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Ultimate guide to Comic-Con 2026: Schedules, tips, things to do
Our ultimate guide to Comic-Con 2026: Here’s everything we know
Comic-Con is back in San Diego. The Union-Tribune shares information on schedules, events and more.
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PUBLISHED: July 21, 2026 at 6:05 PM PDT | UPDATED: July 22, 2026 at 11:13 AM PDT
Comic-Con International is back in San Diego this week, and all signs are pointing to major Hollywood moment MOVIES.
San Diegans can expect an explosion of activity around the San Diego Convention Center where the event takes place Wednesday through Sunday. A badge is required to get inside to see panels with titles such as “Mad Rewind: Talking About Mad TV,” “How to Build a Droid 101” and “The Future of Doctor Who.”
But outside the convention, activities representing various fandoms, brands and studios welcome anyone willing to wait in line for an exclusive opportunity.
The San Diego Union-Tribune has been covering the local event for years, bringing inside knowledge and up-close looks at the colorful convention to readers. Here’s all our coverage so far, with more updates coming throughout the week to sandiegouniontribune.com/tag/comic-con.
Wednesday at Comic-Con
Comic-Con International starts Wednesday, July 22, at the San Diego Convention Center with a preview night that helps attendees get badges early and avoid long lines the next day.
The main events on preview night are mainly taking place away from the convention center at the Marriott Marquis hotel with viewings of Star Trek episodes and cult classic movies.
Read more here: Here’s your Wednesday schedule
Thursday at Comic-Con
The first official day of Comic-Con International starts on Thursday, July 23, with the star-studded cast of a new action film, a K-pop boy band and producers of two anticipated foreign films.
Hollywood is back in force with the cast of a new action thriller, “Onslaught,” starring Adria Arjona, coming off the Star Wars show “Andor”; Dan Stevens, known for “Downton Abbey” and dozens of projects; and Rebecca Hall, an actress known for numerous movies including the Godzilla vs. King Kong films.
Read more here: Here’s your Thursday schedule
Friday at Comic-Con
The second day of Comic-Con International on Friday, July 24, will feature the casts and creators of HBO’s newest superhero show, as well as the stars of the new “Spaceballs” movie.
HBO’s return to Comic-Con, which had taken a few years off, comes courtesy of “Lanterns,” a new show based on the DC Comics character Green Lantern. The cast is expected to take the stage at Hall H, including Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre.
Read more here: Here’s your Friday schedule
Saturday at Comic-Con
Comic-Con International’s biggest day on Saturday, July 25, will feature the return of the headline-grabbing Marvel Studios after a one-year absence.
Marvel Studios, producers of “Spider-Man,” “Avengers” and “Iron Man” films, will take over the convention’s biggest room, the 6,500-seat Hall H. The studio is famous for breathtaking announcements and bringing A-list actors to America’s Finest City.
Apple TV is also returning this year after taking several years off. Expect big stars for its Hall H panel that will feature casts from shows and films, “Dark Matter, “Silo”, “Mayday” and “Matchbox the Movie.”
Read more here: Here’s your Saturday schedule
Sunday at Comic-Con
The final day of Comic-Con International on Sunday, July 26, will conclude with activities for children and the return of the basketball-playing dog “Air Bud.”
Sunday is traditionally the day set aside for kids, and parents can expect plenty of events to keep the little ones entertained: the Children’s Film Festival, drawing classes and more. While occasional big panels take place on Sunday, this year is light on anything not related to children.
Read more here: Here’s your Sunday schedule
26 things to expect in 2026
To help get your planning started, here’s a list of happenings from A to Z. The full convention calendar of events can be found online at comic-con.org.
This is a look at a range of Comic-Con features including Artists’ Alley, the Her Universe Fashion Show, author events and more.
Read more here: An A to Z guide to 26 things to expect at Comic-Con 2026
Celebrity sightings to expect
For the celebrity-obsessed, Comic-Con is like Christmas in July — when Hollywood comes to town with a sleigh filled with celebrities.
The official day-by-day schedules released last week have given us a peek into what this year’s Comic-Con holds for us, with names ranging from John Cena and George Takei to Rebecca Romijn and Kate McKinnon.
Read more here: Hollywood’s coming to town. These are the celebrities set to attend this year
Things to do outside Comic-Con without a badge
Comic-Con-themed events will appear across the city, from interactive fan experiences and immersive pop-ups to live shows, contests and special activations. Whether you’re a dedicated fan without a badge or simply looking to soak up the atmosphere, these events offer plenty of ways to experience the excitement beyond the walls of the San Diego Convention Center.
Read more here: Your guide to events outside Comic-Con that don’t require a badge
Tips, tricks, and advice
Here’s what to know about transportation, road closures and parking as people from all over the U.S. and around the world arrive to attend the convention.
Read more here: Planning to attend Comic-Con? Here are some tips for transportation and parking
Food and drink specials
The San Diego Convention Center has upped its game a bit in the food and drink department during Comic-Con in recent years, but for convention attendees looking for meals and cocktails outside the center, here are some of the specials available July 22-26 and beyond.
Read more here: 8 places to eat and drink outside the convention center during Comic-Con
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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Education Department said on Thursday it was removing several “disparate impact” regulations, which for decades have prohibited policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended.
Sixty civil rights and education groups issued a statement on Thursday condemning the change, saying the regulations being removed were crucial to protect students from systemic discrimination based on race, color and national origin.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April 2025 opposing disparate impact regulations and asked federal agencies to not enforce them.
The move is part of a wider push by Trump against diversity initiatives, which he calls anti-merit and discriminatory against groups like white people and men.
Civil rights advocates have long condemned Trump’s actions, saying they are rolling back social progress and are removing practices aimed at helping marginalized groups like ethnic minorities, women and the LGBT community.
The Education Department said on Thursday disparate impact rules had prevented schools from clamping down on minority students who were disruptive and led educational institutions “to consider race and engage in racial balancing.”
“The left’s notion of ‘equity’ should never prevent teachers from keeping their classrooms and students safe. With these changes, schools will be empowered to address classroom issues without fearing the federal government will weaponize anti-discrimination laws,” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a statement.
The dozens of rights groups protesting the move said the regulations were crucial to protecting against measures such as school closure and discipline policies that often appear neutral but tend to harm or set back Black, Native American, Hispanic, Asian American and Pacific Islander students.
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The Defense Department has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech to host a revamped fellowship program for senior military officers — the first universities approved after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth severed partnerships with top universities.
The two universities will participate in the new Senior Service College Fellowship, a 10-month professional military education program that will serve as an alternative to traditional war colleges. Additional university partners will be announced at a later date, according to the department.
“We are deeply honored to participate in the Senior Service College Fellowship program. The program fits well within the context of our mission of service, and we take tremendous pride in our deep, longstanding relationship with the United States military,” Lee H. Roberts, UNC’s chancellor, said in a statement.
The announcement follows an earlier move from Hegseth to bar military officers from attending graduate programs at several elite universities including Harvard University, Brown University, Princeton University and Yale University.
Hegseth, who graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Kennedy School, argued that the universities had become “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”
“We demand that senior service colleges work to sharpen our war fighters on genuine national security issues, not social justice activism,” the Pentagon chief said.
Anthony Tata, the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, said the fellowship overhaul is intended to better prepare senior officers for future conflicts.
“The Department of War is revitalizing professional military education to ensure that our warfighters are prepared to achieve peace through strength,” Tata said in a statement.
“We are proud to partner with Chancellor Roberts and UNC-Chapel Hill — a university with a rich tradition of service and support for our men and women in uniform — to develop a rigorous new Senior Service College Fellowship Program, equipping our officers to meet our critical national security mission,” he continued.
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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them – Open Culture
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
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Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose sold so well that its English translator William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the “Eco Chamber.” The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian news clip just above, may not be as wittily named, but it’s a much more ambitious project. It was opened this year, the tenth anniversary of the famed philosopher, semiotician, novelist, and critic’s death, at the University of Bologna, where he was a professor from 1971 to 2007. Housing more than 32,000 books from his personal library in Milan (previously featured here on Open Culture, and the subject of its own feature-length documentary), it stands as an explorable concrete representation of his capacious mind.
So capacious was that mind, in fact, that the Eco Library actually comprises several libraries, chiefly the Rare Book Library and the much-subdivided Working Library. In them, one encounters sections “dedicated to literary genres, comics and popular culture, works by and about Umberto Eco” — including more than 2,000 editions and translations of his own books — “ancient and medieval philosophy, the history of ideas, semiotics, translation and theories of language,” says the University of Bologna’s magazine Unibo.
There are “Italian, French, English-language, German, Central European, Slavic, Latin American and many other literatures,” including works of “detective fiction and science fiction, popular literature and the feuilleton.” As anyone who’s read Eco’s essay on Peanuts might imagine, “his comic book collection is also of great importance.”
Indeed, as any fan would expect, Eco’s namesake library reflects not just the vast sweep of his humanistic interests and knowledge, but also his playful sense of eccentricity, and even grotesquerie. According to the Fondazione Umberto Eco, most of the volumes it contains “are marked by a distinctive ex libris,” an adaptation of a sixteenth-century woodcut that depicts a donkey on a cornucopia-topped latrine. “The animal plays a small pipe, setting in motion a merry dance of a dozen cavorting monkeys.” The books themselves have been painstakingly arranged just as Eco shelved them, in accordance with the “good neighbor” principle of placing seemingly unrelated titles in close proximity in order to reveal unexpected intellectual connections between them. The volumes from Eco’s country house in Monte Cerignone will also be incorporated into the collection, but as the man himself knew, the best libraries, like the best minds, are never truly complete.
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Coffee and heart health: How many cups of caffeinated coffee are safe to drink each day? – American Heart Association
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Coffee and heart health: How many cups of caffeinated coffee are safe to drink each day?
Although the relationship between caffeine and cardiovascular health is complex, the latest research indicates consuming up to 5 cups of caffeinated coffee per day (up to 400 mg of caffeine/day) is safe for most adults and may be linked to cardiovascular health benefits in some individuals, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement.
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Statement Highlights:
- The latest research indicates that consuming up to 400 mg of caffeine/day (equivalent to up to 5, 8-ounce cups of caffeinated coffee per day) is generally safe for most adults and appears to be linked to a lower risk of several cardiovascular conditions, including heart failure, heart disease and stroke in some individuals.
- However, higher amounts of caffeine, such as levels found in energy drinks including energy shots, may increase the risk of high blood pressure and/or irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.
- More research is needed to better understand caffeine’s impact on the body, how different sources of caffeine impact heart health and how its impact may vary among different people, according to the scientific statement.
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DALLAS, July 20, 2026 — Previous studies have found that caffeine is the world’s most popular stimulant and psychoactive substance, and coffee is the most common way people consume caffeine. The latest research supports the conclusion that for most adults, consuming up to 400 mg of caffeine/day (or up to 5, 8-ounce cups of caffeinated coffee per day) is safe and appears to be linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease for some individuals. However, higher doses of caffeine, such as levels found in energy drinks including energy shots, may cause cardiovascular harm, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement, “Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease,” published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship peer-reviewed scientific journal Circulation.
“Caffeine consumed in coffee is a key part of daily life for millions of people, and in our review of the most recent research, for most adults, intake of up to 400 mg of caffeine/day, the equivalent of up to 5 cups of caffeinated coffee per day without added sugars or fillers, is safe and does not increase cardiovascular risk,” said Chair of the scientific statement volunteer writing group Gregory M. Marcus, M.D., M.A.S., FAHA, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and the associate chief of Cardiology for Research at the University of California, San Francisco Health. “However, high doses of caffeine, such as those found in energy drinks including energy shots, may have harmful effects on the heart and should be avoided.”
The statement authors note that studying the effects of caffeine on the cardiovascular system is challenging. Coffee is the main source of caffeine in most research studies, and the observed cardiovascular effects may be due to other compounds in coffee. For example, experimental studies suggest that the bioactive compounds in coffee may have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which may help explain some health benefits. It’s also difficult to separate the effects of caffeine from other ingredients usually added to coffee, such as milk, cream, flavored syrups and/or sugar. In addition, most studies on caffeine are observational, meaning they cannot prove cause and effect.
Although coffee is the main source of caffeine for most adults, tea, chocolate, soda and energy drinks, as well as over-the-counter and prescription medications, also contribute to overall caffeine intake. More research is needed about other products with caffeine in order to understand caffeine content and caffeine’s impact on cardiovascular health.
The new scientific statement details the most recent research primarily on caffeinated coffee and the potential impact of caffeine in coffee on high blood pressure, cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, other arrhythmias and other cardiovascular conditions.
Caffeine and cardiovascular health: key things to know
- Based on the results of the latest research studies reviewed, consuming up to 400 mg of caffeine per day, or no more than 3 to 5, 8-ounce cups of regular black caffeinated coffee per day (without sugars, sweeteners, flavors or added fillers), is considered safe for most adults. A regular brewed, non-specialty, caffeinated coffee typically contains 9.4-20.6 mg of caffeine per fluid ounce.
- Consuming caffeinated coffee without added sugars, flavors or cream was linked to a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, heart failure and some irregular heart rhythms.
- Randomized trials, the most rigorous and reliable type of study design, have shown that caffeine consumption in coffee is associated with a lower risk of atrial fibrillation but also a higher risk of premature ventricular contractions.
- Adding sugar, flavored syrups, milk and/or cream to coffee likely reduces its potential health benefits, and more research is needed to understand the impact of these additives.
- Higher caffeine intake, such as levels found in energy drinks including energy shots, was associated with cardiovascular harm, such as increased risk of high blood pressure and irregular heart rhythm. Energy drink shots may contain 40-69 mg of caffeine per fluid ounce, 3-4 times more caffeine than regular caffeinated coffee.
How does caffeine affect the body?
Caffeine consumed in coffee is metabolized by the liver and generally reaches peak concentration for most people within an hour. However, how quickly individuals process caffeine depends on their genetics, metabolism, age and past caffeine use. When more caffeinated coffee is consumed regularly, some people may develop a tolerance to higher levels of caffeine. Other people may feel stronger effects from the same amount of caffeine. Short-term effects of caffeine may include temporary increases in blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar and alertness. Some people may experience heart palpitations and/or sleep disruption.
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Polishing his star at Toronto newspapers
Author of the article: Susanna McLeod, Published Jul 23, 2026 • 4 minute read
Destiny was calling. To respond, the young man believed hands-on learning was superior to traditional education. First tackling newspaper writing when he was a teenager in Missouri, Ernest Hemingway arrived in Toronto in 1920. He sharpened his skills in storytelling and writing at the Toronto Star Weekly and Toronto Daily Star. Travelling widely, the reporter wrote about people and places for his column, and those instances would later appear as facets in his renowned fiction novels.
Living in Oak Park, a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Illinois, physician Dr. Clarence Hemingway and opera singer/musician Grace Hall Hemingway were parents to six children. Ernest Miller Hemingway was their second child, born on July 21, 1899 into a household bubbling with education, music and the love of outdoors. The family spent summers at their cottage at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and Hemingway’s father inspired his interests in fishing and hunting.
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“Hemingway always had ambitions to become a fiction writer,” said Toronto Public Library Blog (TPL) in “Ernest Hemingway’s Toronto Ties.” Encouraged by family to attend university, the teenager disagreed. “He believed the best way to learn the craft was by writing for newspapers,” just as several of his favourite literary writers did. Beginning with an eight-month apprenticeship in 1917 at Missouri’s Kansas City Star, Hemingway learned “how to mine the facts of a story and describe them simply and directly using the paper’s style sheet.” (The Kansas paper did not print his by-line.)
Interrupting his career path, Hemingway tried to enlist for duty during WWI, but poor eyesight prevented his plan. Instead, in early 1918, he joined the American Red Cross as ambulance driver and canteen worker. The 18-year-old served in Italy, at Fossalta di Piave, “handing out coffee, chocolate, cigarettes and postcards to Italian soldiers in the trench,” wrote Steve Paul in “Young Mr. Hemingway in Italy” (The National WWI Museum and Memorial). While he was in the field on July 8, a mortar shell exploded nearby.
Severely wounded by over 200 metal shards from the blast, Hemingway “ended up spending most of the rest of the war in the American Red Cross hospital in Milan,” stated Paul. His lengthy hospital stay—and romance with an older nurse—became part of his second novel, A Farewell to Arms (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929).
While at Walloon Lake in the summer of 1920, Hemingway was introduced to management of Toronto Daily Star. He was given the opportunity to write freelance articles for the paper’s weekend publication, Toronto Star Weekly. “Taking a Chance for a Free Shave” was published on March 6, 1920, including Hemingway’s first by-line, a moment of great pleasure for every writer.
Composing in his individual style, Hemingway flourished at Toronto. “His features were closer to fiction than hard news,” said TPL, and “he often wrote about sports, a theme that would appear in his novels.”
During Hemingway’s first days at the newspaper office, journalists discounted the man standing before them. Reporter Greg Clark considered the fresh-faced writer a “hanger-on.” Clark later wrote in his column that he told others, “Don’t get too chummy with this kid. He’ll stick you for ten bucks and that’ll be the end of him,” said William Burrill in The Toronto Years 1920-1924 (Doubleday Canada Limited, 1994). Little did Clark know that the awkward fledgling writer’s star would skyrocket.
Warming up to the staff and their office tales, Hemingway began telling stories of his own. His brilliant talent shone through. The Star Weekly’s editor, J.H. Cranston, “immediately found Hemingway to be a fascinating and credible storyteller,” Burrill stated. The editor hired Hemingway on a test basis, dependent on how well his story was written. If good, the writer would receive the standard rate of “half a cent per word.” Hemingway grabbed the opportunity, submitting absorbing columns.
In February 1921, Hemingway was offered the foreign correspondent’s job for Toronto Daily Star. Accepting the offer, he and his bride, Hadley, moved to Paris, France. (The couple were married for five years; he later married three more women.) Sending columns to the Toronto newspaper editor, Hemingway wrote about Spanish bullfights (which he enjoyed), horse racing, politics, war, and European culture.
Returning to Toronto in mid-1923, the Hemingways were about to be new parents. They wanted their child to be born where the hospitals “had an excellent reputation for caring for newborns and their mothers,” noted TPL. Now working at the daily paper, Hemingway earned a livable income. Their first son, “Jack” was born on October 10, 1923.
Staying in a hotel for several weeks, the Hemingways located a tiny apartment at Cedarvale Mansions at 1599 Bathurst Street, bordering a tree-lined ravine. The building’s impressive name did not match the apartments inside. The couple’s apartment “was nothing more than a small rectangular room with a Murphy bed and a balcony,” said Burrill. The size did not stop Hemingway from purchasing booze and inviting friends in to overindulge. Between his demanding post at the newspaper and small apartment, Hemingway was often depressed and found novel-writing troublesome.
On January 1, 1924, Hemingway prepared to leave Toronto to begin his fiction career in Europe. Toronto Star Weekly writer Greg Clark thought “he was a fool to give up the chance to write features for the hottest paper in Canada,” noted Burrill. Hemingway’s final article was published January 19, 1924 in Toronto Star Weekly, titled “The Freiburg Fedora: Must Wear Hats Like Other Folks If You Live in Toronto.”
Developing a magnificent literary career, Hemingway was awarded the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His most famous book was The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Among many familiar gripping works are For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Sun Also Rises (1926). However, the prolific author struggled with alcohol and depression. On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide at his Ketchum, Idaho home. The shining star had dimmed.
Commemorating Hemingway’s time in Canada, the Toronto Historical Board installed a plaque in 1985 at the author’s Bathurst Street apartment building. 998 words
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