Art & Culture

Yibin – September 16, 2026 -- A new season of the China Media Group travel reality show "Travel China with the Spring Festival Gala" is currently airing, spotlighting Yibin as its second featured city after Yiwu.

The show turns entire cities into game boards for cultural exploration

The program uses live-action competitive games and immersive cultural exploration to convert a city's geography, heritage and modern development into variety entertainment, using Spring Festival Gala branch venue cities as its map. The first episode covered Yiwu, framing it as the "world's supermarket" through cross-cultural interaction segments that drew strong audience response.

Pensacola – September 16, 2026 -- "Safe Ground: A Green Beret's Mission to Remove Ukraine's Landmines" is now streaming on Prime Video in the U.S. and UK, available with a Prime membership or to rent or buy.

The premiere date marks Ryan Hendrickson's personal "Alive Day"

September 12 is the anniversary of the day retired U.S. Army Green Beret Ryan Hendrickson survived an IED explosion in Afghanistan in 2010 while attempting to rescue an Afghan soldier. Hendrickson, a Purple Heart and Silver Star recipient, recovered and returned to active duty before founding Tip of the Spear Landmine Removal.

Escondido – September 16, 2026 -- Boo Bash, a seasonal pumpkin patch and family fall festival, opens its first California location on Friday, September 18 at Mershops North County Mall in Escondido, running through November 1.

The festival turns a mall parking lot into a six-week fall destination

Organizers will convert the mall's parking lot into a more than 100,000-square-foot event space divided into five distinct zones. Attractions include pumpkins for purchase, a 60-foot pumpkin bounce pad, a petting zoo, a children's racetrack, inflatable rides, zorb balls, gem panning, face painting, carnival games and local food and retail vendors.

Live music and movie nights fill the six-week calendar

Boo Bash will host live music every Friday and Saturday night, alongside select movie nights and rotating family entertainment through the run of the event.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- New York fashion label HIROMI ASAI will present its Spring/Summer 2027 men's collection, "Akatsuki — Before the Dawn," at New York Fashion Week on Sunday, September 13, 2026, at 4:00 PM EDT.

The show, staged as a Flying Solo Show on a Midtown Manhattan rooftop, is invitation only. Designer Hiromi Asai has worked with Japanese kimono artisans since 2017, translating traditional textile craftsmanship into contemporary menswear; Asai first showed authentic kimonos at NYFW in 2016.

Eight looks trace the shift from night to first light

The collection's title refers to akatsuki, the Japanese word for the moment just before dawn. Its eight looks move through deep navy, charcoal and earthy tones before easing into soft whites and luminous neutrals.

Queens, N.Y. – September 16, 2026 -- Tickets for guided tours of Jim Henson's Creature Shop in Queens are on sale through December, priced at $150 plus tax and fees, with weekly Saturday slots and monthly Sunday dates available at JimHensonExperiences.com.

September marks Jim Henson's birthday with extra tour dates.

The Shop is running additional tours on September 26 and 27 to coincide with the back-to-school season and the anniversary of founder Jim Henson's birthday, featuring a look back at his life and legacy.

October tours line up with New York Comic Con weekend.

Visitors can view puppets and archival items with a Halloween theme, including characters like the Skeksis, drawing on the Shop's history of building unsettling creatures. Extra tour availability is scheduled for the New York Comic Con weekend for fans traveling to the city.

Hershey, Pa. – September 15, 2026 -- Cadbury is bringing chocolate to the runway with a crystal-covered clutch bag designed specifically to hold and share its XL chocolate bars, launched as part of a new multi-year U.S. marketing campaign called "There's Magic in More."

Only five of the bags exist, and none are for sale.

The Cadbury Clutch, created in partnership with New York-based fashion designer LUAR, features jewel-tone purple fabric, gold accents and individually applied Swarovski crystals. The crystal-covered flap alone took roughly eight hours to complete by hand. Inside, a concealed platinum-silver insulated lining keeps the chocolate cool.

Vancouver – September 15, 2026 -- Indochino has launched Hold the Room, its Fall/Winter 2026 campaign and collection, built around the idea that tailoring should serve an entire season of evenings rather than a single occasion. The made-to-measure menswear brand, which operates showrooms across the US and Canada, is rolling out the collection now both in stores and at indochino.com.

The campaign follows four friends across a single weekend, told in three chapters that move from a rainy afternoon arrival to a formal dinner on the final night.

Macao – September 15, 2026 -- More than 20 legendary hypercars from Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and Pagani go on free public display across Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace from September 23 to November 22, 2026.

The fourth edition of the "Wynn Signature – 2026 Hypercar Exhibition" ties its theme to the Year of the Fire Horse, a zodiac cycle that recurs only once every 60 years. Since launching in 2023, the event has become an annual fixture on the global automotive calendar.

Ferrari's three flagship halo cars unite under one roof

The F40, F50 and LaFerrari appear together, alongside additional Ferrari models spanning different eras, tracing the brand's shift from carburetor-era engineering to hybrid technology.

Ya'an – September 15, 2026 -- Diplomats, cultural experts and international students toured Ya'an, China, on September 9 as part of the "Ya'an in Dialogue with the World" cultural exchange event, visiting sites tied to giant panda conservation and centuries-old tea traditions.

Visitors tour the Bifengxia panda research base in Yucheng District

The group explored the Bifengxia Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, part of Ya'an's cultural tourism brand "Green Lungs of Sichuan, Home of the Giant Panda." François Tchiegue, ambassador for China-Africa Cultural Exchanges from Cameroon, crossed the site's see-through suspension bridge and described the fresh air and scenery, saying he was delighted by feeding animals and seeing giant pandas.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Coach unveiled its Spring 2027 collection at a runway show in downtown New York City, celebrating the house's 85th anniversary with a mix of slim tailoring, exposed construction and party-inspired leatherwork.

Creative Director Stuart Vevers reworks familiar Coach shapes instead of looking back

"For Coach's 85th anniversary, I was thinking about memory and the way familiar things change as we live with them," said Vevers. He said the team turned familiar Coach ideas inside out, softened them and left traces of a celebration on the pieces. The collection draws on archetypes long tied to his Coach work, including the trench coat, leather jacket, tuxedo, bias-cut dress and Western boot, with slim classical tailoring featuring clean shoulders and narrow sleeves.