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Anime Los Angeles 2027

Jan 7 – Jan 10, 2027 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

Some knowledge you cannot buy: which panels are worth lining up an hour early for, which guest signings empty out fast, which late-night rooms never make it onto the printed schedule. Regulars hand that down to each other here, and it is the real inheritance of a convention that has been meeting for over two decades. The tradeoff for running smaller than Anime Expo is access. To the guests, who trend toward voice actors and fan creators who build their year around Southern California cons. To the programming, which you can actually get into. To each other — the dealer room and artist alley run at a scale where you can move without turning sideways. Four days at the Long Beach Convention Center, January 7-10, 2027, and they open the convention calendar for the whole region. Send this to whoever you stood next to in line last year. They are already planning.

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Long Beach Comic Expo 2027

Feb 6, 2027 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

At most conventions the person who actually drew the thing is behind a rope with a line and a forty-second window. Here they are sitting at a table with an empty chair beside them. That is the entire identity of this one-day show: writers, pencilers, inkers, colorists, letterers — working professionals available for a real conversation about the craft instead of a signature and a shove. The floor treats mainstream and alternative as equals, Marvel and DC in the same aisles as independent publishers and self-published creators who came because the audience here came specifically for comics. Artist alley carries a density of professional quality that bigger, more casual shows cannot match. One day only, at the convention center downtown, with the Metro A Line running straight into Long Beach. Check the official site for the date. Go with the person who lent you their first trade paperback. Buy them something original.

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Long Beach Comic Con 2026

Sep 5 – Sep 6, 2026 From $20 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

Somewhere along the way the big conventions stopped being about comics and started being about movie trailers. This is the one that didn't drift. Two days built around the actual thing — the pencilers and writers and colorists and letterers who came precisely because the people in this room came for the work, not the IP announcement. That focus changes the whole texture of it. The dealer room is back issues and original art and independent publishers you won't find at the mega-shows. The artist alley is close enough to reach without a strategy. The panels are about craft — how the page gets made — instead of a studio sizzle reel. If the bigger cons priced you out or wore you down, this is the one that kept faith with the reason you started reading in the first place. Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E Ocean Blvd — October 17–18, 2026, from $20 at longbeachcomicexpo.com. It's right on the water with the Pike a short walk for lunch. Pick your anchors and let the floor fill in the rest.

Long Beach Expo — The Collectibles Show 2026

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Long Beach Expo — The Collectibles Show 2026

Sep 9, 2026 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

In a closet, in a binder with plastic sleeves, you have something worth more than you think. And in Long Beach Convention Center Hall C, someone has been waiting since 1964 to tell you exactly how much. The Long Beach Expo is the West Coast's longest-running collectibles show — over 400 dealers filling a convention hall with coins, banknotes, sports cards, stamps, antique jewelry, and precious metals. PCGS sets up on site to grade and authenticate. Heritage Auctions runs lot viewings. The floor is a living marketplace where a 1909 penny and a 1952 Mickey Mantle share shelf space with ancient Roman coins and vintage watches. This is the show that serious collectors build their calendar around. But it's also where newcomers walk in with a bag of grandpa's old coins and walk out understanding that they've been sitting on a story worth telling. Meet the Expert sessions run daily. Giveaways pull you in. The conversation at every table is the same: the thing is worth what someone will pay for it, and there are 400 someones here who agree. September 9–11. Long Beach Convention Center, Hall C. longbeachexpo.com.

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Agenda Show Long Beach 2026

Aug 6 – Aug 7, 2026 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

The biggest booth on the floor is almost never where the conversation is. It is the small table in the corner, a brand on its second or third season, somebody who still has something to prove and forty minutes to explain it to you. Walking this show slowly is the entire skill. The fall edition carries different inventory than the January one. Brands come back from summer with lines that did not exist eight months ago, things that began as samples on a garage floor, collabs that read differently in August light than they ever will in a lookbook. If you work in this industry, this is where fourth-quarter decisions get made over a handshake. If you only orbit it, this is where you see what is coming before it lands anywhere else. Long Beach Convention Center on Ocean Boulevard, registration at agendashow.com. Be there the moment it opens, because the corner tables run out of attention first.

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Midsummer Scream 2026: Horror Musicals

Aug 7 – Aug 9, 2026 35.0 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

Some people do not celebrate Halloween so much as survive the other eleven months. If you know who you are, this is the weekend that carries you across the summer. The Hall of Shadows is the reason. A blacked-out stretch of the convention center holding more than a dozen fully built haunts — not teasers, not previews, the real thing — running all three days and included with every badge, no upcharge, no separate line. It is the biggest indoor haunt zone in California outside of October itself. Past that: 350-plus vendors selling costumes, props, seasonal decor, original art, and the vintage pieces that make a stranger grab your arm. Panels on haunt design, practical effects, and cosplay construction, taught by the people who actually build the season. Long Beach Convention Center in August, with weekend and single-day passes online ahead of time. Send it to whoever puts their skeletons up in July. They already knew.

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Agenda Festival — Long Beach 2026

May 30 – May 31, 2026 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

Agenda Festival Long Beach opens the Long Beach Convention Center to the public on May 30, 2026 — every brand in the skate, surf, and streetwear ecosystem under one roof, for a day that feels more like a cultural moment than a shopping event. Agenda started as a trade show. It became something else when it opened to the public: a festival where the brands aren't trying to sell you anything because they already know you. The skate community, the surf community, the streetwear collector — they come here because this is where the industry gathers, and being in the room feels different from browsing the same brands online. Drops happen at Agenda that don't happen anywhere else. Limited pieces from small labels sit next to launches from names you already know. The Long Beach Convention Center has the scale to hold it. Arrive early — the floor gets busy by mid-morning and the brand activations with any kind of queue fill up fast. This is the kind of event that feels like insider access even when it's open to everyone, because the people who show up are the people who care. That's the crowd. That's the room.

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Animé Los Angeles 2026

Jan 8 – Jan 11, 2026 Long Beach Convention Center, Long…

LA’s premier anime convention featuring celebrity guests, cosplay contests, interactive gaming, and the hottest anime screenings. Your anime fandom comes alive here.

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Long Beach Comic Con 2025

Aug 30 – Aug 31, 2025 Long Beach Convention Center, Long…

Your best conversation of the weekend will be with somebody sitting behind a folding table with a stack of their own comics and no line yet. That is artist alley, and it is why people who have done every big convention still make room for this one. The floor carries the whole spread — comics, film and television, gaming, and the collectibles that only surface when a collector finally decides to let go. Panels run from the superhero machine down to indie books three people have read, and the creators who made them are in the room instead of on a screen. The cosplay contest is where six-month builds finally get judged by people qualified to appreciate the seam work. It takes over the convention center on the Long Beach waterfront for a weekend, floor and panels together. Go with the friend whose long box you have been hearing about for years.

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Long Beah Comic Expo

Sep 2 – Sep 3, 2024 Long Beach Convention Center

Experience the ultimate gathering of comic book enthusiasts, cosplayers, and pop culture fans at the Long Beach Comic Expo! Discover new comics, meet your favorite artists and writers, participate in cosplay contests, and immerse yourself in panels and workshops covering everything from superhero sagas to indie sensations.

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Fairfax Vintage Market — Los Angeles

Every other Saturday · Next Oct 10 Free 611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA…

You are not going to find it online. That is the entire reason people keep setting a Saturday alarm and walking a stretch of sidewalk they have already walked a hundred times. Fairfax is the street that defined California streetwear, and the market that sets up here on alternating Saturdays is dense in a way most vintage markets are not: deadstock, rare denim, band tees that were on somebody's body at the actual show, nineties sportswear, sneakers, accessories. What separates it is the sellers. These are people who know exactly what they have, which means the conversation is half the transaction, and the good pieces do not sit around waiting for you to think about it. Free to walk in, on Fairfax, with the active Saturday schedule posted online. If your style came from anywhere other than a mall, this is your Saturday. Bring the friend with the better eye and race them to the racks.

Ocean Beach Antique District Street Fair 2026 — First Saturdays

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Ocean Beach Antique District Street Fair 2026 — First Saturdays

Monthly · Next Nov 1 Free Newport Ave, Ocean Beach, San Dieg…

Every first Saturday, Newport Avenue does something different. The antique shops — which are there every day, but quieter — open their doors wider. The street fills in ways that Newport doesn't on a regular weekend. There are pieces in the windows that have been waiting years for the right person, and a fair amount of that person's time is spent outside, talking to the shop owner about how the thing got there. Ocean Beach has one of the last genuine antique districts in San Diego, which is no accident. The dealers who run these shops chose Newport Avenue because of each other. The cluster is the point — you can walk from one discovery to the next without moving your car. The monthly street fair brings out vendors who don't keep a permanent shop, alongside the established stores. Mid-century modern, coastal California, Japanese ceramics, surf-era ephemera — the district's identity comes through in what it accumulates over time. Newport Ave between Bacon St and Abbott St, Ocean Beach, San Diego. Free to browse. First Saturday of every month.

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C2E2 2027 — Chicago, IL

Apr 30, 2027 McCormick Place, 2301 S King Dr, C…

Chicago spent years being treated as a stop rather than a destination on the convention circuit, and the show that changed that did it by being unusually good at the unglamorous parts — floor layout, panel scheduling, actually letting people talk to creators. C2E2 has grown into the Midwest's flagship pop culture convention, held each spring at McCormick Place on the lakefront, and it now draws six figures of attendance across a weekend. The experience is defined by scale plus air. McCormick Place is one of the largest convention buildings in North America, which means that even at peak Saturday the floor does not have the crushing quality that smaller venues develop. The artist alley and the comics guests are substantial, the anime and gaming presence has grown considerably, and the cosplay championship is a serious competitive event rather than a costume parade. What regulars single out is the programming: panels here are frequently craft-focused and long enough to get somewhere, and the moderators generally know the material. There is also a genuinely good kids' area, which makes it workable as a family weekend rather than a thing one parent does alone. Is it worth it? If you live anywhere in the middle of the country, this is your show and there is no real competitor — the alternative is flying to a coast. If you already attend two or three large conventions a year on the coasts, C2E2 will feel familiar rather than revelatory, though the artist lineup is consistently strong. It is best understood as the most complete general-purpose fan convention between the coasts. What to know: McCormick Place is not downtown and the walk from most hotels is longer than the map suggests; use the shuttles or plan for a train. Chicago in late April can be forty degrees and windy off the lake regardless of what the forecast promised. Food inside is expensive and mediocre — eat before or walk to the south loop. Buy exclusives Friday morning or accept you will not get them. And the smaller press tables at the back of artist alley are where the finds are. It belongs here because a healthy convention in the middle of the country is a real indicator about where fandom lives, and it is not only on the coasts. C2E2 2027 runs April 30 – May 2, 2027 at McCormick Place.

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Los Angeles Pinball League — Monthly Tournament

Monthly · Next Oct 13 Various venues, Los Angeles, CA

Somewhere in this city tonight there is a back room where the pinball never stopped — machines everyone assumed died with the arcades, lined up, lit up, and played for blood by people who know each ruleset cold. You thought it was nostalgia. They kept it a sport. Once a month the league runs a real tournament: matchplay, a new opponent and a random machine every round, points stacking across the night. It is IFPA-sanctioned, but that is not why the regulars come. A good table is the most honest machine there is. It does not care who you are, only whether you can read the ball. Here is what outsiders never expect: this crowd wants you to get good. Show up knowing only how to keep a ball alive and someone ranked will lean over between rounds and show you where the safe nudge is, when to let it drain on purpose. Venues rotate. Check the league's Facebook group and the IFPA calendar for this month's location. All-ages at most stops, 21+ at the bars.

LoL Worlds 2026 — Play-In Stage (Los Angeles)

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LoL Worlds 2026 — Play-In Stage (Los Angeles)

In 8 days · Oct 15 – Oct 18 Riot Games Arena, 12181 Bluff Cree…

Every region sends its dark horses, and most of them go home in the first week. That is what makes the opening stage the most nervous, least predictable stretch of the whole tournament. The Play-In Stage is where teams that did not walk in with a guaranteed bracket spot have to earn one, on foreign soil, against opponents they have only ever studied on video. Nothing is safe and nobody is comfortable. Upsets that reshape the entire championship happen here, in front of a few hundred people, before the broadcast audience has fully tuned in. Riot Games Arena is the tightest, loudest room in North American esports — small enough that crowd noise reaches the stage, close enough to watch a player's posture change when a fight goes wrong. From inside that building it is a different sport. Riot Games Arena, 12181 Bluff Creek Dr, Playa Vista. October 15-18. Tickets through lolesports.com. If you have only ever watched it on stream, this is the one to go to.

Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Jul 1 – Jul 4, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

You will be tired in a way that feels earned. Four days, a hundred thousand people, and not one of them needs you to explain what you are talking about. The largest anime convention in North America takes the Los Angeles Convention Center over Fourth of July weekend and spills into the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton beside it. Industry panels, screening rooms, autograph sessions with voice actors and composers, concerts that sell out weeks ahead. Studios from Japan use this as their main North American announcement stage — if a sequel or adaptation is being revealed, it often happens in a room you could be standing in. The exhibit hall carries imported merchandise and collaboration exclusives that surface nowhere else on the continent. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. Thursday through Sunday. Badges run from top-tier early-access down to single-day passes. Book the connected hotel corridor months out. Everyone who tells you that learned it the hard way.

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