Angeles

Jun 27, 2026 Barbara Morrison Performing Arts C…

SOUL COMIX CON is a comics festival dedicated to celebrating Black creators, Black characters, and Black storytelling across the comics medium. Organized by DP COMIX and held at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center in Leimert Park, one of Los Angeles's most important African American cultural neighborhoods, SOUL COMIX CON brings together indie comics, superhero comics, and graphic novels by Black artists and writers. Attendees can meet Black comic book creators in person, purchase original artwork and limited-edition prints directly from the artists who made them, and discover independent comics that are not available at any chain retailer. A cosplay party is included in the programming, with a focus on characters from Black-created and Black-led comics properties. Family-friendly and all ages. Saturday June 27, 11am to 5pm. Free or low-cost admission. Leimert Park is accessible by Metro and is one of the city's premier destinations for Black art, culture, and community. SOUL COMIX CON represents the kind of niche community gathering that is the reason Falkor exists — a room full of people who care deeply about the same thing, assembled for one afternoon.

OFF ROAD NIGHTS Dirt Lifestyle Expo 2026 — Temecula

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OFF ROAD NIGHTS Dirt Lifestyle Expo 2026 — Temecula

Jun 27, 2026 Free admission 40820 Winchester Road, Temecula, C…

Temecula's off-road and dirt lifestyle community takes over The Promenade on June 27, 2026. OFF ROAD NIGHTS Dirt Lifestyle Expo is SoCal's dedicated gathering for the off-road, overlanding, and dirt lifestyle community — a full-day outdoor event running 1 PM to 9 PM at The Promenade Temecula (40820 Winchester Road, Temecula, CA 92591). The ORN Expo brings together industry-leading vendors, cutting-edge off-road builds, and the kind of crowd that builds trails on weekends and lives in the desert on long weekends. Expect: a featured car show with off-road rigs from desert runners to overlanding builds, Freestyle Moto Shows, live music throughout the afternoon and evening, hands-on product demos from brands at the front edge of the dirt lifestyle space, and a full vendor floor covering gear, accessories, and builds. Free admission for spectators. Pre-registration available for vehicle display at ornscene.com. Vendor applications open for booth spots and the car show. Contact: [email protected]. The 2026 edition returns with a new location at The Promenade — more room, better parking flow, and a main stage setup that works into the evening. The off-road community in the Temecula/Murrieta area is one of the most active in SoCal; this is the event where that community meets in person. Whether you're a weekend warrior with a lifted truck or building your first overland rig, the crowd at ORN is the crowd that actually does this stuff.

Deuces Wild Charity Car Show & Poker Run 2026

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Deuces Wild Charity Car Show & Poker Run 2026

Jun 27, 2026 Free 31300 Rancho Community Way, Temecu…

Every year, Mission Hope fills a school parking lot in Temecula with classics, customs, exotics, and daily drivers — and every year, the community shows up. The Deuces Wild Charity Car Show & Poker Run is one of Temecula's most beloved annual car events: a free show that combines a scenic poker run through Temecula wine country with a full showfield, live music, vendors, and a 50/50 raffle, all in support of a food pantry that serves local children, families, and seniors. Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM Venue: Rancho Christian School, 31300 Rancho Community Way, Temecula, CA 92592 Admission: Free and open to the public The poker run takes participants through Temecula Valley backroads — wine-country stretches with mountain views that turn a morning drive into a destination. Back at Rancho Christian School, the car show runs alongside vendor booths, trophy presentations, and community programming organized by Mission Hope. Car classes span everything from muscle cars and lowriders to trucks, motorcycles, and ratrod builds. Registration is open to all makes and models. The event atmosphere leans family-friendly and community-first — this is Temecula's car culture gathering for people who actually live here, not a corporate brand activation. Proceeds directly fund the Mission Hope food pantry serving Murrieta, Temecula, and surrounding areas.

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Pixar’s Toy Story 5

Jun 19 – Jun 21, 2026 From $15 Major theaters nationwide, USA

Pixar built an entire generation's imagination. The Toy Story films taught children how to feel things before they had the vocabulary for it — what it means to be loved, to be left behind, to grow up, to let go. Toy Story 5 opens June 19th, 2026 at theaters nationwide, from $15, and it is arriving into a world where the people who grew up with Woody and Buzz are now the ones buying the tickets. There is a specific experience that happens in a theater during a Pixar film that doesn't exist anywhere else. Adults who thought they were just bringing their kids find themselves caught completely off guard at the end of act two. The person next to you laughs at the same moment you do. Someone in the back left section cries and makes everyone else feel something too. The shared reaction is part of the film. Opening weekend is when that energy is fullest. The theater is full of people who waited, who have opinions already, who will want to talk about it immediately after. From $15 at theaters everywhere. See it with someone who will need to process it afterward. That's the right way to watch a Pixar film — not later, not at home, in the room with everyone else while it's still new.

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San Diego Craft Beer Week 2026

Jun 13 – Jun 21, 2026 Varies by venue; many free Multiple Venues, San Diego, CA 921…

Forty years of arguing that this is America's craft beer capital comes due for nine days in June, when a few dozen separate rooms quietly start behaving like a single organism. That is the difference between this and a beer festival. There is no field with tents in it. Taprooms, breweries, bars, and restaurants across North Park, Barrio Logan, Little Italy, and East Village each throw their own thing at once — tastings, pairings, brewer meet-and-greets — and the collaborations that fall out of it are what people still talk about years later. Two brewers happen to be standing at the same bar, and the result is a limited release that exists for nine days and then never again. You can cross the city all week and never repeat a pour. The full schedule lives on the official San Diego Craft Beer Week site. Many tastings are free with purchase; ticketed events vary by venue. Start at whatever taproom is closest to your house and follow the beer from there. Bring the friend who thinks they already know this city.

SD International Beer Festival — Grand Tasting

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SD International Beer Festival — Grand Tasting

Jun 21, 2026 From $65 NTC Park Liberty Station, San Dieg…

Liberty Station at dusk does something to beer. The old naval buildings, the open green space, the marine layer rolling in off the bay — it makes a tasting feel like a celebration instead of a transaction. The San Diego International Beer Festival Grand Tasting runs June 22, 2026 — evening session at NTC Park at Liberty Station, $65, the city's finest craft pours in one of San Diego's most beautiful outdoor settings. The Grand Tasting is the flagship night: special and limited releases that don't appear at the weekend sessions, poured by the brewers themselves. San Diego has more craft breweries per capita than almost any city in the country, and this event assembles the best of them in one place. Seventy-plus breweries. Unlimited tastings within the session window. Food trucks on site. The crowd skews toward people who can tell you the difference between a hazy IPA and a New England IPA and why it matters. Wear layers — it cools fast at Liberty Station once the sun drops. Tickets at sdinterbeerfest.com — not Ticketmaster or Eventbrite. Buy in advance; the Grand Tasting sells out most years. Limited capacity ensures the event stays walkable and lines stay manageable. Designated driver tickets are available. Plan to arrive at opening — early access means first pour at the freshest kegs before the evening crowd builds.

Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade 2026

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Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade 2026

Jun 20 – Jun 21, 2026 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

A rule sits at the center of this thing that would quietly kill most American parades: nothing with an engine, no company logos, and nobody running for office anywhere in the procession. Strip all of that out and whatever is left has to be made by hand, by people, for free. Which is the point, and why it has kept happening on volunteer labor since the seventies. So State Street fills instead with enormous handmade floats pushed along by the humans who built them, costumes assembled over months, drum ensembles you feel in the sternum, and performers who wander into the crowd rather than past it. A city throwing a party for itself and forgetting to invite the sponsors. Alameda Park carries the rest of the weekend — hundreds of local artists showing work, stages running, families on blankets, all of it free. Come around midday and give yourself time to find a curb. Send it to the friend who insists nothing unbought survives in California anymore.

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626 Night Market — Arcadia (June 2026)

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The heat comes off the asphalt and the whole lot smells like ten countries at once — charcoal and frying oil and brown sugar and something skewered you cannot name yet but will be eating in four minutes. This is the night the San Gabriel Valley throws its doors open, and if you grew up near it, walking in feels less like arriving at an event than coming home to one. Thirteen years and 2.3 million people through the gates have made it an institution. The food is the gravity. Hundreds of stalls, the forty-minute lines worth every minute, the one you only find because a stranger two people ahead told you to. But it is not only food: indie artists, fashion racks, live sets, and a crowd that finally looks like the actual breadth of Asian-American Southern California instead of a sliver of it. June 19-21, 2026, 3 to 11 PM nightly. Santa Anita Park, 285 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia — off the 210, parking on-site. Entry about $6, cash past the gate. Come hungry enough to regret nothing.

Kinfolk Fest — Juneteenth San Diego 2026

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Jun 20, 2026 Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy,…

Most festivals put a headliner on a poster and build the day around whoever that is. This one puts the businesses in the center and lets the DJs run underneath the whole afternoon, which turns it into something closer to a block party where everybody happens to be selling what they make. Food, apparel, art, beauty, wellness, home goods, all of it from local and regional Black-owned vendors, with San Diego Bay sitting behind the tables. SD Melanin has been running this version of Juneteenth long enough that it now anchors the city's Black summer calendar, and the people working the booths know each other by name. Come early if you want to actually cover the market instead of skimming it. Waterfront Park, twenty-one and up, details at sdmelanin.com, and the trolley beats hunting for parking on Harbor Drive. Bring the friend who keeps saying San Diego does not have this.

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San Diego International Beer Festival

Jun 20, 2026 From $55 NTC Park Liberty Station, San Dieg…

San Diego did not invent craft beer, but it convinced the rest of the country to take it seriously. The San Diego International Beer Festival at NTC Park at Liberty Station is where that argument arrives at a single afternoon — 150+ breweries pouring simultaneously, California institutions beside out-of-state upstarts beside small-batch experiments that are not in distribution yet and may never be. The format is honest: one tasting glass, open pours, and a full afternoon to move through the tables at whatever pace you set. The range matters. The names you already know are there — the institutions, the award-winners, the breweries whose cans fill every bottle shop in the county. But the experimental tables are where San Diego beer is actually going: the collabs, the adjuncts, the wild ales, the one-offs brewed specifically for this weekend. Those tables are worth finding early. NTC Park sits on the grounds of the former Naval Training Center, open air at the edge of Mission Hills with room to breathe between pours. June in San Diego means low 70s and clear sky. This is the right festival in the right city at the right time of year. June 20, 2026 at NTC Park, Liberty Station, San Diego. Tickets at sdinternationalbeerfestival.com.

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LA Roadster Show 2026 – Pomona Fairplex

Jun 19 – Jun 20, 2026 Fairplex at Pomona, Pomona, CA

Most car shows mix everything together and call the variety a feature. This one refuses, and the refusal is why it looks the way it does. Roadsters only. Open-body traditional hot rods in the style of the 1930s, 40s and 50s — the shape American car culture keeps returning to. Holding that line for six decades has produced something closer to a living museum than a show field: every car in visual conversation with every other car, no era drift, no exceptions made. The builds carry weight. Many of these have been in the same family for decades, or represent one person's entire lifetime of work on a single machine. The owners are standing right there, and they will tell you. The swap meet runs alongside, filling additional lots with parts, memorabilia, tools and vintage automotive goods for builders and collectors. Fairplex at Pomona. Gates 9 AM both days, ample parking across the fairgrounds, admission at the gate. Bring somebody who thinks they do not care about cars.

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