May 26

FanimeCon (2023) | Anime Conventions | May 26 - May 29, 2023

FanimeCon, Northern California’s largest anime convention, is proud to be “By Fans, For Fans.” Packed with non-stop video programming, extraordinary costumes, music, games, tournaments, panels, and renowned international guests, this annual celebration of Japanese art and popular culture entertains a colorful spectrum of fans and friends.

The Attachment Diaries (2023) | U.S. Theatrical Releases | May 26, 2023

Directed by Valentín Javier Diment, The Attachment Diaries is a psycho-erotic thriller in Spanish with English subtitles. The film takes place in 1970’s Argentina, and begins as a desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes ….

About My Father (2023) | U.S. Theatrical Releases | May 26, 2023

Sebastian Maniscalco joins forces with two-time Oscar winner, Robert De Niro (Best Actor, Raging Bull, 1980), in the comedy About My Father. The film centers around Sebastian (Maniscalco) who is encouraged by his fiancée (Leslie Bibb) to bring his immigrant, hairdresser father, Salvo (De Niro), to a weekend get-together with her super-rich and exceedingly eccentric ….

The Machine (2023) | U.S. Theatrical Releases | May 26, 2023

Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father (Mark Hamill) are kidnapped back ….

National Photography Month | Cultural Events | May 1 - May 31

The invention of the camera has been traced back to the work of Ibn al-Haytham, a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age. While the effects of a single light passing through a pinhole had been described earlier, Ibn al-Haytham gave the first correct analysis of the camera obscura, including the first ….

Urban Beach Week (2023) | Music Festivals | May 26 - May 29, 2023

Urban Beach Week, also known as Black Beach Week, began in the 1990’s as a small urban fashion show. At the time the event was called Urban Fashion Week. Since then, Urban Beach Week has grown into a massive outdoor party event in South Beach over Memorial Day Weekend. Urban Beach Week is described as ….

Memorial Day Black Pearl Cultural Heritage and Bike Fest (1980) | Inaugurals, Motorcycle Rallies and Shows | May 24 - May 26, 1980

In 1980, the Carolina Knight Riders, formerly known as the Flaming Knight Riders motorcycle club, founded The Memorial Day Black Pearl Cultural Heritage and Bike Festival. The Carolina Knight Riders was originally a racially integrated motorcycle club and community organization created by New Haven, Connecticut resident Leroy Bolden in 1968. According to Vice.com, the New ….

Influencer (2023) | Streaming/VOD Premiere, Television Premieres | May 26, 2023

Influencer tells the story of Madison (Emily Tennant, Riverdale), a popular social media influencer who is having a lonely and uneventful trip in Thailand despite what she tells her followers on Instagram. While reflecting on her boyfriend canceling the trip, she meets CW (Cassandra Naud, “See”), a fearless and enigmatic traveler who offers to take ….