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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Disneyland Resort has committed an additional $1 million to its community workforce development initiative, bringing the total to $5 million. These funds support local nonprofits such as Orange County United Way, which provides career enrichment experiences for high schools in the Anaheim Union School District. Orange County United Way collaborates with schools in the Anaheim Union High School District in ...

During the Disneyland Resort’s annual “State of the Resort” event last week, President Ken Potrock announced Cal State Fullerton and Fullerton College would be joining the Disney Aspire program, through which the company picks up the entire cost of a college education for its hourly cast members. The announcement marks a historic expansion of the Aspire program:  due to the ...

WonderCon returned Anaheim today for the first time since 2019 as an in-person event. 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 at the Anaheim Convention Center today through Sunday, April 3. Attendees come from all over the ...

Speaking to an online meeting of the Anaheim Democrats Club this January, Anaheim Mayoral hopeful Ashleigh Aitken did not rule out imposing a gate tax if she is elected, telling the Democrat activist group that a gate tax is something the city should look at and not talked off the table as Anaheim recovers from the pandemic. According to a ...

The Sheraton Park Hotel, one of the hospitality icons of the Anaheim Resort, officially commemorated its re-opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration on Tuesday after a multi-million renovation. The Anaheim High School marching band was assembled in the grand ballroom to energize the event, and were followed by a welcome from General Manager Ian Gee. Mayor Harry Sidhu and ...