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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…

You sit down in a 200-person theater for a film you could not have seen anywhere else in the country, and the director is in the seat next to you, waiting to talk about it when the credits roll. That is not a rare accident at this festival — it is the rule. For anyone who cares about Asian cinema, this is the most direct path into the full range of what is being made across a dozen countries and cultures, not just the handful of films that reach wide US release. The San Diego Asian Film Festival is one of North America's most significant Asian and Asian American film festivals, presenting over 100 films across ten days from November 5–14. Since 1999 it has been the destination for Asian cinema that has not yet found a theatrical home — often the first place American audiences discover films that later surface in awards-season conversation. Ten days of screenings run across multiple San Diego venues, from world premieres to retrospectives of Asian cinema classics, with real depth in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and South Asian film, plus narrative features, documentaries, shorts, and animation. Filmmaker Q&As are frequent, and the atmosphere is simultaneously cinephile-serious and community-celebratory. 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. Many films here will not be available anywhere else in the US until months later, if ever. Festival passes offer the best value if you plan to see more than three films — single tickets sell out quickly for high-demand titles, and popular films at the main venue fill within hours of the programming announcement. The Opening Night Gala is a social event as much as a screening, and the Programmers Picks section is where to start if you are overwhelmed by choice. 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. The festival has been feeding that hunger for 27 years. The mainstream finally caught up.

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San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival 2026

Nov 6 – Nov 10, 2026 Embarcadero, Harbor Dr, San Diego,…

The difference between a tasting and a good tasting is whether the person pouring actually made the thing. Here they did, and by the third table you stop reading the little signs and start asking questions. Five days in November turn the downtown waterfront into the annual meeting point for everyone in this city who takes food and wine seriously. The Grand Tasting is the headline — hundreds of wineries, breweries, spirits producers and kitchens spread along the Embarcadero across a weekend, open to anyone holding a badge. The signature dinners are the quieter, better secret: seated, small, one chef paired with one producer, close enough that you end up in a real conversation with both of them. On Harbor Drive, walkable from the Gaslamp, trolley at the waterfront stop. It is not a budget weekend. Bring the friend who photographs every plate before anyone is allowed to eat. This is their Super Bowl.

Del Mar Fall Racing Season 2026 — Opening Day

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Del Mar Fall Racing Season 2026 — Opening Day

Every Friday · Next Nov 6 Del Mar Racetrack, 2260 Jimmy Dura…

Hooves on turf against the Pacific. That sound only exists at Del Mar in November — hooves on turf against the Pacific, the murmur of a crowd that dresses up because the occasion demands it, the starter's bell that makes two thousand strangers hold their breath at the same time. The fall meet is smaller than the summer circus. That is the entire point. Del Mar Thoroughbred Club opens its 2026 fall season on November 6 with a four-weekend run through the 29th, racing Fridays through Sundays. Post time is 12:30 PM. The fall card features a pair of Grade I offerings — the Hollywood Turf Cup and the Seabiscuit Handicap — and the intimate atmosphere that summer visitors never quite find. The grandstand regulars know each other by name. The $2 exacta window regulars know each other by superstition. The fall meet is also where the smart bettors work. Smaller fields mean more readable races. The turf course plays different in November light. If you have ever wanted to learn how to read a past performance sheet, this is the place to do it — not in a simulcast room, but beside the rail where you can feel the ground shake. Del Mar Racetrack, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd, Del Mar, CA 92014. Fridays through Sundays, November 6 through November 29. General admission at the gate.

The Story So Far with The Starting Line & Ultra Q — SOMA, San Diego

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The Story So Far with The Starting Line & Ultra Q — SOMA, San Diego

Nov 6, 2026 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

If you grew up in California between 2012 and 2016, there's a good chance The Story So Far was the soundtrack to the drive that changed something. Pop-punk with the self-awareness to know it's pop-punk and the conviction to play it like it matters anyway — the Walnut Creek band that turned suburban restlessness into something a generation moshed to in venues exactly like this one. SOMA's Mainstage is the right room for this. Big enough to hold the energy, small enough that the pit reaches the stage. The Starting Line opens with the kind of elder-emo gravitas that makes the crowd remember there was pop-punk before there was The Story So Far, and Ultra Q fills the gap between nostalgia and whatever comes next. Then TSSF walks on and the room forgets it has a ceiling. This is an all-ages, general admission, standing show. If you know, you know. If you don't, ask the person next to you — they've been waiting for this since the tour was announced. Friday, November 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. All ages, general admission.

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WSA Oceanside Jetty Surf Contest 2026

Every day · Next Nov 7 Oceanside Jetty, 100 N The Strand,…

The Western Surfing Association brings its amateur circuit to the Oceanside Jetty on November 7-8, and this is not the WSL tour with cameras and sponsors. This is the grassroots competition where the local surf community shows up with board wax on their steering wheels and sand in their car seats, and the judging is close enough that you can hear the scores called from the beach. The WSA circuit is where SoCal surfers cut their competitive teeth -- the pathway from dawn patrol regular to ranked amateur. Oceanside Jetty offers consistent breaks and the kind of spectator access that makes surf contests feel like neighborhood events rather than broadcast productions. Free to watch from the beach. Oceanside Jetty, Oceanside, CA 92054. Free spectator event.

San Diego FC vs Sporting Kansas City at Snapdragon Stadium

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San Diego FC vs Sporting Kansas City at Snapdragon Stadium

Nov 7, 2026 9449 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108

The goodbye comes before the real thing starts. That is the strange shape of a final regular-season home match: the crowd is already halfway into the postseason and still wants one more night in this building first. San Diego committed to this club from the very first match, in numbers nobody outside the city predicted, and a full season of home and away has been building toward exactly this stretch. Kansas City arrives with its own history and its own arithmetic. But the story in the stands belongs to the home end, a second season closing, a bracket about to open, and the particular charge that comes when finality and anticipation land on the same evening. Snapdragon Stadium in Mission Valley, the first weekend of November. If you have been meaning to go all year, this is the one. There is no next one until spring.

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Dia de los Deftones 2026 — Petco Park

Nov 7, 2026 Petco Park, 100 Park Blvd, San Die…

Sacramento made them and the Inland Empire shaped them, but San Diego is where they throw the party — thirty thousand people standing in a baseball stadium screaming lyrics that were written for a bedroom with the lights off. The lineup reads like a playlist you would build to explain yourself to somebody who almost understands: AFI for the theatrics, Converge for the violence, The Neighbourhood for the midnight drive, Jehnny Beth for the art-school intensity, and Ladrones, Lip Critic, Lustsickpuppy and BKTHERULA filling the spaces between with things that refuse to sit in one genre. It is not really a concert. It is a day-long identity confirmation disguised as a festival, held where people normally eat garlic fries and argue about the infield fly rule, and the collision of venue and mood is the entire point. If you know, you know. If you do not, the person beside you will be loud enough to teach you.

LA Chargers vs. Houston Texans — SoFi Stadium

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LA Chargers vs. Houston Texans — SoFi Stadium

Nov 8, 2026 SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Ing…

The Chargers come home to SoFi for a November showdown with the Houston Texans, a franchise that has become one of the most watchable teams in the AFC. C.J. Stroud brought the Texans back to relevance and the national conversation; this is the kind of matchup where both fanbases show up knowing their team has a real shot at January football. November at SoFi hits different. The summer heat is gone. The late-afternoon light slants through the oculus and catches the field at that angle that makes you understand why they built this place with an open roof. The crowd leans in harder in November — every game matters more, every third-down conversion sounds louder, every incompletion carries weight. The Chargers' home crowd has found its voice in Inglewood, and a 1:05 PM Sunday kickoff means the tailgate starts at sunrise along the parking lots and the food trucks that line Prairie Avenue. This is the stretch of the season where you learn what a team is made of. The Chargers and Texans are both building something real, and this game is where those ambitions collide. Kickoff is 1:05 PM on CBS. SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Inglewood, CA 90301. Grab seats on Ticketmaster before November gets loud.

DOC NYC 2026 — America's Largest Documentary Film Festival — New York, NY

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DOC NYC 2026 — America's Largest Documentary Film Festival — New York, NY

Nov 11, 2026 IFC Center, 323 6th Ave, New York,…

Every November, Manhattan becomes the center of nonfiction storytelling. DOC NYC — America's largest documentary film festival — returns to the IFC Center and partner venues for its seventeenth year, screening more than two hundred films that range from intimate personal portraits to sweeping investigations of the systems that shape how we live. World premieres sit alongside retrospectives. First-time filmmakers screen in the same program as Oscar veterans. The Q&As after the screenings are not polite formalities — they are the room processing what it just saw, together, with the person who made it standing right there. True crime, climate, sports, music, politics, family — the range is the point. If you care about the world and you want to see it through eyes that are not your own, this is the room. The festival has steadily grown into the definitive showcase for nonfiction storytelling in the United States. It is where the films that will be nominated for Academy Awards in February get their first public screenings in November. The in-person component runs for ten days across Manhattan, with an additional ten days of online access for anyone in the country who wants to participate from home. A single all-access pass opens every screening — no hierarchy, no red carpet separating audiences from filmmakers. What makes DOC NYC different from other film festivals is scale married to intimacy. Two hundred films across ten days means you could see three or four a day and still miss most of the program. But the venues are small enough that you will share an elevator with the director whose film just wrecked you, and the conversations that happen in the lobby between screenings are half the experience. The online extension means geography is not a barrier — someone in San Diego can watch the same film as someone who just walked out of the IFC Center, and both reactions count. November 11-19, 2026 (in-person) and November 11-29 (online). IFC Center and partner venues, Manhattan, New York City. Tickets and passes at docnyc.net.

San Diego Gulls vs. San Jose Barracuda — Military Appreciation Night

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San Diego Gulls vs. San Jose Barracuda — Military Appreciation Night

Nov 11, 2026 Pechanga Arena San Diego, 3500 Spo…

Wednesday night at Pechanga Arena, the San Diego Gulls host the San Jose Barracuda for Military Appreciation Night — one of the most emotionally charged games on the AHL calendar in a city that carries military identity deeper than almost anywhere in the country. Veterans Day itself, the arena fills with active-duty members, veterans, and their families for an evening that bridges professional hockey and community belonging in a way no other sport in San Diego quite matches. The Gulls organization goes all in: ceremonial puck drops with local service members, on-ice tributes between periods, specialty military-themed jerseys, and a crowd that stands longer for the anthem than anywhere else you will hear it this year. Beyond the ceremony, the hockey is fast, physical, and genuinely affordable — AHL games deliver the speed and checks of professional hockey at a fraction of the NHL price, and Pechanga Arena keeps the atmosphere intimate enough that you hear every hit into the boards from any seat in the building. This is not a polite nod to the military; this is San Diego being San Diego. Faceoff is 7:00 PM.

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Anaheim Ducks vs. Nashville Predators

Nov 11, 2026 ✨ New Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Ave, …

Mid-November is when the novelty of a new season wears off and a weeknight game stops being an occasion and becomes a habit. That is the better version of being a fan, and it is almost impossible to explain to someone who has only been to a playoff game. Nashville is the opponent, and Predators supporters bring the loudest visiting tradition in the league with them — the catcalls, the chants aimed at the opposing goaltender, the whole apparatus imported from Broadway. A few hundred of them in a half-full Orange County building is more than enough to be heard, and the home crowd tends to rise to it rather than sulk. Wednesday nights also mean the concourse lines move and you can actually get a seat at the bar behind section 220. The Predators also play a heavy, grinding style that makes for an honest hockey game rather than a highlight reel, and honest is underrated in November. Faceoff is at seven on the eleventh, off Katella in Anaheim.

NHRA In-N-Out Burger Finals 2026 – Pomona

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NHRA In-N-Out Burger Finals 2026 – Pomona

Nov 12 – Nov 15, 2026 Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Pomon…

Nothing prepares you for what a Top Fuel car does to your body. You feel it in your sternum, in your teeth, in the loose change in your pocket. Ten thousand horsepower covers a quarter mile in under four seconds, and the sound arrives as physical pressure — people flinch, then laugh, then go quiet. This is the weekend that decides the season. Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle titles separated by fractions of a second, three days of qualifying and eliminations feeding a Sunday where every single run counts. Pomona has been hosting this since 1961. The grandstands run the length of the quarter mile, and the pit pass gets you close enough to watch a crew tear an engine down and rebuild it between rounds. Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, off the 10 and the 60. Come early on the final Sunday for the pre-race ceremonies. Take the friend who has never felt a nitro engine from up close. Watch their face instead of the track.

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28th LA Indie Film Festival 2026

Every day · Next Nov 12 Let Live Theater, 916 N Formosa Av…

The 28th LA Indie Film Festival runs November 12-15 at Let Live Theater, and it exists because independent cinema needs rooms where the audience comes to find something they did not know they were looking for. Four days of features, shorts, documentaries, and first films by directors whose names you have never heard -- and at least one of those names will matter in five years. The festival sits at the intersection of scrappy ambition and genuine craft. Filmmaker Q-and-As follow most screenings, and the crowd splits between industry people scouting and civilians who just wanted to see something that was not made by a committee. There is no red carpet. The popcorn is real. The films are the kind you tell one specific friend about afterward. Let Live Theater, 916 N Formosa Avenue in the Fairfax district.

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Nick Shoulders

Nov 12, 2026 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

Country music got sold a story about who it belongs to, and one of the more effective arguments against that story is a yodeling Arkansan with a whistle and a deep interest in where the music actually came from — Black string bands, Mexican influence, the Ozark hollers his family is from. He makes the case cheerfully rather than academically, mostly by being an extraordinary singer with a voice that does things most people cannot. The live show is funnier than the records and the between-song history lessons are short, sharp, and pointed. His audience skews young, which surprises people who assume the genre only travels backward. High desert saloon, Thursday, early door at 7:00 PM in Pioneertown. Anybody trying to work out what modern country is actually doing right now would learn more in this room than from a year of charts.

MTG Star Trek Prerelease — GameStar Hobbies

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MTG Star Trek Prerelease — GameStar Hobbies

Nov 13, 2026 27380 Jefferson Ave Ste 101, Temec…

The overlap between these two fandoms has always run deeper than either side admits, and prerelease day is when it stops being an announcement and becomes a game you are actually playing. The format is the great equalizer: six packs, forty-five minutes to build, then you sit across from people who opened exactly the same uncertainty you did. Nobody has a netdeck. Nobody has a read on the meta, because there is no meta yet. Knowing your Star Trek helps more than it usually would — the card design leans on the reference points — but the play decisions still decide the game, and holding both at once is the whole pleasure of the day. GameStar Hobbies runs prereleases with real infrastructure, and Temecula pulls players in from the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Riverside alike. Send it to the friend who owns both a commander deck and a strongly held opinion about Deep Space Nine. They will clear their calendar.

SeaWorld Christmas Celebration 2026 — San Diego

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SeaWorld Christmas Celebration 2026 — San Diego

Nov 13, 2026 SeaWorld San Diego, 500 SeaWorld D…

The sea lion in antlers is not what converts you. Neither is the manufactured snowfall over a park that has never seen a real flake. What does it is the moment somewhere near the waterfront when a live choir starts a song your grandmother used to hum, and the million lights on every surface stop being decorations and start being December, and you are small again in the best possible way. SeaWorld's Christmas Celebration runs daily from November 13 through January 3, making it one of the longest holiday events in San Diego and the only one where Christmas lights reflect off actual ocean. The nightly laser show fires every evening without exception. Santa and his real reindeer handle photos with the patience of professionals. Clyde and Seamore's Christmas Special at Sea Lion Stadium is exactly as silly and exactly as effective as a show performed by trained sea mammals deserves to be. The unlock that veterans know: weeknight visits in mid-November and early December are uncrowded enough to feel private. The lights are identical, the shows run on schedule, and the hot chocolate line is measured in seconds instead of minutes. If you have never visited SeaWorld after dark during the holidays, this is the version that makes believers. Daily November 13, 2026 through January 3, 2027. 500 SeaWorld Drive, 92109. The holidays start when SeaWorld says they start.

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MagicCon: Atlanta 2026 — Atlanta, GA

Nov 13 – Nov 15, 2026 Georgia World Congress Center, Bui…

Wizards of the Coast brings the official Magic: The Gathering convention to Atlanta — three days of competitive play, exclusive reveals, and side events that don't exist at a local game store. Step into MagicCon and the scale of the Magic ecosystem becomes visceral. The main hall hosts commander pods running nonstop, side event drafts firing every 90 minutes, and a merchandise floor stocked with exclusive foil treatments and collector editions that do not exist outside the convention walls. The World Championship stage draws a live audience who understands the stakes — watching a pro player navigate a complex board state in a top-8 match is legitimately thrilling even to non-competitive attendees. Panel stages feature lead designers previewing the upcoming set, Reality Fracture, with reveals that ripple across the entire community within minutes of announcement. Meet-and-greets with pro players and content creators run throughout the weekend, though they fill fast. The atmosphere skews intensely knowledgeable — this crowd knows what a Rhystic Study is, why it is obnoxious, and will argue about it with warmth. MagicCon Atlanta is for anyone who plays Magic with genuine investment — not necessarily competitive, but committed. If your Friday nights involve a Commander pod and you have at least one deck you have been tuning for six months, you will feel completely at home here. This is not a casual spectator event. It is for the player who loves the game enough to fly across the country for three days of it. First-timers to MagicCon frequently say the same thing: they had no idea how large and how skilled the community actually is until they walked in. Register for ticketed play events before the convention — sealed and draft pods sell out weeks in advance. Bring your trade binder if you have one: the secondary market area moves fast and has genuine deals. Badge merchandise must be picked up onsite; if you miss the pickup window before close on Sunday, you forfeit it. The Worlds stage is open to badge holders but seating near the feature match area is first-come, standing room fills by round 4 of the top 8. Bring cash for artist alley — many illustrators are cash-only and the original card alters available from top artists are some of the most collectible items in the room. For the Magic community, this is not just an event. It is the proof that the game is still alive, still evolving, and still worth every dollar you have spent on it. MagicCon: Atlanta 2026 runs November 13-15 at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. Tickets at mtgfestivals.com.

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UCLA Bruins vs Illinois Fighting Illini

Nov 13 – Nov 14, 2026 $30+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Illinois plays its November home games in gray sleet, in a stadium where the wind comes off flat farmland with nothing to slow it down for miles. Then the conference redrew the map, and now they fly west and walk out into a mid-autumn afternoon in the arroyo with the palms moving and the mountains cut sharp against the sky. That culture collision is genuinely the fun of this era, and it only really lands in person. The Bruins get a heavyweight conference test out of it. Everyone in the stands gets another postcard Saturday, plus a proud old program most West Coast fans have never once seen up close. Get to the golf course tailgate early. It is the good one, and it fills. Sit in the California light the visitors from Champaign are quietly envious of, and bring the friend from the Midwest who claims to miss real weather. Watch them fail to sell it to anybody.

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