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World Series 2026 Game 1

Oct 19, 2026 From $900 TBD — American League champion hom…

The World Series opens in October — the American and National League champions meeting for the championship that baseball builds toward for seven months. Game 1 is the clearest version of the Fall Classic: the rotation lined up, the crowd at its most nervous, the whole series still ahead. The teams who earn this stage have survived more than enough to deserve what it feels like to play in it.

2026 MONSTA X WORLD TOUR [THE X : NEXUS] - Los Angeles

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2026 MONSTA X WORLD TOUR [THE X : NEXUS] - Los Angeles

Oct 20, 2026 3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood,…

MONSTA X bring their THE X : NEXUS World Tour to The Kia Forum in Inglewood, California on October 20, 2026 -- one of the group's largest North American venues to date on their 10-city US leg. Monsta X (Shownu, Minhyuk, Kihyun, Hyungwon, Joohoney, and I.M) are known for powerful choreography, versatile musical range from hip-hop to R&B to dance-pop, and one of K-pop's most passionate fanbases -- MONBEBE -- who turn every arena into a coordinated sea of green. The X : NEXUS tour arrives at a high point for the group, with strong international momentum across streaming and live performance. The Kia Forum is located at 3900 W. Manchester Blvd in Inglewood, near SoFi Stadium. It is accessible by car off the 405, with ample paid parking on-site. Public transit options from Los Angeles include the Metro C Line (Green) to Hawthorne/Lennox Station. Doors typically open 60-90 minutes before showtime. MONBEBE fan projects -- banners, slogans, photocard events -- are organized before each show on Reddit r/MonstaX and the Starship official fan community. This is the only Southern California stop on the tour. General admission floor and reserved seating tiers are available. Tickets via Ticketmaster and Live Nation.

Formula 1 United States Grand Prix 2026 -- Austin, TX

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Formula 1 United States Grand Prix 2026 -- Austin, TX

Oct 23 – Oct 25, 2026 $150+ Circuit of the Americas, 9201 Circ…

Circuit of The Americas is the only purpose-built Formula 1 track in the United States. Three days in October, the fastest cars in the world, and Austin's entire cultural identity arriving at once. COTA in October is genuinely unlike any other American sporting event. The sound of V6 turbo-hybrid engines at full throttle is a physical experience -- felt in the chest before it registers in the ears. The track's dramatic elevation change through the first section gives spectators on the hill at Turn 1 a view of the entire opening complex. Music headliners perform after qualifying and after the race (2026: Maroon 5 on Friday, Post Malone on Saturday). The paddock walkthrough, driver appearances, and simulator experiences make the non-race days worth attending on their own terms. The Austin setting -- music venues, barbecue, the Colorado River greenway -- absorbs the overflow and turns race weekend into a city-wide event. F1 at COTA is worth it if you have any interest in motorsport, engineering, or the kind of spectacle that only comes from 20 of the world's best drivers competing for hundredths of a second in machines that cost $400 million per team to operate. The General Admission grounds pass gives full access to most of the track; grandstand seats put you at specific turns. Turn 1 grandstand and the Main Grandstand opposite the pit lane are the premium views. Budget: grounds pass $150-250; grandstand $400+. COTA is 10 miles southeast of downtown Austin -- Uber/Lyft surges heavily on race day; the circuit's park-and-ride from Palmer Events Center or Camp Mabry is the most reliable option. Arrive early: gates open at 8am and the paddock walk window closes fast. Earplugs are not optional -- the cars are genuinely that loud, even with modern hybrid powertrains. Three-day ground passes offer the best value and let you explore the full track layout each day. Formula 1 earns its place on Falkor's Nation's Best list as the only motorsport event where the technology, the sport, and the celebrity culture achieve simultaneous critical mass. The USGP at COTA is where Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have traded the championship on the same track where country bands play the night before. It is sport as theater, engineering as art, and the most international crowd you will find in Texas. Tickets through the Circuit of the Americas official site. October 23-25, 2026.

Angel City FC Home Match — October 24 at BMO Stadium

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Angel City FC Home Match — October 24 at BMO Stadium

Oct 24, 2026 3939 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

October 24 at BMO Stadium is Angel City FC's regular-season home closer — the final home match before the NWSL playoffs determine the season's ultimate shape. The late October atmosphere at BMO carries the cumulative weight of a full regular season: the stories developed across every home match, the players who have become familiar to the crowd, the moments that will be described for years regardless of what happens in the postseason. Angel City's home record at BMO has been earned one match at a time across every season since the club was founded, and the October closer is when the crowd returns the investment by showing up with everything they have. The postseason begins the week after this. October 24 at BMO is the last statement of the regular season.

San Diego FC vs Seattle Sounders at Snapdragon Stadium

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San Diego FC vs Seattle Sounders at Snapdragon Stadium

Oct 24, 2026 9449 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108

On October 24, Snapdragon Stadium hosts San Diego FC against the Seattle Sounders — a Western Conference fixture between the league's most decorated club and the region's most ambitious new one. The Sounders have won MLS Cup multiple times, appeared in the CONCACAF Champions League, and built an institutional culture that makes them one of the standard-bearers of American professional soccer. San Diego FC are building their answer to that standard. By late October, the regular season is effectively over and only final positions remain. Playing the Sounders at home in this moment is the kind of match that tells a club something true about itself — how it handles a capable opponent under pressure, with the season's final chapter being written. Snapdragon in October at night is Mission Valley at its best: the marine layer gone, the temperature perfect, the bowl lit up and full of a crowd that knows exactly what is at stake. This is San Diego FC football in the month that defines the year.

Pokemon Night Out 2026 — Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA

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Pokemon Night Out 2026 — Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA

Oct 24, 2026 Intuit Dome, 888 N Prairie Ave, In…

Pokemon Night Out 2026 — Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA Pokemon Night Out is one of the most unexpected cultural events of 2026: a full-scale EDM concert celebrating Pokemon's 30th anniversary, headlined by Marshmello and Alison Wonderland, at Intuit Dome in Inglewood. This is not a gaming expo, not a convention — it is a 16,000-person arena show designed from the ground up as a Pokemon fan experience, with story-driven audiovisual production, cutting-edge animation, and stage design built around the franchise that has defined childhood for three consecutive generations of fans. The experience is exactly what it sounds like and better than you expect. Imagine the production value of a Super Bowl halftime show filtered through thirty years of Pokemon nostalgia — Marshmello's drops set against Pokemon battle sequences, Alison Wonderland's atmospheric sets backed by evolving visuals, the crowd singing along to music that existed years before most of them were old enough to remember it. This is not a tribute act. This is the official celebration, endorsed by The Pokemon Company, staged at one of the most technically advanced arenas in North America. Is it worth it? If you have any connection to Pokemon — and statistically, you do — yes. The ticket price is steep for a concert. It is reasonable for a once-in-thirty-years cultural moment that combines electronic music, arena spectacle, and genuine nostalgia in a format that has never existed before. If you are the kind of person who still has a Pokemon card somewhere in your house, this event was made for you. If you need to research the performers first, it probably was not. What to know before you go: Tickets range from around 250 to over 1,000 dollars depending on section. Ages 16 and up only. Doors open 90 minutes before the 7:30 PM start at Intuit Dome. The arena is in Inglewood — Metro C Line to Hawthorne/Lennox station with a shuttle, or rideshare drop-off on Prairie Ave. Pokemon Center merchandise will be available at the venue. Plan for long lines at merch and entry. This is a standing floor plus reserved seating format — floor is the experience, reserved is the view. Pokemon Night Out lands on Falkor Nation's Best list because it is the kind of event that exists once. The Pokemon IP has been through thirty years of games, anime, cards, and cultural saturation — and none of it looked like this. An arena EDM show built as a canonical Pokemon celebration is a specific thing that will not be repeated in this form. Even people who are not attending will remember that it happened, and that it was possible. That is the bar for this list. Tickets available on Ticketmaster. October 24, 2026 at Intuit Dome, Inglewood CA.

El Trafico: LAFC vs LA Galaxy at BMO Stadium

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El Trafico: LAFC vs LA Galaxy at BMO Stadium

Oct 25, 2026 3939 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

October 25 at BMO Stadium is El Trafico — LAFC against the LA Galaxy in the Los Angeles derby that has become the signature fixture of MLS's modern era. No rivalry in American professional soccer is more examined, more contested, or more genuinely hostile than this one. LAFC play in the north of the city in a stadium that was built explicitly to intimidate visiting clubs. The Galaxy bring thirty years of history, five MLS Cups, and a supporter base that refuses to concede Los Angeles to anyone. El Trafico at BMO has produced some of the most technically accomplished MLS football of the past six years — two genuine title contenders, playing at the highest level, in front of a crowd that provides something the players describe as incomparable. The 3252 versus a packed Galaxy away section. The scoreboard more consequential than usual because both clubs are still playing for playoff position. October in Los Angeles is when the real season begins. El Trafico on October 25 is where it announces itself.

WWE Monday Night Raw – Honda Center, Anaheim (October 2026)

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WWE Monday Night Raw – Honda Center, Anaheim (October 2026)

Oct 27, 2026 Honda Center, Anaheim, CA

WWE Monday Night Raw returns to the Honda Center in Anaheim on October 27, 2026 — one of the most anticipated SoCal wrestling stops of the fall. The Honda Center has hosted WWE programming multiple times and the Orange County wrestling fanbase consistently delivers one of the loudest, most engaged crowds on the road. Monday Night Raw is the flagship WWE show: title matches, major faction developments, and career-defining moments happen on Raw first. The October date falls in the critical fall run-up to major year-end premium live events, which means the card is likely to feature high-stakes matches with championship implications across multiple titles. Superstars recently featured on Raw have included CM Punk, Rhea Ripley, Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, Bron Breakker, Jey Uso, The New Day, and The Judgment Day. Honda Center sits adjacent to Angel Stadium with ample parking in surrounding lots and connects to the Anaheim Resort Transit network. Tickets available via Ticketmaster.

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Lucha VaVoom — Halloween 2026

Oct 29 – Oct 30, 2026 The Mayan, 1038 S Hill St, Los Ang…

Lucha VaVoom's annual Halloween show at The Mayan in downtown Los Angeles is the second crown jewel of their calendar — a night when the already-theatrical world of lucha libre wrestling meets a costumed audience in a Halloween setting that brings out the most elaborate masked performers and the most creative crowd of the year. The Halloween show is Lucha VaVoom in its most maximalist form. The luchadores wear themed Halloween masks and costumes over their regular gear. The burlesque performers deploy their most elaborate production numbers of the year. MC Eduardo Leal presides over controlled chaos. The crowd — which skews toward costume competition at Halloween — arrives in everything from elaborate Day of the Dead makeup to superhero costumes to luchador masks bought specifically for the night. The collision of Halloween costuming, Mexican wrestling tradition, Los Angeles counterculture, and a 1,000-person art deco nightclub operating at full capacity produces something that doesn't have a name or a comparable precedent. It is either the strangest evening of your year or the best. The Mayan is at 1038 S Hill St in downtown Los Angeles, accessible from the I-110 or rideshare/Metro. 21+ event. The Halloween show consistently sells out weeks in advance — Lucha VaVoom's email list is the fastest way to get on-sale notification. The show runs approximately 2.5-3 hours including all wrestling matches and burlesque sets.

Spooky Empire October 2026 -- Orlando, FL

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Spooky Empire October 2026 -- Orlando, FL

Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2026 Hyatt Regency Orlando, 9801 Intern…

What you expect from a horror convention and what Spooky Empire actually is are not the same thing. Since 2003, it has drawn fans from all fifty states to Orlando each October for a weekend of access that does not exist anywhere else in the genre. The experience is nothing like what "horror convention" might suggest to someone who has not been. Celebrity meet-and-greets with icons from Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Walking Dead, and hundreds of cult films form the spine of the weekend. Surrounding those signings is a full floor of horror makeup artists, independent filmmakers, prop replica craftspeople, authors, and a community of people who found each other through shared fear. The costume quality at Spooky Empire is exceptional -- this is not casual Halloween dress-up, it is craft. The crowd is simultaneously the most enthusiastic and most considerate fan base in genre events. Worth it? For horror fans, unambiguously yes. Spooky Empire is not an entry point -- it is a homecoming for people who already know what they love and want to be in a room where everyone understands it. If your idea of a perfect weekend involves meeting the actors from films you have watched twenty times, surrounded by people who take the genre seriously, this is worth the plane ticket. If you are casual about horror, the October edition may feel overwhelming in its specificity. That specificity is the point. What to know before you go: the October edition is the flagship -- substantially larger than the May edition, with a bigger celebrity roster and more programming. Celebrity photo ops and autograph sessions sell separately and typically sell out within days of guest announcements -- plan your must-haves list before general registration opens. Comfortable shoes are required for the Orange County Convention Center layout. Hotels in the convention corridor book fast for horror weekend. Wear comfortable clothes; Orlando in October is warm. Plan your schedule before you arrive -- trying to improvise a Spooky Empire weekend is how you miss the three people you came to see. Spooky Empire earns its place on Falkor's Nation's Best list because horror fandom is one of the most passionate and loyal communities in American entertainment -- and Spooky Empire is the room where it concentrates annually. Every October edition becomes evidence that horror is not niche but a massive cultural constituency that shows up for its artists and builds genuine community around shared fear. This is the room that proves it.

ANIME WRESTLE-VERSE: The Ultimate Cosplay Entrance Experience

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ANIME WRESTLE-VERSE: The Ultimate Cosplay Entrance Experience

Oct 31, 2026 30 8548 Lankershim Blvd, Los Angeles,…

KnokX Pro Wrestling looked at two rooms -- anime cosplay contests and wrestling entrance theater -- and decided they belonged together. ANIME WRESTLE-VERSE is what happened when a real wrestling promotion asked: what if the cosplay walk-out was the competition? On Halloween night in North Hollywood, 275 people will watch competitors enter the ring in full anime cosplay -- theme music, character energy, crowd reaction -- competing for the Anime Wrestle-Verse Championship Belt and a 750 dollar prize pool. This is not a costume contest judged on accuracy. It is judged on the entrance. On presence. On the room reaction when you walk through that curtain. Between heats: KnokX Pro wrestling matches, a live K-pop and anime DJ, a vendor floor, food, and photo ops. The full card. This is for the person who watched wrestling and thought about doing it in cosplay. Or the cosplayer who was waiting for a stage where the walk-in matters as much as the fit. October 31, 2026. Doors 7 PM. North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Tickets: 30 dollars GA. Capacity: 275. Ages 18+.

LA Galaxy vs Austin FC at Dignity Health Sports Park

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LA Galaxy vs Austin FC at Dignity Health Sports Park

Oct 31, 2026 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746

October 31 brings the LA Galaxy home to Dignity Health Sports Park for the final stretch of the regular season against Austin FC — a club that has grown into one of the Western Conference's most complete teams since joining MLS. By Halloween weekend, the playoff picture is effectively locked and the final positions are being fought for with the intensity of teams who know a single place in the bracket means the difference between a home game and a road trip in the postseason. Galaxy vs Austin at Carson on October 31 carries the energy of a season that is minutes from its conclusion — every chance, every counter, every set piece watched with the scrutiny of fans who have done this long enough to know that late-season home matches define what comes next. The Galaxy's home record over the years is a point of pride. Finishing the regular season with a win at Dignity Health Sports Park is how you enter the playoffs with momentum. The LA Galaxy supporter community — the Angel City Brigade, the Riot Squad — will be fully activated for a late-season match where the playoff picture is effectively locked and every point determines seeding. The south end at Dignity Health Sports Park is one of the louder environments in MLS for a club of the Galaxy's size. Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson. Parking on-site and surrounding lots.

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LAFC vs Minnesota United at BMO Stadium

Oct 31, 2026 3939 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

BMO Stadium closes its 2026 regular season on October 31 when LAFC host Minnesota United — the final home match of the year before the postseason begins. Minnesota have built one of the league's more interesting identities: organized at the back, creative through the midfield, and capable of results against any team in the conference on any given night. For LAFC, this is the last chance to finish the regular season with the home-record statement that has defined their years at BMO. The 3252 treat closing day as a celebration of what the home season has produced — the match matters for seeding, but the atmosphere treats it as both finale and prologue. Whatever has come before October 31 at BMO, this is the moment the regular season is handed over to memory and the playoffs take over. LAFC enters them having played the last home match of the year in front of the supporter group that helped build the club into what it is.

TCS New York City Marathon 2026 -- New York, NY

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TCS New York City Marathon 2026 -- New York, NY

Nov 1, 2026 Free to spectate Central Park, New York, NY 10024

Twenty-six miles through all five boroughs of New York City. The NYC Marathon is the world's largest — 55,000 runners, a million spectators, and the most complete tour of the city's actual geography that exists. Marathon Sunday in New York City is unlike anything else in American sports culture. The city does not just host the race -- it becomes the race. From the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge opening stretch to the final uphill push through Central Park, each borough cheers with its own distinct energy. Fort Hamilton Heights in Brooklyn, the sound tunnel of the Queensboro Bridge, First Avenue in Manhattan lined five deep, the Bronx crowd, and finally Central Park where the last mile is a wall of noise. 1.7 million spectators attend each year. This is not a race you watch from seats -- you stake a corner of a New York sidewalk and become part of the city for one morning. If you run at all -- or ever wanted to -- the NYC Marathon is the race that rewrites what you believe is possible. The spectator experience is completely free along the entire course. For those who want to run: entry is through NYRR's lottery system (the application window opens in January). Charity bibs are available year-round through hundreds of partner organizations. The 2026 edition is the 50th running of the current course -- a milestone that will draw the world's fastest elite athletes alongside tens of thousands of first-timers. Do not attempt to navigate New York City by car on Marathon Sunday -- road closures make the city nearly impassable. Take the subway to any borough mid-course. Best spectator spots: Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue corridor around mile 8, First Avenue in Manhattan around mile 16 (lines five deep, incredible energy), and the finish line area at Central Park's Tavern on the Green. Download the NYC Marathon app to track a specific runner. Bring a sign -- the course is long and personalized cheering genuinely moves people. The NYC Marathon earns its place on Falkor's Nation's Best list as the rare sporting event that does not require you to be a fan of the sport to feel something. A race that draws the world's fastest marathon runners to the same course as a 72-year-old retiree completing their bucket list is a genuinely democratic cultural event. In the 50th year of the modern course, this is a milestone worth knowing about. Race information and charity bibs at nyrr.org. November 1, 2026. Start: Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. Finish: Central Park, Manhattan.

Angel City FC Home Match — November 1 at BMO Stadium

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Angel City FC Home Match — November 1 at BMO Stadium

Nov 1, 2026 3939 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

November 1 at BMO Stadium is Angel City FC's final regular-season match of 2026 — the close of a home calendar that has run from April through November in the most comprehensive women's professional soccer season Los Angeles has produced. If the playoff picture requires these three points, the BMO crowd on November 1 will know it and provide accordingly. If the position is already secured, the match becomes the regular season's send-off: a celebration of what this club and this stadium have produced across eight months of NWSL football. Either way, the crowd that shows up on a Sunday in early November at BMO is the most loyal and invested portion of the Angel City FC supporter base — the people who have been here all year.

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2026 (SDAFF)

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San Diego Asian Film Festival 2026 (SDAFF)

Nov 5 – Nov 14, 2026 Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15, 701 5t…

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2026 (SDAFF) is one of North America's premier Asian and Asian American film festivals, presenting over 100 films across ten days from November 5–14 in San Diego. Since 1999, SDAFF has been the destination for Asian cinema that has not found a theatrical home yet — and the first place American audiences discover films that later appear in awards season conversations. Ten days of screenings split across multiple San Diego venues, ranging from world premieres to retrospectives of Asian cinema classics. The festival programs narrative features, documentaries, shorts, and animated films, with particular depth in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and South Asian cinema. Q&As with filmmakers are frequent — it is common to sit in a 200-person screening and find the director in the seat next to you for the post-film discussion. The atmosphere is simultaneously cinephile-serious and community-celebratory: people come because they love film, and because they find something here that mainstream distribution does not give them. If you care about Asian cinema — not just what makes it into wide US release, but the full range of what is being made across a dozen countries and cultures — SDAFF is the most direct path to that world. Many films screened here will not be available anywhere else in the US until months later, if ever. For Asian Americans, it is one of the few film events where seeing yourself, your family, and your cultural reality onscreen is the rule rather than the exception. This is not background noise. It is foreground. Festival passes offer the best value if you plan to see more than three films — single tickets sell out quickly for high-demand titles. Book screenings in advance; popular films at the main venue fill within hours of programming announcement. The Opening Night Gala is a social event as much as a screening. The Programmers Picks section is where to start if you are overwhelmed by choice — those films were specifically flagged as the staff's strongest recommendations. SDAFF runs at a moment when Asian and Asian American storytelling has moved from niche to center. Everything Everywhere All at Once, Past Lives, Minari, and the global dominance of Korean film and television have created an audience hungry for more. SDAFF has been feeding that hunger for 27 years. The mainstream finally caught up.

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MTG Friday Night Magic — TCS Rockets

Nov 6, 2026 $15-20 7626 Miramar Rd Suite 3900, San Di…

Friday Night Magic at TCS Rockets — where San Diego's Magic: The Gathering community shows up every week to draft, grind Standard, or battle Commander pods. The shop is welcoming, the competition is real, and the trading post after rounds is where half the collection upgrades happen. Doors at 6, packs crack at 6:30.

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GCW Homecoming 2026 — Los Angeles

Nov 7, 2026 Los Angeles, CA

Game Changer Wrestling's Homecoming event in Los Angeles is one of the year's most anticipated independent wrestling shows — GCW's annual homecoming to the market where the promotion's style resonates most loudly, drawing the underground wrestling faithful to an intimate venue for a card that consistently delivers Match of the Year candidates. GCW's Los Angeles shows have cemented the promotion's relationship with the city's most dedicated wrestling audience. Homecoming is positioned as a statement show — the booking brings back fan favorites, features grudge matches built across the year, and typically includes surprise guests from the international independent circuit that GCW's reputation attracts. The show format is general admission at intimate venues (Globe Theatre, Ukrainian Culture Center, Echoplex) where capacity is 500-1,000 — giving every attendee a sight line that WWE arenas and even AEW's mid-size venues can't match. The floor energy at GCW LA shows is the reference point for what live wrestling atmosphere feels like when it hasn't been mediated by corporate production. GCW Homecoming tickets announced through GCW's website and ticketing partners (usually Eventbrite or ticketweb). Shows sell out within days or hours of announcement. The venue and exact date for the 2026 Homecoming will be confirmed on GCW's official channels. 18+ at some shows — check the specific listing.

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