WonderCon returned to the Anaheim Convention Center yesterday, bringing with it throngs of comic, fantasy and sci-fi enthusiasts decked out as their favorite characters in what is known as “cosplay.” The popular fan show is one of the largest comic conventions on the West Coast, famous for attendees cosplaying as their favorite superheroes, sci-fi, fantasy or anime characters, will be ...

The 2022 Anaheim Prayer Breakfast is only three days away – on Thursday, October 6, 2022. The featured keynote speaker of this annual community event is former Navy SEAL Chad Williams, a combat veteran who served our nation from 2004 to 2010. Now engaged in full-time ministry work, Chad is charismatic and insightful and uses the training and experience he ...

The OC Auto Show has returned to the Anaheim Convention Center for the first time since 2019, and thousands of attendees will flock to the ACC through Sunday, October 2 to explore hundreds of new cars, trucks, crossovers, SUVs, electric vehicles, exotics and more. Show-goers are invited to sit behind wheels, inspect engines, and experience new technologies, and test-ride a ...

On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council voted unanimously to approve ocV!BE, an ambitious $4 billion development project by the owners of the Anaheim Ducks to transform the 100-acre area around the Honda Center with new entertainment, dining, residential, officce, hospitality, and lifestyle amenities. OcV!BE is an initiative of Henry and Susan Samueli, the longtime owners of the Anaheim Ducks and ...

UNITE-HERE Local 11, the militant hospitality workers union, is circulating an initiative to impose a series of costly labor rules – including a $25 an hour minimum wage – on Anaheim hotels and event venues. Buried in the initiative is language exempting hotels and event centers from these mandates if they agree to unionize. Obviously, the numerous Garden Grove hotels ...

Next month, it’s time to get your ghost on as Anaheim welcome’s its first paranormal convention: OC Paracon.  OC Paracon will “highlight the paranormal perceptions of its organizers, Paranormal Perception and Unearthing The Supernatural. Topics ranging from ancient entities, astrology, palmistry, Tarot, witchcraft, neurodivergent mediumship and more will be discussed on the main stage.” The convention take place at the ...

A militant hotel workers union hopes to place on the November 2024 ballot an initiative to impose a $25 an hour minimum wage on Anaheim hotels and event centers – while exempting hotels and event centers from that and other burdensome mandates if they agree to unionize. On August 29, UNITE-HERE Local 11 filed paperwork with the Anaheim City Clerk ...

On Monday, the Anaheim Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the ocV!BE project – an ambitious, 95-acre sports/entertainment/dining/residential/office mixed development project proposed by Henry and Susan Samueli that will transform the space surrounding the Honda Center. The Samueli’s own the Anaheim Ducks hockey team and Anaheim Arena Management, the entity that manages the city-owned Honda Center arena.  The Samueli’s purchased ...

It will be reptiles and amphibians galore this weekend in Anaheim when the Reptile Super Show and Breeders Expo arrives at the Anaheim Convention Center this Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10. Attendees and enthusiasts will have the opportunity to explore thousands of reptiles and amphibians: snakes and lizards of all shapes and sizes, turtles, tortoises, frogs, toads, newts, ...

COVID-19 was a devastating blow to Anaheim’s convention industry –  a huge economic driver for the city. But as the pandemic transitions to being endemic and the major shows return to the Anaheim Convention Center, the renewed economic impact of those shows is making itself felt. The marquee convention for Anaheim is the National Association of Music Merchants or NAMM, ...