The Museum of Redlands Opens, Art Takes Over State Street, and Foreigner Plays Next Door

No DeLorean needed. A band out front, a vintage flight simulator inside, and the rain clears Friday. This replaces the old preheader so it hints at the two new pieces: the Back to the Future article and the storm opening. One hundred characters is the top of your range.

Redlands Now

Oct 22, 2026

The Museum of Redlands Opens, Art Takes Over State Street, and Foreigner Plays Next Door

Free admission, 13 debut exhibits and the Fourth of July Band on Saturday, 50-plus artists downtown on Sunday, and the Halloween-weekend Fright Nights lineup I promised you.

Redlands Kid's family dream come true.

From the Groves

Why This Matters

If the rain is still coming down while you read this, you are not imagining it. Showers and thunderstorms rolled in Wednesday night, and the National Weather Service expects them to keep going through Thursday, with around an inch of rain possible in some spots before it tapers off Thursday evening.

Give yourself extra time on the roads this morning, and if you had anything outdoors on the calendar for Thursday, call ahead before you head out.

Then the sun comes back. Friday clears up, and Saturday and Sunday are expected to be sunny with highs in the upper 70s.

Good timing, because Saturday at 10 AM, after 26 years of work, the Museum of Redlands opens its doors. I gave you the backstory in September. Now all you have to do is show up.

Here is what else made the cut this week:

• The Museum of Redlands grand opening, with the Fourth of July Band out front
• A Sunday Art Walk that fills State Street for a good cause
• Eight international medals for a Redlands marmalade maker
• Eighty voices opening a season, a villain game show, and $15 stand-up
• Foreigner two nights at Yaamava’, and the Halloween-weekend Fright Nights titles

Let’s get into what’s happening around town.

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Museum of Redlands Grand Opening - Saturday, Oct. 24

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🏛️ HISTORY & HERITAGE

Saturday at 10 AM, the Museum of Redlands Finally Opens

Some projects in this town take a weekend. This one took 26 years. The Museum of Redlands opens Saturday, October 24, at 10 AM at 1 N. Center St., inside the reimagined Redlands Daily Facts building. Admission is free.

It starts outside. The Redlands Fourth of July Band plays, special guests say a few words, and the giveaways are keepers: a commemorative pin and a Joseph Stoddard watercolor postcard. Then you walk in to 13 debut exhibits, including an interactive timeline of local history, a vintage flight simulator, and a deep look at the citrus industry that built the streets we drive every day. The museum is managed by A.K. Smiley Public Library’s Special Collections team, so it is in good hands.

Here is why it matters. A lot of what made Redlands has been sitting in storage or in somebody’s memory. Now it has a home downtown, in the same building where the paper that covered all of it was printed. Opening day runs until 4 PM. Can’t make Saturday? Regular hours start Wednesday, October 28: Wednesday through Sunday, 11 AM to 4 PM, still free. Bring the kids, bring your parents, and ask the oldest person in your group what they remember about that building.

Source: Museum of Redlands grand opening

🎭 ARTS & CULTURE

Fifty Artists, One Street, and a Cause Worth Showing Up For

Sunday, October 25, from noon to 5 PM, downtown turns into a gallery. The Downtown Redlands Art Walk takes over State Street from Orange Street to Seventh Street, plus Fifth Street from the Ed Hales parking lot to Umbrella Alley. Those streets close to cars from 7 AM to 7 PM, so park a little farther out and walk in.

You get more than 50 artists, a Kid’s Zone, live music, a car show and food vendors, with every downtown restaurant a few steps away. It is listed as free. The day raises awareness for The Kid’s Cures Foundation, which helps families fighting for a child’s life with gift cards for gas, food and supplies, and gives those kids art supplies so they can put what they are going through on paper.

Two easy ways to help. Bring a pack of new art supplies, because they are collecting them at the event. Then stop and decorate a card for one of those kids. After that, buy something from a local artist and carry it home. That is a Sunday well spent.

Source: Redlands Patch: downtown streets close Oct. 25 for the Artwalk

🎬 Special: Back To The Future Day

Great Scott, We Passed It

Wednesday was October 21. If that date makes you think of a DeLorean, you are not alone.

In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel forward to October 21, 2015. Hoverboards. Flying cars. Self-lacing sneakers. When the movie hit theaters in 1989, that date felt impossibly far away. Now it is eleven years behind us, which means all of us are living further in the future than Marty ever went. We are still waiting on the hoverboards.

Here is the part that sticks with me. The movie was never really about the gadgets. It was about a kid figuring out that his town’s past and its future are connected, and that the choices people make over the years decide what a place becomes. Hill Valley had a clock tower at the center of it all, and a whole story built around saving it.

Redlands has its own version of that story, and it opens Saturday. The Museum of Redlands at 1 N. Center St. is the closest thing this town has to a time machine: 13 debut exhibits, a vintage flight simulator, and a walk through our history from the citrus groves forward. No plutonium required, and admission is free.

So celebrate a day late. Put the trilogy on this week, then go see where Redlands has been on Saturday morning. Where we go from here is up to us.

🌳 AROUND THE GROVES

🌳 Around the Groves

Haunted Hues at the Art Association. The Redlands Art Association’s new exhibit hangs October 24 through November 27 at 215 E. State St. Walk over after the museum opening, it is two blocks away.

Redlands marmalade, judged best in the world. Old California Botanicals, John P. Beall’s small-batch citrus kitchen, brought home eight medals from the 2026 World Marmalade Awards in England, including silver for its Redlands Navel. You can buy a jar in the new museum’s store, at Gerrards Market or at Feel Good Market. Want to meet him? Beall co-leads the Redlands Area Historical Society’s Hillside Cemetery walking tour on Halloween morning, 9 AM registration, $10 members, $15 everyone else. Details.

Día de los Muertos at Smiley Park, Nov. 1. A.K. Smiley Public Library hosts a free celebration from 10 AM to 2 PM, with ofrendas inside the Contemporary Club at 173 S. Eureka St., Mariachi Bohemio and St. Mary’s Ballet Folklórico, a Catrina costume contest for kids 4 to 12, and free food while it lasts.

Emilia is open on State Street. A new upscale Mexican spot at 404 E. State St., at Seventh, leaning into Veracruz-style seafood, grilled octopus and corn agnolotti. Dinner Sunday through Thursday, 4 to 9 PM, and until 10 on Friday and Saturday. Details.

🎶 Live Music Events

🍊 Live Music Events

Thursday 10/22

The Three Stags Irish Pub — Live Music, check @thethreestags.irishpub for this week’s performer

📍 328 Orange St, Redlands, CA | 🕐 Evenings, check the pub for start time

The weekend starts a night early on Orange Street.

Friday 10/23

Hangar 24 Craft Brewery — Strange Brew John Major, then Boots on the Runway line dancing

📍 1710 Sessums Dr, Redlands, CA | 🕐 Dinner set 5:00 to 8:00 PM | Line dancing 8:30 to 11:30 PM

Music with dinner, boots on after dark.

Septembers Taproom & Eatery — Heather L. Robison (listed on her site, check Septembers on Instagram before you go)

📍 515 Orange St, Ste B, Redlands, CA | 🕐 8:30 to 11:30 PM

Downtown’s late set, good taps and close quarters.

The Three Stags Irish Pub — Live Music, check @thethreestags.irishpub for this week’s performer

📍 328 Orange St, Redlands, CA | 🕐 Evenings, check the pub for start time

Friday at the Stags is a standing appointment for half of downtown.

Saturday 10/24

Hangar 24 Craft Brewery — Crossroad Kings, then Boots on the Runway line dancing

📍 1710 Sessums Dr, Redlands, CA | 🕐 Dinner set 5:00 to 8:00 PM | Line dancing 8:30 to 11:30 PM

Same shape as Friday, new band on the patio.

Ritual Brewing Co. — Live Music, check @ritualbrewingco for this week’s band

📍 1315 Research Dr, Redlands, CA | 🕐 8:00 to 10:00 PM

A Saturday night set in the taproom, and Ritual never charges a cover.

The Three Stags Irish Pub — Live Music, check @thethreestags.irishpub for this week’s performer

📍 328 Orange St, Redlands, CA | 🕐 Evenings, check the pub for start time

Saturday is the big night at the pub.

Sunday 10/25

Hangar 24 Craft Brewery — Line dancing class

📍 1710 Sessums Dr, Redlands, CA | 🕐 2:00 to 3:00 PM

Learn the steps Sunday so you are ready for Boots on the Runway next weekend.

The Three Stags Irish Pub — Ken O’Malley, Irish folk (listed on FolkWorks, confirm with @thethreestags.irishpub)

📍 328 Orange St, Redlands, CA | 🕐 4:00 to 7:00 PM

The perfect landing spot after the Art Walk wraps.

🎯 YOUR REDLANDS WEEKEND

🎯 Your Redlands Weekend

FRIDAY 10/23

Villains: Game On!

LifeHouse Theater | 1135 N. Church St., Redlands, CA | Adults $30 to $34, kids 3 to 12 $18 to $20

7:00 PM (also Saturday and Sunday at 7:00 PM)

LifeHouse’s villains crash spoofs of Family Feud, The Dating Game, The Price is Right and more. Kids are encouraged to come in costume, and the trick-or-treat trail is back after the show. Three nights only, and no children under 3, so plan the littlest ones a night off.

SATURDAY 10/24

Repair Cafe Redlands

Flores Senior Center | 111 W. Lugonia Ave, Redlands, CA | Free

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Bring the lamp that flickers, the toy that stopped, the clock that quit. Volunteer fixers take on bikes, clothing, jewelry, small appliances and electronics. Register by noon Thursday at repaircafe.ancaredlands.org for priority. Walk-ins are taken until 11 AM, two items max.

SUNDAY 10/25

Inland Master Chorale: Celebrate America

First Presbyterian Church of Redlands | 100 Cajon St., Redlands, CA | $35 advance, $40 at the door, students and kids $10

4:00 PM

Eighty voices open the Chorale’s 47th season alongside the All-American Boys Chorus. They moved here because Memorial Chapel is closed for repairs, almost exactly 100 years after construction on the chapel began in October 1926. Seating is limited, so buy ahead.

SATURDAY 10/24

Mission Pediatrics Halloween

Mission Pediatrics | 114 W. Vine St., Redlands, CA | Free

5:30 to 8:00 PM

Opening night of a nine-night Halloween run at the antique-filled Jenny Lind building. The first three nights are a light show with the gates closed, the walkthrough opens October 27, and a robot ringmaster takes over October 30. Insider tip: tune your FM radio or press the crosswalk button.

SATURDAY 10/24

Stand-Up Comedy: Chris Flail presents “Respectfully”

Smudgepot Brewing Company | 2025 W. Park Ave, Redlands, CA | $15, ages 18+

Doors 6:00 PM, show 7:00 PM

Flail has opened for Theo Von and Dave Attell and headlined from Los Angeles to Bangkok. Fifteen bucks, a cold pint and a room full of people laughing. Adults only, so get the sitter.

🎃 Halloween Fright Nights

As promised, here is how Harkins closes out its $6 October series on Halloween weekend. Two classics, two very different moods.

Harkins Mountain Grove 16 — Beetlejuice (1988)

📍 27481 San Bernardino Ave, Redlands, CA | 🕐 Friday 10/30 and Saturday 10/31, check harkins.com for showtimes

Michael Keaton at full volume. The one to bring the kids to.

Harkins Mountain Grove 16 — Halloween (1978)

📍 27481 San Bernardino Ave, Redlands, CA | 🕐 Friday 10/30 and Saturday 10/31, check harkins.com for showtimes

John Carpenter’s original, on the big screen, on Halloween night. That is the whole pitch.

🚗 Worth The Drive

🚗 Worth the Drive

Big nights just beyond the groves. These are not in Redlands, but they are close enough to matter.

Yaamava’ Theater (Highland) — Foreigner

📍 777 San Manuel Blvd, Highland, CA | 🕐 Friday 10/23 and Saturday 10/24, 8:00 PM, doors 7:00 PM (21+)

Two nights of a whole jukebox of songs you already know every word to.

Yaamava’ Theater (Highland) — Mon Laferte

📍 777 San Manuel Blvd, Highland, CA | 🕐 Sunday 10/25, 8:00 PM, doors 7:00 PM (21+)

The Chilean singer-songwriter closes out the weekend up the hill.

California Theatre of the Performing Arts (San Bernardino) — Route 66: The Main Street of America, plus Q&A with director John Paget

📍 562 W. 4th St., San Bernardino, CA | 🕐 Friday 10/23, 6:00 PM

One night only for the Route 66 centennial. Seating is limited, so get tickets ahead.

GRATITUDE & COMMUNITY

Gratitude & Community

Twenty-six years of meetings, donations and plain stubbornness come down to one Saturday morning. Be at 1 N. Center St. at 10 AM, let the Fourth of July Band play you in, and thank a volunteer on your way through the door.

If you snap a great photo at the opening, hit reply and send it my way.

See you around town,
Carlos Samaniego, EA
RedlandsNow.com

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That's all for this week! Thanks for reading, and we'll see you around the groves.

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