BRIC’s 47th Celebrate Brooklyn! season runs June 4–Sept. 19 at the Lena Horne Bandshell with 15 free concerts and three benefit shows, featuring Patti LaBelle, Common and Sheila E.

Belmont broke ground on a $58M Curb College building on Music Row that will add labs, studios and a Center for Mental Health in Entertainment.

EA (SOVEREIGN) follows the Kapu family’s decadeslong fight over Kauaʻula Valley and will have its international premiere at imagineNATIVE in Toronto.

Miss America will stage Aug. 28–Sept. 6, 2026 in West Palm Beach, with key events at the convention center, Kravis Center and Hilton amid a separate eligibility dispute.

Polar World at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History will close June 28, 2026 after more than 40 years. A farewell weekend runs June 26–28 with family activities.

Taste of Minnesota will highlight only Minnesota bands July 3–4, 2026, with Brother Ali and Poliça among the headliners. Free downtown shows will include food vendors, family activities and fireworks.

Salisbury says funding shortfalls forced it to pause the Maryland Folk Festival for 2026. City officials are exploring a possible fall 2027 replacement.

Palm Springs will host Marilyn 100 on May 30, aiming to gather roughly 500 Marilyn Monroe lookalikes for a Guinness World Record while the Academy Museum opens a Monroe exhibition the next day.

Bill Morrison's new short stitches court‑ordered Border Patrol bodycam clips with neighbors' cellphone video to reconstruct a tense, warrantless arrest in Albany Park and reopen questions about Midway Blitz.

Facing mounting deficits, the Chicago Sinfonietta will pause most programming for 2026–27 and lay off its administrative staff as it seeks to rebuild.

The Evel Knievel Experience opens June 27 in the Arts District, bringing Big Red, VR jumps and a heavy‑metal pizza parlor to downtown Las Vegas.

New renderings and a video tour show The Dalí Museum’s $65M, 35,000‑sq‑ft expansion, adding interactive galleries, a K–12 learning center and event spaces to its waterfront campus. Construction is slated for fall 2026 with a 2028 opening.

Doors Open Minneapolis returns May 9–10 with free access to 75 venues across the city — family activities, theater centennials, Fed tours and brewery stops. Here’s how to map the weekend.