Thrillcall, offering listings of live events and select daily deals on local entertainment, has just announced a new agreement with tech company ThingLink to offer rich media tags to Thrillcall’s clients.

Event promoters, artists, and venues can now embed Thrillcall’s rich media tags into their web images to make ticket purchases easier for fans.

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California Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez is facing a public relations pickle following revelations that he resold 25 wristbands for the always popular Coachella Music Festival.

While Coachella’s organizational parent company Goldenvoice outlines on the Coachella website that the festival does not “tolerate scalping of any kind at all,” those same rules apparently do not apply to local California politicians. Pérez’s campaign spokesman Josh Pulliam told The Desert Sun newspaper that Goldenvoice “specifically approved the campaign purchasing tickets for a campaign fundraiser.”

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While the Western Conference Finals pits a pair of warm weather foes (the Los Angeles Kings and Phoenix Coyotes) who have combined for one trip to the Stanley Cup and are likely unfamiliar to casual hockey fans, the Eastern Conference Finals features an East Coast rivalry that is almost sure to be fondly recalled by even people who normally don’t pay attention to hockey.

The top-seeded New York Rangers and sixth-seeded New Jersey Devils, whose home arenas are separated by just nine miles and the Hudson River, are playing each other in the conference finals for the first time since their epic 1994 series, which the Rangers won in seven games. The Rangers won Game One of this seven-game series, 3-0, Monday, May 14 at Madison Square Garden. Game Two is scheduled for tonight, May 16, before the series shifts to New Jersey’s Prudential Center for Games Three and Four Saturday, May 19 and Monday, May 21.

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The world of mixed martial arts is invading Canada on Saturday, July 21 as the Ultimate Fighting Championship debuts in Calgary at Scotiabank Saddledome. UFC 149 showdown is billed as one of the most anticipated sports tickets sales in UFC history and was expected to be a sellout event long before tickets went on sale. Previous UFC events in Canada have drawn an overwhelming interest from fans.

According to The Montreal Gazette UFC director of Canadian operations Tom Wright said “I think it’s going to be a great event. One of the great things about coming to a city like Calgary for the first time, is a lot of people will have the chance to experience this for the first time. ” Wright also noted that the unique shape of the Saddledome has created a very interesting seating situation as the “saddle shape” of the venue cut seating capacity from 20,000 to an estimated 19,000 seats.

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