The 824 Journal https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Santa Ana’s Free Plaza Navideña Lights the Downtown Holiday Tree on November 21 Cerritos Holds Its Veterans Day Commemoration at the Civic Center on November 11 Field of Valor Plants More Than 1,200 American Flags at Handy Park in Orange, November 7 to 12 Rancho Los Cerritos Opens a Free Día de los Muertos Ofrenda in Long Beach, With a Painting Workshop on October 24 Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch Runs Daily Through November 1 Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Hosts Sea Scare! Monsters of Myth in San Pedro on October 17 Norwalk’s 41st Arturo Sanchez Sr. Halloween Parade Steps Off October 17 Yorba Linda’s Trail & Treats Halloween Hike Comes to Travis Ranch Youth Park on October 24 Santa Ana’s Free Jerome Spooktacular Brings a Haunted House and Costume Contest on October 24 Shipley Nature Center Hosts Enchanted Trails, a Halloween Afternoon in Huntington Beach, on October 24 Heroes Hall Hosts a Veterans Day Celebration at the OC Fair & Event Center on November 14 MOLAA Hosts a Free Día de los Muertos Festival in Long Beach on October 25 ICAN’s Free Inclusive Halloween Festival Comes to Torrance on October 17 Battleship IOWA Hosts Its Free Halloween STEMebration in San Pedro on October 31 MainPlace Hosts a Día de Muertos Festival With Art Workshops in Santa Ana on October 24 Heritage Museum of Orange County Hosts a Free Día de los Muertos Celebration in Santa Ana on November 1 Bowers Museum Hosts a Free Mexican Day of the Dead Family Festival in Santa Ana on November 1 Tustin’s Free Halloween Howl Moves to the Tustin Library Courtyard on October 30 Trick-or-Treat on 2nd Street Returns to Belmont Shore in Long Beach on Halloween, October 31 Pacific Symphony’s Symphony Spooktacular Brings a Halloween Family Concert to Costa Mesa on October 24 Costa Mesa’s Free Scarecrow Festival Returns to Lions Park on October 10 Boo at the Oaks Offers Free Halloween Night Hikes at Santiago Oaks on October 17 Pretend City Children’s Museum Hosts Halloween’s Eve Trick-or-Treating in Irvine on October 30 UC Irvine Hosts a Free Día de los Muertos Celebration at the Irvine Barclay Theatre on November 2 OC Parks’ Fall-O-Ween Brings Free Halloween Nights to Heritage Hill in Lake Forest, October 16 to 25 Ghouls Night Out Brings Free Costume Contests to 2ND & PCH in Long Beach on October 30 Strategicon Gateway 2027 Guide: Labor Day Weekend Gaming, a Power Grid Finale Tradition, and Four Days at the LAX Hilton Strategicon Gamex 2027 Guide: 78 Straight Hours of Tabletop Gaming Over Memorial Day Weekend at the LAX Hilton Isaiah Rashad: Finding Room to Breathe LA Times Festival of Books 2027 Guide: Free Admission, 500-Plus Authors Last Year, and an April Weekend at USC CTN Animation eXpo 2026 Guide: 18 Years of CTNX, Early-Bird Passes, and Four Days During Burbank’s Animation Week LightBox Expo 2026 Guide: Brad Bird, Yoshitaka Amano, and 200 Hours of Art Talk at the Pasadena Convention Center Palm Tree Music Festival 2026 Guide: Kygo, The Chainsmokers, Zedd, and Two Days on a Carpinteria Polo Field Fight to Unite 2026 Guide: Punk Rock Bowling Takes Over The Belasco With Lambrini Girls and a Fat Wreck Birthday Bixby Park Hosts a Free Kids’ Halloween Festival in Long Beach on October 25 Goblins on the Greenbelt Brings Free Trick-or-Treating to Belmont Heights on October 25 Lakewood Sheriff’s Station Opens Its Haunted Jail for a Halloween Night on October 23 El Dorado Nature Center Hosts Its Howl-O-Ween Festival in Long Beach on October 17 Vision Films Releases Sci-Fi, Psychological Thriller ‘Isolation’ After Labor Day Freestyle Digital Media Releases Social Impact Dance Drama “BALLROOM” The Hero Rats of Cambodia: A Gold Medal for Magawa and a World Record for Ronin Curve Blue Releases New Album by Deuter: What the Elephant Told Presents Gentle Ambient New Age Music Segerstrom Center for the Arts: Costa Mesa’s Performing Arts Nonprofit Philharmonic Society of Orange County: Concerts and Free Music Education Since 1954 What F1’s 2026 Rules Change for the Las Vegas Strip San Diego Author Lizzete S. Tupas Explores the Hidden Cost of Competence in Debut Novel Always on a Tuesday New Historical Fiction Novel by G. Todd Smith, Josie: A True Story of Race, Rescue, and Resilience C. Jervey Hatcher’s The Bosch Kanal Blends Robots, Reality, and Dark Speculative Fiction D. G. Chapman Introduces Veritas Core in the Gripping Technothriller ‘THE WORLD WE COULD’ Author Brian Brady Leaves San Francisco Behind for a Globe-Trotting New Thriller, ‘The Crew’