The 37th Mariachi USA comes to the Hollywood Bowl on June 6 with top mariachi ensembles and a fireworks finale.

Broadway’s 2025–26 season finished at $1.91 billion and about 14.6 million attendees, with big weeks for hit plays helping keep receipts steady. Ticket price and a few heavy earners mattered most.

New renderings show a 32‑acre Fruitville Road campus as the Sarasota Orchestra announces an anonymous $11.7M gift to push the Music Center forward. The design emphasizes acoustics and climate resilience.

JapanFest Atlanta returns Sept. 19–20 at Gas South Convention Center with martial-arts demos, bonsai and ikebana workshops, a Ginza-style street and an omikoshi parade.

West Philly Porchfest marks its 10th anniversary this Saturday with more than 400 free performances across 190+ porches. The DIY festival fills Baltimore Avenue and surrounding blocks noon–6 p.m.

The Tabernacle Choir brings its Songs of Hope benefit to the Hollywood Bowl on June 24–25 with big-name guests. Ticket revenue will support global charities for women and children.

A new Nelson Mandela sculpture now greets travelers at Hartsfield‑Jackson. The work by Cape Town artist Marco Olivier was made from recycled ocean plastic.

The I'm So ATL campaign will place murals, sculptures and pop-up performances across dozens of Atlanta parks this summer and cap the run with a free festival at Piedmont Park.

ANODNB stages a farewell at Crowbar this Sunday as the Ybor venue winds down its lease; local drum-and-bass vets will play a $5 show in a cramped room.

Jeremy Rothman will take the helm of the Seattle Symphony on Sept. 1 as Benaroya Hall reopens for the 2026–27 season.

Berkeley’s Bay Area Book Festival runs May 29–31 with 350+ authors, dozens of stages and a free Bookworm Block Party. Evening headliners at The Freight are ticketed.

Carnaval San Francisco, the largest multicultural celebration on the West Coast that honors the diverse traditions of Latin America and the Caribbean, celebrated its 48th annual festival last weekend.

The Chicks will open a 16‑night Taking the Long Way anniversary tour at Detroit’s Fox Theatre on Sept. 30; presales begin June 3. The band will perform the album in full.