Fandom Events
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Route 66 Turns 100: The Remaining Centennial Events Across America
Reported Feature
A coast-to-coast guide to the concerts, car celebrations, art shows, community festivals, history talks, races and holiday events still ahead.
Thirty Years Ago, Tamagotchi Taught Us to Love Something That Wasn’t Real
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The digital pets that made children worry about a few pixels are turning 30. New Jersey gets a monthlong pop-up, and Times Square gets a birthday party.
Lunar Faire Closes Its 2026 Season With Dark Carnival in Freehold and Halloweekend in Sussex County
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The traveling night market has two October dates remaining, with fire performances, unusual shopping, live entertainment and a seven-hour season finale.
Can Anime Help People Talk About Real-Life Problems?
Event Hyatt Regency New Brunswick · New Brunswick, New Jersey
At DerpyCon 2026 in New Brunswick, a returning guest who combines clinical social work, stand-up comedy and anime fandom offers a different perspective on the emotional lives of fictional characters, and the people who connect with them.
Jacksonville & the First Coast
Reported Feature
The big events, fairs, cons, pop-ups, free activities and sensory-friendly experiences to know for late 2026 and 2027
The Vampire Diaries Stars Reunite in New Jersey for Vampire Fan Weekend October 24–25
Event Hanover Marriott · Whippany, New Jersey
The Salvatore brothers are returning to New Jersey this October, as Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley headline Creation Entertainment’s Vampire Fan Weekend at the Hanover Marriott in Whippany on Saturday, October 24, and Sunday, October 25, 2026.
Xena and Gabrielle Are Coming to New Jersey as Salute to Xena Convention Sets 2027 Dates
Event Hanover Marriott · Whippany, New Jersey
Lucy Lawless and Renée O’Connor headline a three-day fan gathering at the Hanover Marriott in Whippany, February 5–7.
Alton Brown Brings Food, Science and a Little Mayhem to State Theatre New Jersey
Event State Theatre New Jersey · New Brunswick, New Jersey
The longtime Good Eats host comes to New Brunswick Oct. 24 for a more intimate live show built around demonstrations, music, storytelling and the kind of kitchen curiosity that made generations suspicious of Uni-taskers.
New Jersey ParaUnity Expo Brings Ghost Hunters, Cryptids and the Unexplained Back to Woodbridge
Event Woodbridge High School · Woodbridge, New Jersey
The 12th annual gathering returns Nov. 7 with paranormal television personalities, investigators, cryptid researchers, free lectures, exhibit rooms, vendors and a full day built around the strange corners of curiosity.
Super Jersey Comic Expo Opens 2027 Early-Bird Tickets Tonight
Event Iron Peak Sports & Events · Hillsborough, New Jersey
Discounted tickets for the April 17-18 return to Hillsborough go on sale at 9 p.m., with limited VIP inventory available through the end of the year.
The Jersey Devil Is Coming to Edison as NJ Punk Rock Flea Market Returns
Event New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center · Edison, New Jersey
The Beast Coast's largest independent DIY shopping experience is turning the NJ Expo Center into an eight-hour night market of art, vinyl, oddities, tattoos, food, live entertainment and Halloween-season chaos.
NJ Horror Con Dispatch: Ketchup, Karma and the Filmmakers Sharing a Space
Reported Event Delta Hotels Woodbridge · Iselin, New Jersey
A conversation with John Theissen Jr. and Danielle Francis revealed something bigger than two genre films: a small independent filmmaking ecosystem where directors, actors, editors and makeup artists keep showing up for one another.
NJ HorrorCon Dispatch: Michael Jayne Is Growing Something Strange in Mays Landing
Reported Event Delta Hotels Woodbridge · Iselin, New Jersey
A conversation with the Big Damn Films filmmaker turned into one of the convention's most interesting discoveries: ARBOR DAY: The Root of Evil, a South Jersey horror project shaped by recovery, persistence and the urge to make something entirely his own.
NJ Horror Con: I Came for the Horror, Stayed for the People Making It
Reported Event Delta Hotels Woodbridge · Iselin, New Jersey
At the tail end of a nor'easter, the hardest part of the day was getting from the car to the door. Once inside, NJ Horror Con was a dense, strange, funny reminder that the best convention stories are often the ones you never planned to find.
Clerks: Open All Night 3 Recap — Kevin Smith, a Nor’easter, and Fans From Across the Country
Reported Event SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
At Clerks: Open All Night 3, fans crossed the country and a nor’easter to spend the night inside a movie that has evolved into something bigger: a participatory ritual, a community, and a place people can still go.
The Monsters Are Checking In: NJ Horror Con Takes Over Iselin This Weekend
Event Delta Hotels Woodbridge · Iselin, New Jersey
The three-day convention and film festival returns Sept. 25-27 with Susan Sarandon, Kevin Smith, horror favorites, indie films, vendors, panels, cosplay and a whole lot of room for the unexpected.
Smodcastle Makes Avengers: Doomsday an Opening-Night Watch With Kev
Event SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Marvel’s biggest 2026 movie reaches Smodcastle on Thursday, Dec. 17, with Kevin Smith in the room for a Watch with Kev screening one night before the film’s official Dec. 18 release date.
Rocky Horror Was Never Just a Movie
Culture
The many lives of a cult classic that keeps changing shape
Super Jersey Spectacular Is Already Building Its Biggest Show Yet
Reported Event Iron Peak Sports & Events · Hillsborough, New Jersey
Early-bird tickets for the April 17-18, 2027 go on sale Oct. 1. Organizers are also planning more than 400 tables, expanded family programming, a new youth ticket and continued support for the National MS Society’s NJ Metro Chapter.
Somerset Patriot's All-Stars: Coby Morales and Garrett Martin Earn Their Place Among the Eastern League’s Best
Reported Event TD Bank Ballpark · Bridgewater, New Jersey
Morales turned a full season into the Patriots’ record book. Martin needed only 63 games to make his case.
The Comic Shop Became Part of the Town
Reported Event Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash · Red Bank, New Jersey
Kevin Smith's Red Bank footprint has grown from a fan destination into something closer to local cultural infrastructure.
Clerks Became a Place You Can Go
Reported Event SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Clerks: Open All Night 3 is not really about gaining access to three movies. It is about what happens when a movie becomes a destination, a pilgrimage and eventually a ritual people are willing to reorganize an entire night around.
Best Merch in the Minor Leagues. Five Somerset Patriot's Shirts Made the Case in 2026.
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A soccer jersey, a Margaritaville Hawaiian shirt, the club’s first hockey jersey, a Sopranos bowling shirt, and a WWE championship-belt jersey turned five nights at TD Bank Ballpark into a wearable snapshot of Somerset Patriot's (Yankees AA) 2026 season.
The Black Parade Is 20. Of Course It Comes Back on Vinyl and Cassette.
Culture
My Chemical Romance's 20th-anniversary edition arrives October 23 with expanded music, new James Jean artwork and enough gloriously physical formats to remind us that some albums were never meant to live only inside an app.
Do Something Ridiculous Long Enough and It Becomes Tradition
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Cape May’s United States National Froth Blowing Competition begins with beer foam and a joke, then wanders into something much more durable: membership, ritual, memory and a row of mugs that still knows which way the ocean is.
Monster Bash Returns to Historic Smithville, Where the Village Gets a Little Less Alive
Event Historic Smithville Village · Smithville, New Jersey
The Underground brings horror, local art, live music, costumes and a confirmed genre guest into one of South Jersey’s most deliberately quaint settings on Oct. 24.
Jamtoberfest Brings a Living Thread of the Allman Brothers Story to Flanders
Event Swim & Sport Club · Roxbury Township / Flanders, New Jersey
A Brother’s Revival is not simply revisiting a catalog. Its headliner carries direct musical connections to both the Allman Brothers Band and Dickey Betts & Great Southern.
Ricky and Julian Are Coming to the Calgary Sport Card Expo. The Cards Can Wait.
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The Sept. 18-20 show at Calgary’s Genesis Centre is bringing the Trailer Park Boys duo into a collectibles weekend built around autographs, memorabilia and the increasingly blurry line between sports fandom and pop culture.
Smodcastle Turns Trick or Treat Into a Live Heavy-Metal Halloween Party
Event SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
For the cult film’s 40th anniversary, Marc Price returns as master of ceremonies while Midnite Hellion performs the Fastway soundtrack alongside the movie on Oct. 30.
Darkside NJ Has Two More Chances to Get Weird This Fall
Event Mercer County Park Ice Skating Facility · West Windsor, New Jersey
Season of the VVitch arrives at Mercer County Park on Sept. 12, followed by a Friday the 13th Dark Market in Edison on Nov. 13.
Smodcastle Checks Into the Overlook for The Shining: Live on Stage
Event SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Raconteur Radio returns to Atlantic Highlands on Oct. 9 with a live theatrical parody built from scripts, sound, lighting, music and a cast that includes Kevin Smith in the least age-appropriate Danny Torrance casting imaginable.
From Khan to Kirk: New Jersey Marks 60 Years of Star Trek
Event New Jersey
The statewide anniversary calendar now stretches from restored films and fan dinners to library celebrations, a symphonic concert, musical parody and William Shatner himself. For one franchise, New Jersey has found a remarkable number of ways to say happy birthday.
Bound Brook Goes to Warp for a Three-Part Star Trek Celebration
Event Brook Arts Center · Bound Brook, New Jersey
Brook Arts Center is marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary with a film, a symphonic voyage and a New Jersey-premiere musical. Then William Shatner brings The Wrath of Khan to State Theatre New Jersey in January.
Nerd Fest Brings the Small-Con Advantage Back to South Jersey
Event Holiday Inn Swedesboro · Swedesboro, New Jersey
The Jersey Shore Comic Book Show returns to Swedesboro Sept. 20 with comic artists, indie creators, collectibles, Star Wars cosplay and the kind of convention floor where there is still time to stop and talk.
Lunar Faire’s Final Five Nights Move Across Five Very Different New Jersey Grounds
Event Middlesex County Fairgrounds · East Brunswick, New Jersey
The traveling witchy night market closes its 2026 season with Elements, Zodiac, Vasquerade, Dark Carnival and Halloweekend, and the setting changes almost as much as the theme.
William Shatner Is Bringing The Wrath of Khan to New Brunswick - Then Taking the Stage
Event State Theatre New Jersey · New Brunswick, New Jersey
State Theatre New Jersey will screen Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on Jan. 29, 2027, followed by a live appearance and audience Q&A with William Shatner. Tickets go on sale Sept. 18 at 10 a.m.
Open All Night: Kevin Smith Brings Clerks Back Home
Event SModcastle Cinemas · Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
On September 25, SModcastle Cinemas will run the entire Clerks trilogy through the night, with Kevin Smith in the room. The marathon is part nostalgia, part endurance test, and part reminder that very few filmmakers remain this accessible to the people who grew up with their work.
Six Degrees of Kevin Smith
Reported Event Iron Peak Sports & Events · Hillsborough, New Jersey
Before the doors opened in Hillsborough, the show was already revealing what made it work: access, ease, and a crowd connected by more than one kind of fandom.