One Small Step For Ticket Brokers – One Baby Step For Our Wallets.

A whole day of discounted fees…go crazy, America…

Live Nation Launches “No Service Fee Wednesdays”

June 1, 2009 Live Nation is cutting some ticket fees and surcharges on Wednesdays throughout the summer in order to bolster ticket sales in a tough economy. The “No Service Fee Wednesdays” 24-hour sale will kick off June 3 at 12:01 a.m., offering tickets with no service fees on any Live Nation-ticketed amphitheater show, only at LiveNation.com. The deal will be ongoing on Wednesdays throughout the summer, but for now it’s good only on the lawn seats. Fans can expect to save around $9 to $12 per ticket. The promotion will cover hundreds of concerts at 43 venues around the country, and about 5 million tickets will be available in the sale. “Summer concerts are a great escape in these tough times,” said Live Nation President and CEO Michael Rapino. “Starting this Wednesday, Live Nation and the world’s top artists are making it less expensive for fans to see their favorite bands by waiving service fees on over five million tickets at www.LiveNation.com. We wanted to do something that had never been done before and ‘No Service Fee Wednesdays’ provide incredible value to millions of music fans to attend the hottest concerts this summer.” Artists playing at the 43 venues covered by the promotion include Aerosmith, Coldplay, Phish, Nickelback, No Doubt, Creed and Kid Rock. Despite the recession, Live Nation said in May that ticket sales for summer concerts are actually ahead of last year’s pace. However, there’s plenty of room for improvement: Live Nation says that about 40 percent of all concert seats go unsold.

Fifteen Will Get You Twenty – Space 15 Twenty Caters To Young Hipsters With Disposable Cash

As Hollywood leaves behind the years of dingy, depressed streets, tourist trap souvenir shops and head shops, it ushers in a shiny, plasticine veneer covering everything from revolving nightclubs which go out within a year, late night eateries and ‘museums’ tributing anything from show biz to lingerie…but something is missing.

Where can a hipster go to do some pre clubbing shopping? Where can they congregate to gossip about the ‘Cahuenga Boulevard boogie’?

The answer is Space 15 Twenty.

Nestled at the edge of Cahuenga between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard, 15 Twenty is a hipster heaven. Currently the open air mall boasts an Urban Outfitters for the retro, ironic kids…

Urban Outfitters

…an A Life for the ballers, complete with a giant urinal…

piss off!

…What Comes Around Vintage for the posh spice kids who can spend a couple k on vintage couture…

What Comes Around Costs More The 2nd Time Around

…an art gallery for the erudite wine drinkers…

…an architect bookstore for the brainiac scenesters and a snack bar serving up ironic junk food one could find at any music festival, like pop corn, Izze and beer.

At the opening part last week, the Space had i Tunes darlings Chairlift play their warbling indie rock for a jaded crowd. Although a good smattering of people watched excitedly, for many it was more of an obstacle to their air kissing, gossiping and hair flipping.

NY indie rockers Chairlift play at 15 Twenty

While I must admit I did drool over some of the choice finds at What Comes Around, a vintage gaultier coat, several Alaia dresses and a slew of YSL and DVF…

absolutely fabulous

And I did quite like the high tech goth of Urban Outfitter’s annex store for Samantha Pleet…

Samantha Who?

I must admit that 15 Twenty did underwhelm.

gangsta garanimal

Perhaps it’s because the place is designed to capture the attention of kids who scoff at the faux punk of the commercial mall rat swathed in Hot Topic, but think nothing of conforming to the electro-nerd costume of American Apparel. Perhaps it was the jaded “been there, done that, bought the $500 dollar t shirt’ crowd. Or perhaps it’s just stores that cater to disaffected youth in a time when everyone SHOULD be affected by the monumentus current events, but something about this space left me cold…perhaps it was the crisp night air on a cold, LA, 65 degree night.

Hopefully things will warm up soon.