Monthly Archives: October 2009

The Week in TicketCity Search – October 30th

Make-Up Taylor Swift Pic For Last Week

A slightly premature Happy Halloween to all.  The shakeups continue, though Taylor Swift retains her commanding lead at #1, Miley Cyrus exits the countdown completely for the first time in a long time. Replaced by? Bon Jovi. The veteran pop rockers have a new album, The Circle, releasing in [...]

How often has BCS Championship matched top teams?

The BCS Championship started in 1998 as a way to matchup the #1 and #2 team in a one-game National Championship Game.  Since that first game in 1998 between Tennessee and Florida State, the BCS Championship Game has matched the #1 and #2 teams in the AP rankings just eight times.  In those eight matchups, [...]

TicketCity’s 25 Hottest College Football Games for The Week of October 26th

Top 25 College Football Games for Week 11
Each week TicketCity releases a list of the top 25 hottest games of the 2009 regular college football season based on average ticket price.  The list is accumulated by compiling a majority of the available tickets on the secondary market throughout the entire country.  The secondary [...]

2009 World Series Set

After Saturday’s rain cancellation, ALCS Game 6 moved to Sunday and the Yankees subsequently moved into the World Series after ending the Angels’ run. They will meet returning champs the Phillies, who took out the Dodgers in the NLCS. The prospect of a “freeway series” out in LA was not to be.
There’s less [...]

The Week in TicketCity Search – October 23rd

I could have gone with
a Taylor Swift photo, but how
boring would that have been?

Big changes this week. Taylor Swift, who hasn’t been absent the countdown for some time, rises to the very top as demand for her Fearless Tour is bigger now than ever before. The tour was recently extended to run through the middle [...]

2009 World Series schedule

The Philadelphia Phillies have clinched a spot in the 2009 World Series and the New York Yankees are up 3-2 on the Los Angeles Angels for the AL spot.  So it’s time to set the schedule for the ‘09 Fall Classic.
2009 World Series schedule:
Game 1 – Phillies at Yankees/Angels – Wed, Oct 28th
Game 2 – [...]

Not Quite Happily Ever After

3 Additional Data Points for January Unemployment Figures

At least the “ever” part. Shrek the Musical is closing. The final performance at the Broadway Theatre will be January 3rd, 2010. The show will have run for 441 performances by the time it closes. Based on the same children’s book by William Steig as the successful [...]

50 and a Half Stilts

In a follow-up to a previous post, because it’s something to post, the touring production of 101 Dalmatians: The Musical opened in Minnesota at Minneapolis’ Orpheum theatre last Wednesday night. One unique aspect of the production, namely that the human characters would be “larger than life” was revealed to be… stilts. Yes, the performers in [...]

TicketCity’s 25 Hottest College Football Games for The Week of October 19th

Top 25 College Football Games for Week 10
Each week TicketCity releases a list of the top 25 hottest games of the 2009 regular college football season based on average ticket price.  The list is accumulated by compiling a majority of the available tickets on the secondary market throughout the entire country.  The secondary [...]

Garth Brooks In Vegas, Out of Retirement

The rumors have swirled, but today it was confirmed: Garth Brooks is back.  Arguably one of the most award-winning country artists, Garth makes a return to performing after more than eight years in retirement.  Brooks will start an ongoing show at the Encore Theatre at the Wynn in Las Vegas.  Why come out of retirement after nine years?  Apparently because Steve [...]