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Rose Bowl Flea Market — Pasadena

Every 2nd Sunday · Next Nov 8 From $15 Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl …

Nobody leaves with the thing they came for. You go looking for a lamp and come home with deadstock denim, a stack of vinyl, and an object that has no category but is clearly yours. That is what twenty-five hundred vendors on a stadium lot do to a person. Stylists, collectors and vintage hunters have been circling the second Sunday of the month since 1967, and the mix reads like everything Los Angeles has ever absorbed — Japanese streetwear beside 1970s Americana, mid-century furniture next to handmade jewelry, band tees, housewares, art prints. The quality ceiling runs higher than most dedicated vintage markets, because at that vendor count the best of it rises to the top. Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, second Sunday of every month, general admission from 9am and early birds in at 7:30 for first pass. Go with the person who will hold your spot while you double back for the thing you talked yourself out of.

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Temecula Valley Vintage Market

Monthly · Next Nov 23 Old Town Temecula, 28690 Front St,…

Old Town Temecula hosts its monthly vintage and makers market along Front Street -- local dealers bringing curated vintage clothing, jewelry, ceramics, plants, and handmade goods to the brick-lined blocks that are already one of the better walking streets in Inland Southern California. The May 23, 2026 edition opens at 9:00 AM and runs through the afternoon. The wine country crowd mixes with the vintage hunters; the combination makes for a morning that reliably turns into an afternoon. Front Street in Old Town Temecula is a genuine discovery walk even before the market sets up -- historic storefronts, wine tasting rooms, and local restaurants make it easy to turn a market visit into a full day. Admission is free to browse. Bring cash for the dealers who do not run Square -- vintage markets at this scale typically have a mix of card and cash-only vendors. The market is located at 28690 Front Street, Temecula, CA 92590. Parking is available along Front Street and in surrounding lots. Old Town is also walkable from several downtown Temecula hotels.

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Vintage Market at Hollywood Park

Monthly · Next Nov 6 Hollywood Park Lot A, 3900 W Centu…

Half the fun is the arithmetic you run standing over a milk crate — is this a dealer who knows exactly what they have, or somebody clearing out a garage who has no idea. In a lot this size you get both, in the same aisle, on the same morning. Hundreds of vendors spread across the asphalt in the shadow of the stadium: vinyl, mid-century furniture, Levi's with the right stitching, sports memorabilia, film props, and objects that resist classification entirely. You can cover every row and still walk out certain you missed half of it. The early crowd is serious about this — the resellers and the collectors are through the gate before the rest of the city has finished its coffee. Monthly Saturdays in Lot A off Century Boulevard in Inglewood, small cash admission at the gate, and the K Line runs close enough to walk. Go early, and take the friend who cannot pass a record bin without stopping.

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Melrose Trading Post — Sunday Market

Every Sunday · Next Oct 25 Free Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose …

You can tell the regulars from the tourists in about four seconds. The regulars walk straight past the first two rows, because they already know which dealer got a delivery this week and they did not come to browse. That is what a market holding the same high school parking lot since 1995 builds. Sellers come back every week. Buyers come back every week. All that repetition turns a swap meet into a neighborhood ritual. Quality is honestly uneven — the hunt is the point — but the crowd is constant: creative, unhurried, unmistakably Los Angeles. Vintage denim, records, furniture somebody refinished by hand, art from people who will happily talk to you about it. Sundays, year-round, in the Fairfax High lot on Melrose, with a small admission at the gate that goes back to the school's programs. Bring the friend who claims they never find anything at these. Then watch how long it takes to get them to leave.

Godzilla Invades Little Tokyo 2026: Terror of Mechagodzilla with Tomoko Ai

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Godzilla Invades Little Tokyo 2026: Terror of Mechagodzilla with Tomoko Ai

In 8 days · Nov 1 $25 JANM Tateuchi Democracy Forum, 100…

The woman who played Katsura Mafune in 1975 is going to be sitting in a room on Central Avenue answering questions about it. If you know why that sentence matters, you already know whether you are going. Terror of Mechagodzilla was the last Godzilla film of the Showa era and the only one Ishiro Honda came back to direct at the end, which gives it a melancholy the rubber-suit reputation never accounts for. Tomoko Ai appears in person for a talk and Q&A afterward, then signs at the pop-up shop around the corner. Every ticket includes a B2 commemorative poster. The reason to come is less the film than the room: Little Tokyo's tokusatsu community is multigenerational, and the questions asked at these things are not about trivia. They are from people whose parents took them to these movies. JANM, 100 North Central Avenue. Doors noon, $25.

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DesignerCon 2026 — Las Vegas

Nov 13 – Nov 15, 2026 Paid - $25-$45 Las Vegas, NV

Somewhere in a long box in your closet is a resin figure you bought at a show like this — a limited colorway, poured in a batch of fifty, that you will never find again because the artist made it once and moved on. You still remember what you paid. You have never once regretted it. That particular hunt, the one that has nothing to do with investment and everything to do with recognition, is the whole reason this room exists. DesignerCon has been the center of the designer toy world since 2004, and its Las Vegas edition takes over The Expo at World Market Center this November. The floor is art toys, designer vinyl, limited-run resin, plush, custom sneakers, streetwear and original pop art — sold artist-direct, in small batches, with no mass-market retail anywhere in the building. What separates it from a comic convention is who is standing behind the table. The person taking your money sculpted the thing you are holding. Booths are stacked with one-off customs and exclusive drops that exist in runs of twenty or thirty, and the floor has a particular rhythm: a slow early crawl while collectors map the aisles, a hard sprint when a drop goes live, then long stretches of artists simply talking to the people who own their work. Live painting happens in the open. Trades happen in the aisles. Nobody asks what anything is worth, because everyone already knows. If you can name the sculptor of a figure on your shelf, this is worth the flight and the hotel. It is not a show for bargain hunting — prices are artist-set and the grails go fast. It is for people who want the object and the story of the object at the same time. Anyone hunting licensed mass-market merchandise will find almost none of it here, and that absence is the entire point. The scheduling detail that catches first-timers every year: opening night is not a public day. Friday evening is VIP-only, so a general badge gets you in on Saturday, not Friday, and the people who paid up have already walked the floor before you arrive. Plan around it — the best pieces move in the first ninety minutes of each day, which makes Saturday morning the serious shopping window and Sunday the better day for actually speaking with artists, when the crush has thinned and tables are not three deep. Go in with a short list and a hard budget, because the floor is built to defeat both. Bring a padded bag; resin chips, and nobody wants to explain a cracked grail to airport security. The art toy scene spent two decades proving that a figure made by one person in a small batch could matter as much as anything with a studio logo on the box, and this is the room where that argument gets settled every year. The hunt does not end when the doors close on Sunday. It just moves to whatever the artist makes next. November 13–15, 2026. Friday is VIP only, 5–9 PM; Saturday 10 AM–7 PM with doors at 9 AM for VIP; Sunday 10 AM–5 PM. The Expo at World Market Center, 435 S Grand Central Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89106.

69th Annual Grammy Awards 2027 — Los Angeles, CA

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69th Annual Grammy Awards 2027 — Los Angeles, CA

Feb 7, 2027 Crypto.com Arena, 1111 S Figueroa …

Music's biggest night. The night every artist, producer, songwriter, and engineer in the industry stops pretending they don't care about awards and watches to see if the Recording Academy agrees with what they already know in their bones. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony takes place in early February 2027 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles — the Recording Academy's home turf, where the Staples Center renamed itself and the Grammys kept coming back. The format is unchanged and irreplaceable: live performances from the biggest names in music, acceptance speeches that range from tearful to transcendent, and an Album of the Year announcement that will dominate every group chat, comment section, and podcast by Monday morning. The Grammys are not just an awards show — they are a live concert featuring collaborations that exist only for this one night: artists from different genres sharing a stage, tributes to legends who shaped the industry decades before anyone in the audience was born, and debut performances from artists the Academy is betting will define the next era. The red carpet alone is a cultural event that generates more fashion discourse than most runway shows. The after-parties — particularly the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala — are where the real stories happen, where the industry's power brokers and its newest stars occupy the same room. Broadcast live on CBS and Paramount+, typically starting at 5:00 PM Pacific. In-person attendance is by invitation, industry allocation, and purchased tickets through the Recording Academy — check grammy.com for ticket lottery information and premium experience packages when announced in late 2026. You don't have to agree with every winner to feel the weight of the moment when someone hears their name called. The Grammys are the music industry arguing about itself in public — and we all watch because the argument matters. Because the songs matter. Because on this one night, the people who made them get to stand in a room full of their peers and be told: we heard you, and it was extraordinary.

Topanga Vintage Market — Woodland Hills Aug

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Topanga Vintage Market — Woodland Hills Aug

Every last Sunday · Next Oct 25 $5-$10 admission Pierce College, Mason Avenue Parki…

Fourteen years is how long one buyer has been hunting one specific Bakelite something, and he will be back this month working the rows in order, because the entire hobby runs on the belief that somebody, somewhere, has the thing. Once a month the Pierce College lot fills with about a hundred and seventy dealers and the people who hunt them. Mid-century furniture. Denim with exactly the right wear. Costume jewelry, oddball signage, instruments somebody loved and somebody else is about to. The early crowd arrives at seven for first pick; the later crowd comes to talk to the dealers, which is its own reason to go. Parking is free, cash and Venmo both work, and after a few months the buyers half-know each other. Fourth Sunday of the month, out in Woodland Hills. The thing you cannot find online is exactly what the fourth Sunday is for.

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Dragon Con 2027 — Atlanta, GA

Sep 2, 2027 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, 265 Peac…

Most conventions rent a building. This one takes a city. Over Labor Day weekend the entire hotel district of downtown Atlanta is absorbed — five host hotels connected by skybridges, tens of thousands of people moving between them at all hours, and a parade down Peachtree Street that closes the road and draws crowds who are not attending at all. Dragon Con is the closest thing American fandom has to a carnival, and the distinction from a trade show is not cosmetic. Because it is spread across hotels rather than a convention center, the event never has a closing time. Programming runs past three in the morning. There are more than forty separate fan tracks, which means the schedule includes serious literary panels, a robotics track, a puppetry track, several music stages and an entire independent film festival, all running simultaneously. The costuming is on a different level from other conventions — people build for a year — and the skybridges function as continuous informal runways where that work gets seen. It is also famously a drinking convention with a well-developed late-night culture, which is either the appeal or the warning depending on who you are. Worth it? If you want the most all-encompassing and least corporate large fandom experience in the country, there is nothing else like it and the scale genuinely surprises people. If you want a quiet, structured weekend or you are bringing small children, this is the wrong one — it is loud, crowded, and does not sleep. The honest summary is that Dragon Con is a festival that happens to be about fandom rather than a convention with a party attached. What to know: host hotel rooms are gone roughly a year in advance and staying on the skybridge network versus off it is the single biggest variable in your weekend. Atlanta in September is hot. The parade is Saturday morning and worth setting an alarm for even if you are not in it. Buy your badge early — the price ladder is steep. And accept that you will miss most of what you wanted to see; everyone does. It is on this list because a fandom that builds an entire temporary city once a year is a genuine American cultural phenomenon, and knowing it happens changes your sense of the scale of this thing. Dragon Con 2027 begins September 2, 2027 across downtown Atlanta.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2027 - Oshkosh, WI

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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2027 - Oshkosh, WI

Jul 26, 2027 Wittman Regional Airport, 525 W 20…

For one week every summer a regional airport in Wisconsin becomes the busiest airport in the world, and the control tower stops using callsigns because there is no time for them. Controllers talk to pilots by the colour of their aircraft instead. Rock your wings if you copy. EAA AirVenture gets described as an airshow, which undersells it to the point of inaccuracy. It is closer to a temporary city of aviation people, roughly 600,000 of them, who fly in from everywhere and then camp underneath the wings of the aircraft they arrived in. Around ten thousand planes come. They park in rows on the grass sorted by type, so you walk past a field of homebuilts and then a field of warbirds and then a field of 1940s taildraggers whose owners are sitting in lawn chairs beside them, visibly waiting to be asked about it. That last part is what people miss. There is no velvet rope anywhere on the field. The man restoring a P-51 will talk to you for forty minutes if you ask one honest question, and the whole convention runs on exactly that transaction. Friendships and more than a few careers have started at a folding chair beside somebody's airplane. Practical things worth knowing: it is hot, it is flat, and it is enormous, so the people who enjoy it most are the ones who accept early that they will not see all of it. Camping in the North 40 among the arriving aircraft is the real experience and fills up far in advance. The afternoon airshow runs daily regardless of what else is happening, and the night airshow, which closes with pyrotechnics fired from aerobatic aircraft trailing fire, is the one veterans tell first-timers not to skip under any circumstances. Bring ear protection you would actually wear, because warbird departures are not loud in the way a concert is loud. The arrival procedure has become folklore in its own right. Pilots flying in follow a railroad line to a town called Ripon and then on to Fisk, flying a published approach while making no radio calls of their own, simply being spoken to from the ground. There are people who train all year to do this once, and who talk about it afterward the way other people talk about a pilgrimage. Most readers will never set an aircraft down on a coloured dot on a Wisconsin runway while someone in a lawn chair tells them which one. Knowing that it happens every July is a slightly larger life than not knowing.

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Sam First Wednesday Jazz Residency

Every Wednesday · Next Oct 28 $20 Sam First, 6171 W Century Blvd, Lo…

Fifty-five seats, no bad ones, close enough that you hear the breath before the note. Musicians fly into LAX and play the same night because the room is five minutes from the airport, so the bill on any given evening might include the touring player who happened to have a day off. Sam First is that rare thing -- a jazz club built for the acoustic intimacy of a New York room, dropped a few minutes from the runway in Inglewood. The booking philosophy is simple and unbending: working jazz musicians playing standards and originals at a level that the city's own working jazz musicians show up to watch. Two sets nightly, Tuesday through Saturday, at seven-thirty and nine-thirty. Wednesday is Hump Day -- reduced cover, same booking, same room. The crowd is the LA jazz community plus whatever visiting players are in town with the night free. This is the show you drag the friend to who says they don't get jazz -- fifty-five seats will fix that. Twenty dollars Wednesday cover; drinks separately.

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