by MacKenzie Geidt, Sunset assistant travel editor
Recessions are intensely depressing. I know during these gloomy times I feel the need more than ever to escape in books, magazines, movies, theater, and just plain going out. But can you really justify spending precious money on tickets in a time like this? My answer is definitively YES! For one very particular reason:
GOLDSTAR.COM is my new best friend. Let me introduce you:
Wish you could afford to see that new musical in town? LA Lakers tickets too expensive? Need a cheap and creative idea for date night? Sign up for Goldstar. They send you listings of all their half-price and discount shows in some of the coolest towns in the West: San Francisco, LA, Las Vegas, and San Diego.
The listing range is amazing....it's not just theater....it's comedy, sports events, concerts, even things like wine tastings and rodeos (!). For example, last week I got discount tickets to a live radio taping of "The Sound of Young America Live" at the San Francisco Sketch Fest for $10! (and I didn't even know that event was happening until I got the email from Goldstar...it also helps me stay on top of what's in town)
THIS weekend I'm heading down to LA, so of course I checked Goldstar to see what looks fun, entertaining, and inexpensive down there. Now I have tickets to Jane Austen Unscripted at Theater Asylum in Santa Monica....believe it or not, it's Jane Austen improv! I can't think of anything more amazing! Tickets on Goldtar are $10 versus $25. I wouldn't have known about this unless I'd seen it on Goldstar, AND I save $15 on tickets. Double bonus. After all, it is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone (not necessarily in posession of a good fortune) must be in want of good cheap fun now and again....
