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San Diego Padres vs LA Dodgers at Petco Park — September Rivalry

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San Diego Padres vs LA Dodgers at Petco Park — September Rivalry

Sep 22, 2026 100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

The Dodgers return to Petco Park on September 22 for the final regular-season rivalry series — and by the last Tuesday of September, this is not background baseball. Padres vs Dodgers in the third week of September is the series that can decide the NL West title or lock in Wild Card positions, and every seat at Petco Park is filled with fans who have been waiting for this specific match-up since June. The Dodger blue in the away section is extensive and vocal. The Padres faithful are louder. The scoreboard in other parks is checked between every half-inning. This is September baseball at Petco Park at its most consequential — the rivalry that San Diego has been conducting with Los Angeles for thirty years arriving at the moment when it matters most. See you at the park. Buy your ticket early.

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Bourbon & Beyond 2026 — Louisville, KY

Sep 24 – Sep 27, 2026 Highland Festival Grounds at KY Ex…

The world's largest bourbon festival is also a music festival. Four days in Louisville in September — the spirits and the lineup arrive at the same time. Bourbon & Beyond is the kind of festival where the person next to you at the bourbon bar is a distillery master, and the person on your other side just drove from Nashville. The festival occupies four days of Louisville's late September, when the weather is near-perfect. The food program is legitimately excellent — James Beard nominees, regional pit masters, dishes designed specifically around bourbon pairings. The music stages run simultaneously, meaning you'll make hard choices about what to sacrifice. Diehard fans treat it like a 96-hour sprint across music, food, and whiskey in optimal conditions. The energy is hard to describe without experiencing it: this is what happens when a city decides to celebrate its defining cultural export and invites the whole country. If bourbon is already part of your identity — not just something you drink, but something you care about — Bourbon & Beyond is a pilgrimage. The depth of brand access and education available here doesn't exist anywhere else outside of private distillery tours. The music lineup is genuinely excellent; this is not a regional festival using bourbon as a gimmick. The 2026 headliners would anchor any standalone music festival. If you're the kind of person who plans a long weekend around a great concert, add two more concerts and 100 bourbons — and you have Bourbon & Beyond. Louisville in late September is mild and manageable. VIP experiences include reserved seating, express lines at bourbon stations, and dedicated tasting sessions with master distillers. General admission includes full festival access and bourbon tasting. Book hotels early — Louisville fills for this. Flying into Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport is easiest (adjacent to the venue). Designated driver plans exist; Lyft and Uber are abundant. Flying in with a group and sharing a hotel a few blocks from the Expo Center is the move most veterans make. Bourbon & Beyond works as a cultural product because bourbon itself has become identity. The category went from a grandfather's drink to the emblematic American spirit of intentional, domestic craft — and Bourbon & Beyond is the annual celebration of that identity shift. You don't have to be a bourbon expert to feel it. You just have to be the kind of person who takes what they drink seriously and wants to spend four days with the best version of that community. September 24–27, 2026, at the Highland Festival Grounds, Louisville, KY. Passes at bourbonandbeyond.com.

Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

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Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2026 Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 …

The oldest continuously running jazz festival in the world has been held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds since 1958. Sixty-nine years of outdoor jazz on the Monterey Bay. The experience is one of productive wandering. You build your own schedule across five stages spread through the fairgrounds, stumbling into performances you did not plan and discovering artists you will listen to for the rest of your life. Evenings at the main arena carry the weight of history -- musicians who have played here include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holiday. The setting adds its own texture: Monterey fog rolls in at night, temperatures drop dramatically, and the crowd wraps itself in jackets and blankets without missing a note. The daytime has a wine-country ease to it -- Thai and Jamaican food stalls, local Monterey County wines poured at on-site tastings, and a crowd that ranges from jazz scholars to families simply drawn in by a beautiful September weekend on the California coast. If you love music discovery and the pleasure of experiencing something with genuine cultural history, Monterey Jazz is worth every dollar. The Grounds Pass is the insider move -- it gives access to all five stages and most artists, and the unexpected discoveries in the smaller tents are often the sets people remember longest. This is not for people who need a massive headliner to justify the weekend. It is for people who understand that the best music experiences are the ones nobody planned. The lineup rewards depth over spectacle. Bring layers. Monterey evenings can drop into the 50s even in September -- veterans pack a waterproof jacket, gloves, and a stadium seat cushion for concrete bleachers. Use the remote parking lots and the free festival shuttle instead of attempting to park close. The venue is cashless. Food lines move quickly in early afternoon but back up significantly at dinner. The free Monterey Jazz Festival app carries the full schedule with filtering by stage and time -- download it before you arrive and use the My Lineup feature to avoid schedule conflicts. Cashless payments only, so load up a card before you go. Monterey Jazz Festival is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it represents something rare in American culture: a living institution. Sixty-eight years of continuous programming makes this not just a festival but a timestamp -- every year it runs, the art form gets another year of documentation. When Miles Davis played here in 1964 or Herbie Hancock in 2019, those nights are now part of the permanent record. Attending in 2026 means adding yourself to that record. Tickets and full lineup at montereyjazzfestival.org.

New York Film Festival 2026 — New York, NY

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New York Film Festival 2026 — New York, NY

Sep 25 – Oct 12, 2026 Film at Lincoln Center, 165 W 65th…

Eighteen days at Lincoln Center in the fall. The New York Film Festival has been selecting films without competitive categories since 1963 — no awards, just the films the programmers decided mattered this year. The Main Slate premieres at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center — a 1,000-seat hall with some of the best sight lines and acoustics of any cinema venue in America. The post-screening Q&As with directors and cast are NYFF's most distinctive feature: these are not promotional appearances. They are genuine conversations about how films get made, what they mean, and what the filmmakers were reaching toward. The press conference format becomes, in the right moment, something more interesting than either party expected. The festival also programs a parallel section, Convergence, dedicated to immersive and experimental work, and a Revivals series that presents restored classic films alongside the new work. NYFF is for the film enthusiast who treats cinema as the art form it is — not content, not IP, but a form of human expression that requires the kind of attention the festival demands and rewards. It is for the person who wants to see the films that will define the awards conversation before the campaign season begins. It is for anyone who has sat in a dark room and felt something shift in how they understood the world. If any of those sentences describe you, the NYFF calendar is worth knowing. New York in late September is mild — jacket weather, perfect for walking the Lincoln Center campus between screenings. Single-ticket sales open to the public approximately two weeks before the festival; passes go on sale earlier. Film at Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, is on the Upper West Side, accessible by subway (1 train to 66th Street/Lincoln Center). Hotel options throughout Manhattan; Airbnb in the Upper West Side neighborhoods puts you walking distance from the venues. The New York Film Festival earns its place on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it is the clearest evidence that serious cinema remains a living thing — that somewhere, every year, the world's most accomplished filmmakers are making work that demands to be seen in the right room with the right attention. The 64th edition will include films that win major awards, films that define the critical conversation of 2027, and films that haven't been made in the mode before. Knowing which films they are before anyone else is the only advantage the NYFF calendar gives you. Tickets and passes at filmlinc.org.

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State Fair of Texas 2026 — Dallas, TX

Sep 25 – Oct 19, 2026 22 Fair Park, 3921 Martin Luther King…

Twenty-four days. More total attendance than any other state fair in America. A new fried food every year, and the city of Dallas reorganizing its calendar around it. Fair Park is a permanent venue of architectural significance — a 277-acre National Historic Landmark built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, featuring 50 buildings of Art Deco design that serve as the fair's permanent infrastructure. The experience is enormous in every dimension: 150+ food vendors including the annual Fried Food Competition whose winners become national food media stories, livestock exhibitions on genuine agricultural scale, a midway larger than most county fair grounds, and the Cotton Bowl stadium hosting the Red River Rivalry game between Texas and Oklahoma during fair week — one of the most attended college football rivalries in the country. The State Fair of Texas has operated continuously since 1886. This is for people who want to understand Texas — and by extension, a significant portion of American identity — from the inside. Texas pride is not a tourism concept here; it's the air the fair breathes. If you're from Texas, this is homecoming. If you're not, it's one of the most genuinely immersive cultural experiences available in the country. The fair is not for people who want curation or sophistication — it's for people who want scale, authenticity, and the particular pleasure of sharing space with two million people who are genuinely happy to be exactly where they are. The Cotton Bowl game (Red River Rivalry, typically early October) is peak week for attendance — visit mid-week in late September for the best experience-to-crowd ratio. The Fried Food Competition results are announced in early October; visiting afterward means eating the year's winning creation. DART light rail provides direct access to Fair Park. Buy Big Tex passes on the official site in advance for savings. The Creative Arts and Agriculture buildings are undervisited by casual fairgoers and worth two hours each. The State Fair of Texas is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because nowhere in America holds 24 days of this kind of sustained, genuine community celebration. Most people outside the South have never seriously considered the Texas State Fair as a destination. They should. The combination of historic Fair Park, Texas culture at full volume, Big Tex, and the country's most creative fried food competition creates a context you cannot access anywhere else. September 25 – October 18, 2026, Fair Park, Dallas, TX. Tickets and schedule at bigtex.com.

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Padres vs. Colorado Rockies

Sep 25, 2026 From $25 100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

Petco Park roars for another Padres home stand. San Diego's lineup is stacked — grab your seats, grab your fish tacos, and watch the Friars play ball in one of baseball's most beautiful ballparks. Gates open 90 minutes before first pitch. Tonight's matchup: Padres vs. Colorado Rockies. Season Finale Weekend.

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LA Galaxy vs. Minnesota United

Sep 26, 2026 From $35 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

Dignity Health Sports Park shakes under Galaxy's home crowd. The most storied club in MLS history, playing in the heart of SoCal. Tailgate in the parking lot, hear the Riot Squad chants, and watch world-class soccer under the California sun (or floodlights). Tonight's match: LA Galaxy vs. Minnesota United. Playoffs on the Line.

LA Galaxy vs Colorado Rapids at Dignity Health Sports Park

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LA Galaxy vs Colorado Rapids at Dignity Health Sports Park

Sep 26, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

The LA Galaxy host Colorado Rapids at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson on September 26 — a late-season home match with real playoff implications on both sides. Colorado has quietly become one of the Western Conference's more consistent performers, and by the last weekend of September, a point separates conference positions in ways that matter for seeding, first-round byes, and the draw. Galaxy supporters pack Dignity Health Sports Park for these September Saturday matches with the particular intensity of people who understand exactly what is at stake. The atmosphere inside the stadium in the last weeks of the regular season is different from any other time of year — sharper, more focused, the crowd reading the clock more carefully. For a fan base that has watched this club win five MLS Cups, the expectation in September is not just to compete but to close. Three points on September 26 keep that possibility alive.

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The Horror Show — Academy Museum

Sep 27 – Jul 25, 2027 Academy Museum of Motion Pictures,…

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is the institution that holds the history of cinema — every artifact, every production archive, every piece of evidence that the films you love were made by real people in real rooms. "The Horror Show" opens at 6067 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, and it brings that institutional weight to the genre that deserves it most. Horror is the most technically demanding genre in film. The practical effects, the cinematography choices, the sound design decisions that make something frightening rather than merely dark — these are craft problems that the best horror filmmakers solved with ingenuity and intention. The Academy Museum exhibits the solutions: original props, behind-the-scenes materials, restored footage, and the curatorial framing that treats horror as the serious art form it is. Seeing the monster up close, understanding how the scare was built, walking through the artifacts of a genre you've watched in the dark for years — this is the exhibition that rewards the people who take horror seriously. Check academymuseum.org for ticket details and exhibition dates. September in Los Angeles means warm evenings and the museum district at its best. Plan to stay for the full exhibition. There is more here than one visit holds, and the building itself — Renzo Piano's glass and concrete and light — earns the trip before the first artifact.

Aftershock Festival 2026 — Sacramento, CA

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Aftershock Festival 2026 — Sacramento, CA

Oct 1 – Oct 4, 2026 Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA 958…

Discovery Park, Sacramento, four days in October. Aftershock is North America's largest hard rock and metal festival — the one where the genre doesn't have to justify itself. The setting is unusually right for this music: Discovery Park sits at the confluence of two rivers, with Sacramento's skyline visible and a vast open field that turns into a moshing city for four days. There's a particular atmosphere at Aftershock that fans of the genre describe as their version of homecoming — the feeling of being in a room with people who all made the same nerdy, devoted, slightly antisocial choice to love this music and ended up belonging somewhere because of it. The lineup hierarchy is explicit: headliners are genuine legends (past lineups have featured Metallica, Tool, KISS, Guns N' Roses), and the undercard has historically included acts that go on to headline two to three years later. Fans use the undercard like a scouting report. If you have spent any time in heavy music — from classic metal to modern rock to the punk-adjacent edges of the scene — Aftershock is the annual reference point. The production quality is festival-level, not venue-level; the sound systems and stage setups are genuine spectacles. This is not a festival for casual rock listeners. It is for people who have opinions about guitar tones and setlists and who have argued about who should close Saturday night. If that sounds like you, this festival will feel like a reunion with several thousand people who share your exact priorities. Sacramento in early October is perfect festival weather — warm days, cool evenings. Discovery Park offers on-site camping, which most Aftershock veterans recommend: the day-to-day commute logistics disappear and the four-day immersion becomes total. VIP options exist but general admission gets you everywhere that matters. Arrive Thursday for the full opener sets — the Thursday lineup consistently punches above its placement and regular attendees treat it as mandatory. Aftershock earns its place on Falkor's Nation's Best list because the hard rock and metal community is one of the most devoted fan ecosystems in American music, and this is their Coachella. Every year artists release albums timed to the Aftershock window. Every year bands return to Sacramento specifically for this event. Knowing Aftershock exists and knowing who is on the lineup is how you track the current state of rock music in America. Whether you go or you track the lineup from home, the festival is a cultural measuring stick for a genre that runs deeper than its mainstream coverage suggests. Tickets available on Ticketmaster.

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Trading Card Con San Diego 2026

Oct 2 – Oct 4, 2026 25.0 San Diego, CA (venue TBA — check t…

Somewhere between the person who has every card graded and sleeved, and the one who pulls out a binder at dinner to show what they found, is the person Trading Card Con was designed for. Trading Card Con San Diego runs October 2-4, 2026 -- three days of buying, selling, trading, and being around people who take the hobby as seriously as you do. Badge tiers range from $25 day passes to $200 weekend League Badges, which says something about who shows up: this is not a flea market with trading cards at one table. It is a dedicated collector event built around the TCG community. The experience covers Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, sports cards, and the full range of collectibles that orbit the hobby. Tournament play, vendor halls, and the kind of floor conversations that happen when you put serious collectors in the same room. San Diego's collector community is active and established -- the same scene that fills Front Row Card Show in September and Card Party earlier in the year. If you have been waiting for an October event that treats the hobby as the point, not the backdrop, this is the one. Three days. Full collector floor. San Diego. Weekend Badge: $40 in advance. Day Badge: $25. Gym Badge ($100) and League Badge ($200) for full experience tiers. Tickets at tradingcardcon.com.

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ComplexCon 2026 — Los Angeles

Oct 3 – Oct 4, 2026 Los Angeles, CA

ComplexCon turns 10 in Los Angeles on October 3-4, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event the New York Times called Streetwear Disneyland celebrates a decade with its biggest edition yet -- exclusive product drops, live performances, brand activations, and every name in street culture under one roof. The ComplexCon floor is organized around drops: brands release limited-edition products on-site that cannot be purchased anywhere else. Lines form before doors open for the most anticipated releases. Beyond the drops, the convention features live music performances, sneaker customization stations, art installations, food, and a speaker lineup drawn from fashion, music, and sports. The Los Angeles Convention Center is at 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, accessible via the EXPO/Convention Center Metro station. Tickets are available at complexcon.com. Weekend and single-day badges are offered. For those prioritizing specific drops, research the brand release schedule before attending and arrive early for the highest-demand items -- ComplexCon drops are genuinely limited and sell out on the floor.

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ComplexCon 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

Oct 3 – Oct 4, 2026 Long Beach Convention Center, Long…

ComplexCon 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the world's premier convergence culture festival, returning to Long Beach on October 3 and 4. In a decade, ComplexCon has become the most culturally dense weekend event in the United States: two days where streetwear, sneakers, music, art, food, and the creators behind all of it occupy the same space simultaneously. The experience is structured chaos. The convention floor is a marketplace of rare drops and exclusive collaborations from brands that do not sell like this anywhere else. On any given hour, a sneaker brand is dropping a colorway while a musician performs fifty feet away while an artist signs prints in limited quantity at a pop-up while a food vendor from a city the crowd knows only by reputation serves a six-hour line. ComplexCon does not sequence this. It is designed to feel like everything is happening at once, because it is. ComplexCon is worth attending for anyone who participates in the intersection of streetwear, music, and contemporary art. It is not for the person who wants curated, low-crowd experiences. The crowd is the point. The density is intentional. You go to ComplexCon to be inside the culture. What to know: tickets sell out significantly in advance, particularly weekend passes. Lines for exclusive brand drops start forming before doors open. Bring comfortable shoes and a bag. Food options are genuinely good. Music programming runs through both evenings and is included with admission. Plan for crowds at every stage. The 10-year anniversary edition is expected to be the largest ComplexCon yet, bringing back brand partnerships and exclusives from the first few years. For collectors and culture participants, this edition carries historical weight: a decade of a format that was created to bring the internet's most influential communities into a shared physical space. ComplexCon is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it is the rare event where cultural identity is the primary product. The merch is evidence. The performances are signal. But the real transaction happening all weekend is the same one that happens on Falkor: people discovering that what they care about is also cared about by thousands of others, in person, all at once.

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ComplexCon 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

Oct 3 – Oct 4, 2026 Long Beach Convention Center, Long…

Del Mar Wine + Food Festival 2026 — Grand Tasting

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Del Mar Wine + Food Festival 2026 — Grand Tasting

Oct 3 – Oct 4, 2026 Varies — see delmar.wine for current packages 14989 Via De La Valle, Del Mar, CA…

Two days in early October, the Surf Sports Park in Del Mar becomes the best table in San Diego. Del Mar Wine + Food Festival is one of Southern California's most anticipated food-and-wine weekends — an outdoor grand tasting that brings together winemakers, chefs, and the SoCal food community in a setting that makes the whole thing feel more like a dinner party than a convention. The Grand Tasting runs October 3–4, 2026, at Surf Sports Park, 14989 Via De La Valle, Del Mar, CA 92014. The park sits close to the Del Mar racetrack and opens to ocean breezes from the coast — the kind of venue that makes the wine taste better by proximity. Tickets are available at delmar.wine in Tasting Packages that include access to both days or individual day options. The festival features 50+ wineries pouring alongside curated food pairings from San Diego-area chefs. Categories span Coastal California varietals, Baja wine, and international selections — the winemaker presence is hands-on and tasting-floor conversations tend to run long. A full week of smaller dinners, chef collaborations, and intimate tasting events lead up to the Grand Tasting weekend. If your entry point to this world is food-first rather than wine-first, the Grand Tasting works for you too — a rotating lineup of local restaurants and culinary vendors means there is always something worth eating between pours.

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San Diego FC vs. San Jose Earthquakes

Oct 3, 2026 From $25 2601 Murphy Canyon Rd, San Diego, …

San Diego FC — the city's MLS expansion club, playing at Snapdragon Stadium. Year 2 of the best new team story in American soccer. The supporter sections are loud, the atmosphere is electric, and San Diego finally has top-flight soccer. Come be part of the foundation of something that'll matter for decades. Tonight's match: San Diego FC vs. San Jose Earthquakes. California Derby — Season Finale.

$uicideboy$ Grey Day Tour 2026 — Glen Helen Amphitheater

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$uicideboy$ Grey Day Tour 2026 — Glen Helen Amphitheater

Oct 3, 2026 Glen Helen Amphitheater, 2575 Glen…

$uicideboy$ bring their annual Grey Day Tour to Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino for one of the most anticipated underground rap events of the year. The New Orleans duo — Ruby da Cherry and Scrim — built one of the most loyal fanbases in alternative rap by bypassing mainstream channels entirely, cultivating a global community through raw production, Southern Gothic imagery, and unflinching honesty about addiction, mental health, and mortality. Grey Day is their annual homecoming — a festival-style event that doubles as a collective catharsis for the community they built. The 2026 lineup features $uicideboy$ headlining alongside Shoreline Mafia, Shakewell, Drain, Black Kray, and $lim Gucci — a full day of underground rap, metal-influenced production, and the chaotic energy that defines the G*59 Records extended universe. Glen Helen Amphitheater seats over 65,000 and has hosted Download Festival and Rock in Rio USA — the outdoor venue gives Grey Day the scale it has earned. Doors typically open at 3 PM. The crowd skews 18-30, the floor general admission section fills early. Parking is available on-site. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. This event regularly sells out — buy before the on-sale window closes.

aespa SYNK: COMPLæXITY World Tour – Los Angeles

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aespa SYNK: COMPLæXITY World Tour – Los Angeles

Oct 3, 2026 Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA

aespa brings their SYNK:COMPLaXITY world tour to Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California on October 3, 2026. The four-member SM Entertainment group — Karina, Giselle, Winter, and Ningning — is one of fourth-generation K-pop's highest-profile acts, known for arena-scale productions, heavy visual staging, and their alternate-universe narrative involving digital avatar alter-egos. The SYNK:COMPLaXITY tour represents their largest North American arena run. aespa's fanbase (MY) is known for high engagement and fan infrastructure that extends well beyond the arena: cupsleeve events, fan project meetups, and unofficial gatherings in Koreatown typically precede and follow major SoCal performances. Check the K-pop community boards for satellite event listings in the weeks before the show. Intuit Dome in Inglewood opened in 2024 and is one of SoCal's most technically advanced arenas, designed for both sports and major concert productions. Located 10 minutes from LAX and 20 minutes from Koreatown. Parking: Intuit Dome has an integrated 5,700-space parking structure — mobile pre-paid parking is recommended since it sells out for major events. Metro C Line (Green) Hawthorne/Lennox station is a 10-minute walk. Rideshare drop-off is available via the dedicated zone on Prairie Ave. Tickets on Ticketmaster. K-pop fans: the fan event layer around this show in Koreatown and Sawtelle will be significant — follow the kpop-socal community for cupsleeve and fan event announcements.

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