Northwest LoveFest: Feel the Love August 27 and 28!

August 22, 2011
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Northwest LoveFest is coming up fast! This festival, based in our hometown of Seattle (in our home neighborhood of Fremont, even!), is right in tune with what we’re all about: healthy, sustainable communities, and a positive effect on humanity. So of course, we’re stoked to be ticketing for this festival. LoveFest has only grown in the past year, and it looks like it’s going to be an even bigger and better festival. And it’s only in year two!

LoveFest was founded in 2010 as an environmentally responsible celebration of creativity and social service. In tune with their philosophy that music festivals should have a positive effect on humanity and the environment, all carbon waste from the festival itself and all attendees will be offset in partnership with TerraPass. Other environmentally-friendly attributes of the festival include free water to all attendees who bring their own cup or bottle and even a free bike valet on-site!
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SF Improv Fest: Propelling Improv Into the Mainstream

August 12, 2011
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Are you a fan of Saturday Night Live? Or, for that matter, any of its offshoots, like 30 Rock or Parks and Recreation? This programming is made possible by a specific secret — and increasingly, not-so-secret — weapon of comedy: Improv.

Yes, improv made this exchange between Tim Meadows and Christopher Walken possible.

Speaking of Tim Meadows, he’ll be headlining the San Francisco Improv Festival with his improv trio Uncle’s Brother! Also leading this two-week Bay Area improv takeover are flash mob pioneers Improv Everywhere, who you might remember from hilarious stunts like this one:
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A Taste of Love Gives You a Sample of Northwest LoveFest

July 22, 2011
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Some of you may remember last year’s Northwest LoveFest, a music and arts festival that took place along the ship canal in Fremont. It was a wild success, and festival organizers are bringing Northwest LoveFest back for a second year. To build hype, plus raise funds to help this year’s festival be the best it can be, Nectar Lounge is hosting A Taste of Love this Wednesday.

Entertainment includes a Northwest LoveFest all-star jam with R.U. Donne featuring members of EQlateral, plus live hip-hop from DJ Gumbeaux and DJ Sea opening. Live art will be going on throughout the night, plus dancing and drink specials!

If that’s not enough for you, LoveFest will be raffling some fantastic prizes, the crown jewel being two round-trip tickets to anywhere event sponsor Alaska Airlines goes.
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Featured Non-Profit: Lights, Camera, Help

July 12, 2011
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Here at Brown Paper Tickets, we are always looking for ways to make the world a better place. From our charity donation program, to giving each employee 40 hours a year of time-on to go help others outside of the office, we are delighted when we see an organization within our ticketing community working on bettering the world.

Meet: Lights. Camera. Help., a nonprofit organization and producers of the world’s first film festival dedicated entirely to nonprofit and cause-driven films. LCH’s goal is to help other nonprofit and cause-driven organizations use film to tell their stories. LCH says, “We do this through our education and volunteer match programs, screenings and an annual film festival.”
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Dance Your Cash Off for 826 Seattle

June 21, 2011
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At first glance, the Greenwood Space Supply Company just looks like a lowly purveyor of space travel-related goods. But it has a little secret: it’s part of 826 Seattle. All their proceeds go to their programs, which include drop-in after school tutoring, field trips, in-school programs and writing workshops for youth ages six to 18, all free to public school students. They’ve also published 14 anthologies of student writing, giving 264 talented kids a chance to be a published author.

Founded by local author and teacher Teri Hein, 826 Seattle was originally founded as Studio 26. In 2005, Studio 26 was invited to become a chapter of 826 National, an organization co-founded by author, philanthropist and McSweeney’s founder Dave Eggers that has a similar mission: helping youth with their writing.

Since their inception, 826 Seattle has helped over 10,000 students with 2,000 volunteers giving over 40,000 hours. They helped 2,481 students in the 2010-2011 school year alone, all thanks to strong community support.
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Featured Non-Profit: The Furry 5K in Seattle

June 8, 2011
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Ever done a 5k walk or run? Well, if you haven’t, you’ve definitely heard of them. Usually, they’re to raise awareness and funds to cure cancer, diabetes or other types of illnesses and are geared towards humans and the difficulties we face.

But, what about our furry friends? Did you know that over 5 to 7 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year? Who is out there speaking up and raising awareness for them?

I’ll tell you who, The Furry 5k. The Furry 5k is an event where you can run, walk, sprint or jump with your best animal friend and this Sunday, June 12th at 10:00am in Seward Park, Seattle, WA., the Seattle Humane Society is putting together a 5k race to give a voice to the millions of animals in shelters and to raise money for the shelter.
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We Won A Seattle Weekly Web Award

June 6, 2011
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We are proud to announce that our mobile app was selected as a 2011 Seattle Weekly web award winner, sharing the music category right alongside local legends KEXP. Seattle is where our headquarters are, and we’ve always loved the city and its music scene, and we are honored to be a part of it.

Being constantly in motion is common for both event producers and serial showgoers, so we’ve strived to make our services able to accommodate those lifestyles. In addition to our web-based mobile interfaces, including mobile ticketing and transfer-to-a-friend technology, we released our first bona fide app back in March. The Brown Paper Tickets Scanner, available for both iPhone and Android, turns your phone into a ticket scanner for a compact, low-cost alternative to other scanning setups. More details on the app’s features and instructions are available in this PDF.

Of course, we would be remiss not to mention our amazing friends Willow Tree Apps who developed our mobile scanner — this is as much their award as it is ours. Without them we wouldn’t be sharing a stage with great local apps like OneBusAway.

Thanks for the love, Seattle! And congrats to all the winners.

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Brown Paper Tickets Employees Jump the Border for Great Cause

May 27, 2011
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Armed with our passports, a stack of tickets and a video camera, Call Center manager Renee and I trekked up to Canada in her VW Bug to deliver a ticket order for a soccer team with an amazing cause.

Part of the Vancouver Street Soccer League, Portland FC is the Portland Hotel Society‘s soccer team, comprised of individuals who are homeless, were recently homeless or are at risk for being homeless. They’re raising money to send some of their teammates to the Homeless World Cup, an annual event where similar teams come together, compete and hang out. We made this short film about our trip up there and spoke to a coach and some team members, some of which were at last year’s Homeless World Cup in Brazil.
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Tonight! Neil Hamburger in San Francisco

May 5, 2011
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Neil Hamburger is dry, dark, depressing and miserable, but in the best way possible. A character played by comedian Gregg Turkington, Neil has appeared in such bizarro comedy staples as Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! and Tom Green’s House Tonight, and has toured with not only Tim and Eric, but comedy-rock duo Tenacious D.

The Hamburger persona is old and haggard, constantly hacking and wheezing while telling taboo anti-jokes about celebrities and a fictional ex-wife. He’s also notorious for raging against hecklers in the audience, with everything from name-calling to throwing his drink (which he often spits in) in their faces (if you are not easily offended, a YouTube search for “Neil Hamburger Heckler” will produce a plethora of examples).
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Zola Jesus Hits Portland This Thursday!

May 4, 2011
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Opera student-turned-noise musician, Nika Roza Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, is coming up fast. Starting out alongside the likes of TV Ghost and Leper Print on small noise label Die Stasi and sharing labelmates like Blank Dogs and Moon Duo on Sacred Bones Records, Zola Jesus has her roots amongst well-respected modern noise. But from these smaller scenes, she quickly rose to crossover prominence while touring with the likes of Xiu Xiu, Fever Ray and The xx, at just barely 22.

Musically, her diverse influences clearly impact the way people categorize her as being all across the board: from lo-fi goth to noise to various _____waves (darkwave, crimson wave, etc). Lush, droney instrumentals are cut with her strong, sturdy vocals, with only a slight echo to blend the two–as if Kate Bush or Souxsie Sioux made a guest appearance on a Throbbing Gristle record.
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