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style · Oct 13, 2026
Forget the Field: Eastside Kings Turns One Austin Corner Into a Blues Crawl
On October 17–18, East 12th and Chicon will trade the giant-festival sprawl for guitars, horns, soul food, and a whole lot of wandering.
music · Oct 12, 2026
Country Found a New Voice on Richmond’s Riverfront: Cherokee
At the Richmond Folk Festival, Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey sang country music in Cherokee—and made an old American sound feel wonderfully unfinished.
weirdness · Oct 11, 2026
Figure Skating’s Missing Noun Is Back—and It’s Scratched Into the Ice
At Lake Placid’s black-ice championship, the main event can be the drawing left behind after the skater glides away.
style · Oct 10, 2026
A Navy Hangar Is About to Get Very Fresh
Everybody Eats Festival turns Alameda’s Gold Bar Hangar into a giant Bay Area cookout, streetwear drop, and local-music meet-up on October 10.
music · Oct 9, 2026
Turn Up the Black Pearl: A Festival Finds Its Beach
Sunsets & Soul arrives in Atlantic Beach, where a nightclub helped build a Black resort town from the sand up.
weirdness · Oct 8, 2026
Tybee Island Is Throwing a Pirate Party Where the Old Hiding Place Becomes the Stage
For four days, a Georgia island with real pirate history trades secrecy for mermaids, marching krews, and a whole lot of public nonsense.
style · Oct 7, 2026
Big Balloons, Tiny Balloons, Then Cumbia: Albuquerque’s Best Fiesta Detour
On Balloon Fiesta Day 5, the city’s giant sky spectacle gets a delightfully small echo—and lands in Old Town for a music-and-dance relay.
music · Oct 6, 2026
Let the Old Recordings Talk Back
Lafayette’s Festivals Acadiens et Créoles opens with musicians answering archive sounds in public—and then lets the conversation loose across Girard Park.
weirdness · Oct 5, 2026
Evansville’s Nut Club Has Built a 137-Restaurant Street Monster
A 1921 masked ball grew into a six-day carnival where local nonprofits run the kitchens, the parade rolls, and fried brain sandwiches get their moment.
style · Oct 4, 2026
Mehregan Gets the Full Orange County Weekend Treatment
An ancient Persian harvest celebration is showing up today as both a museum afternoon and a nine-hour music festival. Honestly, that feels right.
music · Oct 3, 2026
Fresno Put a Hip-Hop Cypher in the Family Album
At Great Valley Gathering, mariachi, a Mono blessing, lion dance, and Fashawn’s closing cypher share one very public patch of downtown.
weirdness · Oct 2, 2026
Missouri’s Chicken Festival Has a $4,000 Egg-Eating Prize, Because Apparently We Deserve Nice Things
A nearly 90-year-old hatchery opens its doors this weekend for duck races, poultry glamour, human crowing, and a whole lot of hard-boiled eggs.
style · Oct 1, 2026
Miami’s Broadway Plaza Is Going Full Domino Park Tonight
At the Arsht Center, Cuban music, dancing, and domino tables are turning a downtown arts plaza into somewhere people might actually linger.
music · Sep 30, 2026
Brooklyn’s 24-Hour Raga Festival Is Letting Dawn Book the Bands
Ragas Live turns a Red Hook weekend into a clock-shaped listening party, where midnight, sunrise, and late afternoon each get their own sound.
weirdness · Sep 29, 2026
Pumpkin Season Has a $30,000 Boss Battle
Half Moon Bay’s annual weigh-off turns one fragile orange fruit into a backyard engineering project, a Main Street spectacle, and maybe a new world record.
style · Sep 28, 2026
Conker Combat Is Coming for the Pub Lawn
On October 11, Southwick turns a horse-chestnut seed on a string into a full-contact autumn sport.
music · Sep 27, 2026
Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Songs Meet the Farm-Festival Crowd
At Woodsist’s final Arrowood weekend, devotional music once made for a private spiritual community gets a big, open-air hearing.
weirdness · Sep 26, 2026
The County Fair Went Goth, and Ventura Said Come On In
The fifth Seaside Oddities Expo opens today at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, turning a civic hall into a handmade horror bazaar with a sideshow pulse.
style · Sep 25, 2026
Worcester’s Old Pasture Is Borrowing Bahia’s Best Idea: Make a Circle
On Sunday, Institute Park is scheduled to swap quiet pond vibes for samba, capoeira, food, and a free public party built around participation.
music · Sep 24, 2026
Tonight, New Orleans Lets the Rumble Drive the Mothership
NOLAxNOLA opens with The Rumble playing P-Funk at Tipitina’s, where Black Masking Indian rhythm meets a very large groove.
weirdness · Sep 23, 2026
A Carrot Piano Is Moving Into an Old Naval Shipyard
Maker Faire Bay Area turns 20 at Mare Island, where warship history meets potato drums, retro 3-D games, and machines built because somebody had an idea.
style · Sep 22, 2026
Urbana Is Throwing a Costume Party for the Night Shift
The Central Illinois Bat Festival turns backyard bugs, bat calls, and a patch of dark sky into one very good public hang.
music · Sep 21, 2026
Baltimore’s High Zero Lets the Dice Pick the Band
At this improvised-music festival, balloons, harpsichords, iPhones, and total strangers all get a turn at the wheel.
weirdness · Sep 20, 2026
Somerville’s Fluff Festival Has a Robot Making S’mores, Because Apparently That’s Civic Life Now
For its 21st year, What the Fluff? turns a sticky 1917 invention into a street-level collision of games, music, food access, murals, and mechanical campfire snacks.
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