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Rose Bowl Flea Market — Pasadena

Every 2nd Sunday · Next Oct 11 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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UCLA Bruins vs Wisconsin Badgers

In 10 days · Oct 17 $30+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Power runs up the gut, offensive linemen built like farmhouses, and a fanbase that travels in red and treats a road trip to Pasadena as a bucket-list vacation. Wisconsin football is a gorgeous throwback, and watching that Midwestern smashmouth idea collide with UCLA in the arroyo is one of the odder gifts of the Big Ten era, a clash of two entirely different football cultures played under the San Gabriels, in a stadium that makes even a routine October Saturday feel like a monument to something. The tailgate lots fill by mid-morning and the golf course out front becomes its own small country. The mountain views from the concourse are worth arriving early for on their own. Come watch the Bruins measure themselves against the kind of physical, ground-and-pound program the West Coast almost never used to see on its own turf. Bring the friend who insists college football is better in the Midwest. Let the arroyo make the counterargument.

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UCLA Bruins vs Michigan State Spartans

Oct 24, 2026 $30+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Green and white in the arroyo is still a sight that scrambles the brain a little — Michigan State, a proud Big Ten blue-collar program, three time zones from home, playing a late-October game in a stadium ringed by palm trees and mountains. That surreal collision is exactly why the new era of West Coast college football is worth seeing in person: matchups that used to only exist in bowl games or video games, now happening on a random autumn Saturday at the Rose Bowl. The Bruins get another heavyweight, the crowd gets another only-in-Pasadena spectacle, and the whole thing unfolds in the golden California light that makes Midwestern visitors a little jealous. Saturday, October 24, 2026, Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Claim a tailgate spot in the shadow of the San Gabriels, walk the historic concourse, and come watch two very different football cultures meet in the grand old bowl on a perfect fall afternoon.

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UCLA Bruins vs Nevada Wolf Pack

Oct 31, 2026 $25+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

A Halloween-night football game in the Rose Bowl is the kind of only-in-California autumn ritual the rest of the country doesn't get — costumes in the student section, the San Gabriels going dark behind the rim of the old stadium, and a Bruins squad that treats a non-conference date against Nevada as a chance to put on a show under the lights. This is the friendly, unbuttoned end of the college football schedule: easy tickets, families welcome, the tailgate lots on the golf course lit up like a block party. Saturday, October 31, 2026, Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Come for the mountain sunset over the arroyo, stay for a fun, low-stakes Saturday night of Bruins football, and bring the kid in the costume — this is the most relaxed way to see a game in the most beautiful stadium in the country.

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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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UCLA Bruins vs USC Trojans

Nov 28, 2026 $40+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Los Angeles only has one football rivalry that splits families and offices down the middle, and it ends the regular season every year with the Victory Bell on the line. UCLA and USC have been fighting over this city since 1929, blue and gold against cardinal and gold, the Rose Bowl or the Coliseum turning into enemy territory depending on the year — and in 2026 the crosstown grudge lands at the Rose Bowl as the season finale, with the bell, the bragging rights, and a whole year of trash talk riding on sixty minutes. There is no bigger local ticket in college sports. Saturday, November 28, 2026, Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Wear your colors into a stadium full of people wearing the other ones, get there early for the tailgates in the golf-course lots, and come find out which half of Los Angeles gets to spend the winter gloating. Whichever way it goes, it is the game the whole city will be talking about on Monday morning.

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Rose Bowl Game 2027

Jan 1, 2027 Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl …

New Year's Day has a shape here it does not have anywhere else: floats down Colorado Boulevard in the morning, and by afternoon ninety thousand people in an open-air bowl that has stood on the same ground since 1923. Do both and the day becomes one continuous thing. The Granddaddy of Them All is the oldest bowl game in college football, and the open sky is the whole difference — no enclosed stadium reproduces a January afternoon in Pasadena with the mountains sitting behind the rim. Brookside Park fills with tailgates from early morning, and the RV lots are a tradition of their own among people who have been coming for decades. Take the Gold Line in on game day; it beats driving and skips the lots entirely. The matchup is not settled until the December championships, which is half the fun. Commit to the day before you know who is playing.

Just Like Heaven Festival 2027 — Pasadena

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Just Like Heaven Festival 2027 — Pasadena

May 3 – May 4, 2027 Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl …

Nobody involved is pretending this is new music, and that honesty is exactly why it works. Most of these headliners made their most important records decades ago. The records held up. The crowd knows precisely why it is standing in front of each act, which is not something you can say about a general festival field. Past bills have run Portishead, New Order, Slowdive, Mazzy Star, The Cure, Cigarettes After Sex — indie, post-punk, dream pop, shoegaze, sequenced by people who understand the difference between nostalgia and quality that simply aged well. The Rose Bowl handles it at human scale: a walkable floor, stages placed so you are not forced to choose between two things you drove out for, and food that reflects the city instead of standard festival concessions. Gold Line and shuttles run on the day. Send it to the friend whose entire personality is a shoegaze playlist. They will know before you finish typing the message.

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UCLA Bruins vs Purdue Boilermakers

Sep 19, 2026 $30+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Nobody quite expected to see Purdue at the Rose Bowl on a September Saturday, and that surreal novelty is exactly what makes the new Big Ten era of West Coast football worth experiencing in person. UCLA hosting a Midwestern program in the most beautiful stadium in the sport — the San Gabriels behind one end zone, the arroyo golden in the late-summer light, eighty thousand seats wrapped around a field that has hosted Rose Bowls and World Cups and Super Bowls — is a genuine only-in-Pasadena spectacle. Early-season optimism, a fresh conference opponent, and one of the great cathedrals of American sport. Saturday, September 19, 2026, Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Get there hours early for the famous golf-course tailgates, walk the concourse under the old bones of the stadium, and come watch the Bruins open Big Ten play in a setting that makes even a random September game feel like an occasion worth dressing up for. Make the drive to Pasadena and see for yourself why this stadium is a bucket-list stop for any football fan.

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Just Like Heaven Festival 2026

Aug 22, 2026 Brookside at Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose …

Some of these songs got into you before you had any say in the matter — a car radio, an older sibling's bedroom door, a movie you were too young to be watching. You did not choose them. They chose the shape of you. That is the whole trick of this bill. It books artists whose catalogs crossed over from music into memory, decades and genres apart, and somehow they hold together in a way nobody can explain on paper. Brookside is the right ground for it: open field, mountains at the edge of your vision, Pasadena heat carrying sound the way outdoor sound is supposed to travel. And the crowd is half the show. Everyone there wants to be there, which changes the air completely. Come early enough to settle before the afternoon sets. Blanket, sunscreen, shoes you can stand in all day. Text this to whoever you would have called the first time one of these songs wrecked you.

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UCLA Bruins vs San Diego State Aztecs

Sep 12, 2026 $30+ Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasa…

Early-season college football in Southern California has a specific flavor — the heat still baking the parking lots, the optimism of a season where every team is still undefeated, the pageantry firing up for the first time all year. UCLA hosting San Diego State at the Rose Bowl is a genuine SoCal collision, the big-brand Bruins against a rising Aztecs program that is done being anyone's warm-up game, in one of the most beautiful settings in American sports with the San Gabriel Mountains looming behind the end zone. For fans of either school it is a road trip or a home date circled since the schedule dropped. Saturday, September 12, 2026, Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Get there early for the tailgate lots and the mountain views, pick your shade of blue, and come watch two Southern California programs open their seasons against each other in the grand old bowl in the arroyo. Bring a group, make a whole day of it, and let a September Saturday at the Rose Bowl remind you how uncomplicated college football feels before the standings start to bite.

96th Annual AmericaFest — Rose Bowl, Pasadena 2026

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96th Annual AmericaFest — Rose Bowl, Pasadena 2026

Jul 4, 2026 From $20 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasadena, CA 91…

Some people think a backyard sparkler is enough for the Fourth. The crew at the Rose Bowl has spent ninety-six years arguing the opposite — that the right way to mark the day is to put a hundred thousand people inside America's Stadium and set off the largest fireworks show on the West Coast over their heads. AmericaFest is built to fill a whole day. Gates and the Family Fun Zone open at 1pm. TNT Freestyle Motocross comes back for a thirty-minute, high-flying show, country artist Drake Milligan plays, and the night leans into the stadium's own century of history before Pyro Spectaculars by Souza takes over the sky. Families spread blankets across the field, kids run loose until dark, and when the first shell goes up the whole bowl tilts its head back at the same moment. Saturday, July 4, 2026. Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena. Lots open at 1pm; tickets start around $20 and kids 5 and under are free for general admission. Bring a blanket, get there early, and stay for the part a backyard can't give you.

FoodieLand Food Festival Los Angeles 2026

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FoodieLand Food Festival Los Angeles 2026

Jul 3 – Jul 5, 2026 20.0 Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl …

Two hundred fifty vendors at the Rose Bowl means three days of deciding. That's the festival. FoodieLand returns to Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena for July 3-5, 2026 — the nation's largest multicultural food festival, bringing together local and regional vendors, artisan shops, and live music against the backdrop of a stadium that holds the scale. The vendor mix reflects Los Angeles: Korean BBQ, Filipino cuisine, Mexican street food, Japanese desserts, Peruvian ceviche, and the independent restaurant operators who don't have permanent brick-and-mortar in the neighborhoods you're from. Many vendors are pop-up only — this is where you find them. The Fourth of July falls on Day 2. Expect the largest single-day attendance on Saturday the 4th. The live music programming runs throughout. Free parking. Open July 3-5. Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena. Most vendors are cash-preferred — bring both. The scale means you'll cover more ground with flexibility. Come hungry and come with time.

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Head In The Clouds Festival 2026 — Pasadena

Aug 8, 2026 $179+ Brookside at the Rose Bowl, 360 N …

You get homesick for a room you did not know existed. Somewhere between the bass drop and the third bowl of pho it lands on you: this place was built for people who spent years being the only one in every other room. Katseye headline a lineup that reads like the group chat your coolest friend curates. XG bring razor-sharp choreography out of Japan, Rich Brian delivers the bars that put Jakarta on the map, UMI turns the sunset into a lullaby, and Dabin.kr reminds everyone Korean R&B did not begin with the algorithm. Food threads through the art installations. The merch drops are gone by mid-afternoon. One day on a wide field under the San Gabriel Mountains in Pasadena, gates at midday, music until dark. It is all ages, which matters, because the crowd runs three generations of the same family: grandparents who remember when none of this existed, parents who fought for it, and kids who assume it always did.

Mexico vs Australia: International Friendly

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Mexico vs Australia: International Friendly

May 30, 2026 From $35 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasadena, CA 91…

Mexico takes on Australia in a summer international friendly at the historic Rose Bowl in Pasadena. One of the most iconic soccer stadiums in the world, the Rose Bowl hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final and remains the gold standard for large-scale soccer in the United States. This clash gives fans a chance to see two competing national programs at full strength ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on home soil. Gates open two hours before kickoff. Parking is available in multiple lots surrounding the stadium — Lots H, I, and K are closest to the main entrance. Rideshare drop-off is designated on Arroyo Boulevard. Concession stands offer a mix of American and Latin food throughout the stadium. Family-friendly sections are available throughout the bowl. Supporters groups from both nations are expected to create a full-stadium atmosphere from the opening whistle. The Rose Bowl seats over 90,000 for soccer configurations, making this one of the largest international friendly venues in North America. Wear your colors, bring a flag, and arrive early for pre-match atmosphere. This is a preview of what 2026 will look like when the World Cup arrives on American soil.

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2026 Rose Bowl

Jan 1, 2026 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA

The 2026 Rose Bowl promises to be a legendary event, showcasing the best of college football in the iconic Rose Bowl Stadium. Known as "The Granddaddy of Them All," this historic game will feature top teams from across the country, battling for supremacy in a game steeped in tradition. As the first game of the College Football Playoff, the 2026 edition will take the intensity to new heights, with fans flocking to Pasadena to witness electrifying touchdowns, game-changing plays, and unforgettable moments. Expect a weekend filled with tailgating, cheerleading, and a celebration of college football's finest athletes. With the backdrop of California's stunning landscape and a rich history that dates back to 1902, the 2026 Rose Bowl is set to be an unforgettable culmination of talent, spirit, and passion. 🏈🌹 #RoseBowl2026 #CollegeFootball #GameDayTradition #FootballLegacy

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Just Like Heaven 2025

May 10, 2025 Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, CA, US

Just Like Heaven 2025 was held August 23 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The curated indie and alternative festival brought together the best of post-punk, shoegaze, and dream pop against the backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains.

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Rams vs. Bills — Monday Night Football at SoFi Stadium

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Rams vs. Bills — Monday Night Football at SoFi Stadium

In 5 days · Oct 12 SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Ing…

Monday Night Football at SoFi is not a game you watch on your couch. It's a place you go. The stadium turns into its own city for four hours — the tailgate lots open mid-afternoon, the scoreboard is the size of a building, and the crowd noise at SoFi does something to your chest that your TV cannot replicate. The Rams host the Buffalo Bills on Monday, October 12 in a cross-conference matchup that brings one of the NFL's loudest fanbases into LA's living room. Bills Mafia travels, which means SoFi will have the rare energy of two fan cultures colliding — one that tailgates in shorts and one that tailgates through folding tables. The MNF broadcast on ABC and ESPN kicks off at 5:15 PM Pacific. The Monday night SoFi experience — the light show, the open concourses, the walk back to the car under the Inglewood sky — is the thing the broadcast cannot carry. Monday, October 12, 2026. 5:15 PM PT. SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Inglewood 90301.

San Diego FC vs Houston Dynamo at Snapdragon Stadium

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San Diego FC vs Houston Dynamo at Snapdragon Stadium

In 7 days · Oct 14 9449 Friars Rd, San Diego, CA 92108

By October the arithmetic gets simple and cruel. Three weeks left, the bracket nearly set, and a home win is the difference between a favorable first-round draw and a road trip nobody wants. That changes the air inside Snapdragon this late in a season. The crowd is more focused, every chance gets examined twice, and everyone in the stands is quietly counting how few home matches are left. Houston arrives as the kind of Western Conference side that has always punched above its market, organized enough to take points anywhere, which is exactly the opponent you want when you are trying to learn what you actually are. The south end is the thing to watch. By now the supporters know each other by name and know every chant cold, and the noise has stopped being enthusiasm and turned into something accumulated. Trolley in and walk up with the crowd. Bring the friend who insists they do not follow soccer. Late autumn is where that argument goes to die.

Rady Children's Invitational 2026 — NCAA Basketball at USD

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Rady Children's Invitational 2026 — NCAA Basketball at USD

Every day · Next Nov 26 Jenny Craig Pavilion, University o…

The week of Thanksgiving in San Diego smells like the ocean even when you are indoors. And inside the Jenny Craig Pavilion on the University of San Diego campus, four teams that have no business being in a gym this small are about to play basketball that matters. Texas. UCLA. Georgetown. Saint Mary's. The Rady Children's Invitational brings teams with decades of NCAA tournament heritage to a venue intimate enough that you can hear the sneakers. This is not a neutral-site afterthought — it is a legitimate early-season test where every team is trying to prove something before conference play starts. UCLA fans in San Diego do not need an excuse to show up. Texas fans in town for Thanksgiving now have a reason to stay an extra day. Two days. Four games. Championship and third-place games on FOX. For every ticket sold, five dollars goes to Rady Children's Hospital San Diego — the hospital that keeps the city's kids healthy. November 26-27, 2026. Jenny Craig Pavilion, University of San Diego. Two-day passes from $95. Games on FS1 and FOX.

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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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