From Robert Cray and a craft fair to stand-up comedy, the OC Fairβs final weekend and a bioluminescence night cruise.
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Get the city-by-city coffee guide, plus the Water Lantern Festival, Back to the Future in concert, a Doobie Brothers tribute, line dancing and more.
The OC Fair opens, San Clemente gets salty with an ocean festival featuring surf contests, sandcastles, and a mermaid parade, and Ringling Bros. rolls into Anaheim.
This weekend brings a legendary train-mooning tradition, Mission Viejoβs hometown parade, and a BBQ Music Fest!
Pier concerts, parades, drone shows, lake fireworks, and beach celebrations to commemorate the nations 250th!
4th of July fireworks guide is here + Lagunaβs summer art festivals return and Doheny brings the surf culture!
A Luau Night Market, an art show, World Cup watch parties, summer concerts, harbor cruises, a multicultural festival and Father's Day fun.
Watch parties, live music, and better-than-brunch Dad ideas.
A private winery tour, BOGO ABBA tickets, line dancing, chili cook-offs, and summer concerts.
Summer concerts, beach trolleys, jazz festivals, drum circles, and sunset music right on the sand.
Chili cook-offs, trolley hops, reggae rooftops, speakeasy cocktails, and enough live music to keep your Memorial Day weekend fully booked!
Wine walks, art walks, night markets, Riverdance, sunset concerts, sound baths, and enough live music to keep your weekend fully booked without crossing county lines.
Still no plan? We found brunch, last-minute reservations, and a full weekend lineup across South OC like sound baths, Brandy Clark 2-for-1, vintage market, hikes, and theater.
A four-block vintage sale with 200+ vendors, concerts and drum circles at the beach, line dancing in the canyon, art walks this weekend in South OC is packed. I don't want to hear you saying "There's nothing to do!"
Weβre giving away tickets to celebrate, plus concerts, wine tastings, the Mission Viejo Green Expo (come say hi), a garden show and local markets.
Garden tours lead the weekend, but Record Store Day, food festivals, and live music are right behind it
Plus OC Food & Wine in Laguna Beach and a poolside music fest in Laguna Hills.
An easy ocean-view hike followed by drinks in a hidden canyon, plus Easter egg hunts, Bon Jovi at The Coach House, beachfront live music and OC's largest Japan cultural festival.
Egg hunts taking over South OC this weekend, plus stargazing, strawberry picking, garden tours, live music, and more
The biggest weekend of the year in San Juan Capistrano with a parade, mercado, and music everywhere you turn, plus Oingo Boingo at the Coach House and Gipsy Kings in Newport Beach
Irish pubs, live music, and corned beef and cabbage, plus OC Wine & Spirit Fest, a yoga hike in Baker Canyon, and a candlelit Pacific Symphony concert inside the Jeronimo Tunnel.
From line dancing in a vineyard and Johnny Cash tributes to pack dog walks and hidden wine bars, hereβs whatβs happening around South OC.
Start the year by doing something new. Weβve rounded up local, low-pressure ways to get out, meet people, and mix up your routine in South OC.
We pulled all our South OC trivia into one challenge. Letβs see how you do. Plus Line dancing, planetarium shows and movies await.
Every December cities host official showdowns to crown the most spirited homes. And now the judges have spoken. The lights are locked in. The bragging rights are real.