SOBRIETY IN THE CITY is your guide to substance-free adventures and events in cities across the United States. We’re bringing you hidden gems, local hangouts, art exhibits, unique attractions and pop-up events, limited shows, and tours. Being fully present allows us to enjoy life to the fullest. But we’re still taking it all in, just one day at a time.
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We’re curating lots of ideas and content on how to live your best sober lifestyle in cities across the USA. Make sure to check out these cities where we have Sober Curators actively keeping us up to date with the latest events and hot spots to check out.
DALLAS – MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL – SEATTLE – NYC
If you have the perfect sober city movement agenda, reach out to us! We would love to share your ideas with our community. DM us on social media or email us directly at thesobercurator@gmail.com.
Thinking about bigger travel plans than just a day or two in a city? WHAT A TRIP brings you sober travel tips and agendas galore.
What happens after someone gets sober and starts rebuilding an actual life? Teetotal Initiative co-founder Scott Page shares how more than 100 Pittsburgh-area events have created alcohol-free spaces for friendship, creativity, curiosity and belonging.
Camp Sober Fest took adult summer camp and made it sober: high ropes, archery, campfire meetings, and a mandatory-in-spirit talent show. After wrapping its August session at Sequoia Lake, the crew heads to Trinity, Texas for sober spring break, March 17 to 21, 2027. All-inclusive for $525.
That book in your head isn’t writing itself. Tawny Lara’s fall writing room runs Tuesdays and Thursdays, September 22 through November 19, with guided prompts, focused writing time, and a community of writers who get it.
Dopey Nation is turning recovery into a game show. On October 3, DopeyCon takes over NYC’s SVA Theatre with Katz’s pastrami, a stacked sober celebrity lineup including Hank Azaria and Carl Radke, and a shot at being pulled into the show yourself. Costumes strongly encouraged.
Lane Kennedy highlights a shift for Gen X: trading late-night outings for early evening gatherings. With a focus on health and longevity, alcohol-free nights are becoming the trend. 🕺💜 How about a dance party that starts at 7:30 PM? Sounds perfect! 🌟
Looking for sober fun in Fort Wayne, Indiana? Senior Sober Curator Contributor Teresa Bergen shares 10 alcohol-free ways to explore the city, including riverfront biking, colorful street art, a botanical garden, farmers markets, a cat café and some seriously good mocktails.
Can you travel through Scotland and Ireland sober without feeling like you’re missing the experience? Sober Curator Contributor Megan Wright explores pubs, castles, cliffs and plenty of alcohol-free options—including Guinness 0.0—during an 11-day trip through two cultures famously intertwined with drinking.
She has a genuinely useful amount of specific NA drink content in here, including Guinness 0.0, ciders, lagers and alcohol-free spirits across Scotland and Ireland
Packing a concert bag with purpose! Sober Curator Contributor + Swift Steps® Founder Julianne Griffin shares how Narcan & friendship bracelets are her essentials for making a difference. 🎶💜
Ronnie Marmo has never had a legal drink. On September 3 he turns 36 years sober, and that same night Bill W. and Dr. Bob opens in Skokie with Ronnie playing Bill. He carried the script around for a decade before he dared to stage it. We talked treasurer resentments, sitting at Bill Wilson’s desk, and why I was wrong about Jamie Lee Curtis.
Getting sober can mean rebuilding your social life from the ground up. Anne Marie Cribbin explores the rise of “third places” — coffee shops, run clubs, bookstores, gardens and other community spaces — and why belonging, not alcohol, may be what we were searching for all along.
Dallas is a sprawling city, and many of its best sober-friendly attractions aren’t clustered downtown. From Richardson’s alcohol-free Beyond the Bar to White Rock Lake and the Dallas Arboretum, having your own wheels can give sober travelers more freedom to explore — and an easy exit when the vibe isn’t right.
Sober travel is the upgrade, not the consolation prize. Episode 6 has the airport hacks, the costume trips, and your invite to Cover Story, our first-ever retreat in Scottsdale.
Tiffany Jenkins flew across the country to accept the IOCDF’s 2026 Illumination Award and forgot to pack her clothes. The Sober Curator was at OCD Con 2026 in Seattle for all of it: the movie question everyone wants answered, worry scripts and hot dogs, the psych ward story she tells with zero filter, and a mother from Georgia turning unimaginable loss into a movement at the intersection of OCD and addiction.
The HER: Heal. Empower. Recover. podcast launches Aug. 2 at Inlet Theatre in Port Moody with comedy, a podcasting panel, a live recording and alcohol-free drinks. The evening will also raise funds for SHE RECOVERS and support its global recovery community.
Out of 8 billion people, sometimes you find the ones who change everything. Kim Bellas writes about her friendship with Eve Goldberg, the founder of BigVision NYC, who answered every parent’s greatest heartbreak by building a home where young adults in recovery find music, comedy nights, basketball, belonging and each other.
Eight years alcohol-free, Megan Swan treated the Calgary Stampede like a reporting assignment: corporate open bars, a Michelin Key rooftop, the Badlands rave tent, tech mixers and the chuckwagon races, ordering zero-proof at every stop. The verdict: sober Stampede has arrived, the math favors the non-drinkers, and watch that checkout screen before you tip 36% without noticing.
A Machine Gun Kelly concert in Scranton reminded Julianne why sober community must be built with intention, compassion, and an open door for anyone curious enough to come.
A wine brand just became the official sponsor of a sober dance tour, and that tells you everything about where this culture is headed. Giesen 0% is pouring at Daybreaker’s “Let’s Be Friends” stops all summer, and we’ve got every city on the calendar.
Ashley McBryde’s NA-forward Redemption Bar is crossing the border this July with its first-ever Canadian pop-up at Cavendish Beach Music Festival in Prince Edward Island. For anyone who has ever loved live music and dreaded the drinking culture surrounding it, this one is for you.
Senior Sober Curator travel contributor Teresa Bergen visits Shipshewana, Indiana, a rare dry town in the heart of Amish country. From horse-drawn buggies and the Menno-Hof museum to Amish auctions, bulk food stores, musical theater, flea markets, and kayaking the Pigeon River, Shipshewana offers a peaceful, alcohol-free travel experience rooted in simplicity, curiosity, and small-town charm.
Kim Bellas of Sober Is the New Cool reflects on the annual White Party in New York City, where more than 40 women from Canada and the United States gathered for an evening of sober connection, friendship, wellness, and a sense of belonging. At the heart of the night was the White Heart Initiative and its simple but powerful message: “I’m glad you exist. The world is a better place because you’re in it.”
Giesen 0% is bringing non-alcoholic wine spritzes to Pride House LA/West Hollywood’s World Cup kickoff weekend, celebrating Pride Month, LGBTQ+ athletes, and mindful drinking in one major cultural moment.
Teresa Bergen takes readers on an alcohol-free trip through Pensacola, Florida, from shore diving and dolphin tours to parks, historic forts, beach walks, vegan dining, cat cafés, and sober-friendly surprises. Even with its beach-town party energy, Pensacola offers plenty for nondrinkers who prefer their fun in, on, or under the water.
Twenty years. One Diet Coke. One very glittery gift bag. The AB That’s Me Birthday Kit is live at Sober AF Bottle Shop in Tacoma — and yes, they ship.
Kindred Spirits in downtown Richland, Washington, is more than a nonalcoholic bar and bottle shop. Founded by Marlys and Chuck Aspinwall after reassessing their relationship with alcohol, the Tri-Cities shop now offers NA spirits, wines, botanicals, sober events, book clubs, paint-and-sip nights, and a welcoming space for alcohol-free community.
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