What's Happening in Pompano Beach This Weekend, November 6-8

Friday night: Old Town Untapped returns for First Friday

The weekend opens with the free First Friday block party. Old Town Untapped runs Friday, November 6 from 6:00 to 10:00 PM at NE 1st Street and N Flagler Avenue in the Old Town arts district, with November's headliner the Shane Duncan Band, food trucks, craft beer, and docent-led art tours at Bailey Contemporary Arts at 8:00 PM. It is the city's free monthly event, so the whole stretch between the galleries and the street is the evening's center of gravity.

Also Friday: Gutenberg! The Musical! opens, and an Eagles tribute at Galuppi's

The Pompano Players open their South Florida premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical! on Friday, November 6 at 7:00 PM at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, 50 W Atlantic Boulevard, with tickets around $55 to $65 through the city's Live Theater and Concerts season. The run continues through November 15.

The club option is The Long Run, an Eagles tribute, on Galuppi's Main Stage at 1103 N Federal Highway Friday at 7:30 PM, $10 general admission, with Gregg B on the patio stage for a quieter seat. Galuppi's live music calendar carries the full weekend.

Editorial illustration of hundreds of glowing drones forming a wide formation over the Atlantic at dusk, a wooden pier silhouette in the foreground — Editorial illustration About 500 drones over the ocean, Saturday night at the pier

Saturday night: the Drone Show Extravaganza, fifth year, free

Saturday belongs to the beachfront. The Drone Show Extravaganza returns November 7 for its fifth year at the Fisher Family Pier, 222 N Pompano Beach Boulevard, with festivities from 5:30 to 9:00 PM and about 500 drones lighting the sky over the ocean around 7:00 PM, themed patriotic and nautical for Veterans Day weekend. A DJ and a Junior's Entertainment Group party band play through the evening. The show is free and family-friendly, viewing happens from the beach on the south side of the pier, and free shuttles run from Pompano Community Park. Note the logistics: the pier closes at 10:00 PM Friday for drone staging and reopens at 7:00 AM Sunday.

Saturday night, closer to the show: a rooftop viewing party at Pier 6

For a raised view of the display, Pier 6 Rooftop at 200 N Ocean Boulevard in the Fishing Village hosts its Drone Show Viewing Party the same evening. The rooftop opens at 3:00 PM, the party starts at 5:00 PM, and the show flies at 7:00 PM; the $20 ticket includes one complimentary drink, per the Pier 6 and Eventbrite listings. It sells the same thing the beach gives away for free, but with a bar and a table.

Also Saturday: Starlight Jam at the Palm Aire Gazebo, and Gutenberg! twice

Two more Saturday options, and one of them is right here in the neighborhood. Starlight Jam Sessions plays the Palm Aire Gazebo at 623 Oaks Drive Saturday at 6:00 PM, the free first-Saturday series with food trucks, a short walk or drive from 2901 S Palm Aire Drive #610. Gutenberg! The Musical! runs twice at the Cultural Center Saturday, 2:00 and 7:00 PM. And Galuppi's books Wide Awake, a U2 tribute, on the Main Stage at 7:30 PM, $10 general admission, with Nosh and Gress on the acoustic stage.

Sunday: a Motown matinee, a Neil Young tribute, and Soulful Sundays

Sunday is the mellow day. Gutenberg! The Musical! plays a 2:00 PM matinee at the Cultural Center. Galuppi's runs Marvels of Motown, a nine-piece horn band, at $49.95 per person with an optional three-course dinner, plus Crazy Horses and The Leo Rock Band, a Neil Young tribute, with no entry fee. And Ali Cultural Arts Center at 353 Dr. MLK Jr. Boulevard starts its Soulful Sundays gospel and soul music series Sunday, November 8 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, with $15 tickets sold online only.

Editorial illustration of a South Florida redevelopment district at golden hour with tower cranes, mid-rise buildings, and a palm-lined boulevard — Editorial illustration The Pomp, now building a leaner Live! district

The Pomp this week: new renderings, a slimmer Live! district

The Pomp's news this week is a design revision with real consequences. On October 30, 2026, new renderings were posted ahead of a scheduled design review showing the Live! at The Pomp entertainment district scaled back again: the plan is now four structures, three commercial buildings plus parking, with parking cut from 774 spaces to about 170 and the planned pickleball courts dropped. The revised district sits on a roughly 4.57-acre footprint within the wider 221.65-acre master plan. The design review outcome had not been published as of this writing, so the honest statement is: the district is getting smaller on paper before it gets built, and the anchor experiences that are open, Topgolf and Harrah's, are still the ones doing the work. Sourced to Hoodline, October 30, 2026.

The rest of the standing picture, unchanged or updated this week:

Leasing: Lumio Pompano Beach, the 423-unit apartment community at The Pomp, is open and actively leasing, with studios to three-bedrooms from about 641 to 1,791 square feet and a live leasing office, per the developer's project pages.
Open: Topgolf Pompano Beach (400 Lucky Lane) and Harrah's Pompano Beach casino remain the operating anchors on the site.
Industrial phase: the first four buildings at The Pomp, about 620,700 square feet from Rockpoint and Frampton, opened in May 2026.
Housing: the Lennar-affiliated Millrose plan for 344 condos and 82 townhomes moved ahead this fall with a temporary sales-center application at 777 Isle of Capri Circle; the zoning board's vote had not been confirmed in public reporting as of this writing.
In the courts: the proposed Costco remains tied up in litigation after the Planning and Zoning Board's 4-3 rejection in July 2026.
The master plan: roughly 4,000 residential units, about 1.3 million square feet of retail and entertainment, about 1.4 million square feet of office, and two hotels, built out in phases.

That is the honest picture: the district is opening in pieces, and this week the pieces changed shape on paper. Nothing here is a forecast.

Save the dates: what is coming up

A few verified anchors for the weeks ahead. The Green Market at the Cultural Center opens its season Saturday, November 14 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, running the second and fourth Saturdays through April, with free lawn yoga at 9:00 AM and kids' crafts from 10:00 AM to noon. Gutenberg! The Musical! continues at the Cultural Center through November 15. Veterans Day itself is Wednesday, November 11. And the galleries stay open through the weekend: Bailey Contemporary Arts opens "We are pressed into lines" on Friday, November 6, running through November 27, with "Into Neverland" on view through December 17, and Ali Cultural Arts Center's "Everything Esther," honoring the actress Esther Rolle, opened November 5 and runs through February 23, 2027.

The bottom line this weekend.

Veterans Day weekend in Pompano belongs to the beach and the sky: Old Town Untapped Friday, about 500 drones over the pier Saturday night with a rooftop viewing party at Pier 6 for a closer seat, and Starlight Jam at the Palm Aire Gazebo for the local crowd. Sunday is matinees, Motown, and Soulful Sundays. And The Pomp keeps refining its plan across the street, this week with a slimmer Live! district on the drawing board. For the straight version of any of it, or a tour of the unit with the lake-and-golf view: Call or Text Ryan, 561-915-8590. Co-listed with Helen Katz, Coldwell Banker Realty.

Sources

Ryan Parker · Realtor, Coldwell Banker Realty

Sales Associate · SL3571861 · Florida. Co-listed with Helen Katz. 2026-11-03 · Event dates, times, and availability change; confirm the live sources before you go. This roundup updates weekly.

What's happening in Pompano Beach this weekend, November 6-8.