Are you looking for cheap Lakers tickets? Buying them in the aftermarket can be very expensive, especially through brokers. There are other options.
If the event is sold out by the time you get to the box office, and you want to attend a game, you will need to consider alternate options. Here are the five best ways to go to Laker games without spending too much money:
(1) Go to weeknight games. There is more competition amongst fans for weekend games. You will find better prices for weeknight games.
(2) Go to games against weak opponents. Most fans prefer to go to the premier games against the league’s top talent. You will have a better opportunity to find lower prices when the Lakers are playing lesser quality opponents.
(3) Buy tickets early in the season. You will have a greater chance to find reasonable prices when you try to go to games early season games. Look for games that are played in October, November, December or January.
(4) Check for misspellings in advertisements. If a ticket seller on an auction site, like ebay, has a misspelling in their ad, fewer people will find the ad. If there are fewer people looking to a particular, there is less competition. Less completion, means fewer bid, and therefore lower prices for the winning bidder.
(5) Go to Clippers home games. Look for games when the Lakers the road team against the Clippers. Fewer people are looking for home games for the other LA basketball team.
When you want to attend Lakers games, you can either pay a very high premium by using ticket brokers or use the alternative approaches mentioned above. By using these five methods, you should be able to find cheap Lakers tickets.
Tags: Ebay, People Find, Ticket Seller
In earlier versions of Office, most toolbar items were not accessible via the keyboard. For a skilled keyboardist, this could be maddening! In Office 2007, every item that appears in the Ribbon is accessible using a keyboard command. KeyTips provide visual clues to let you know which key combinations you need to press to activate a particular Ribbon command.
To use KeyTips, press the Alt command. You’ll see three major divisions of keyboard shortcuts. The Alt + F combination will provide access to all Office Button functions. Alt + a letter will give you access to each tab on the ribbon. Alt + a number will give you access to each Quick Access toolbar function.
If you press Alt + a letter associated with a tab, a new set of KeyTips will appear when that tab is activated. Some KeyTips feature a two-letter key combination. When you press the appropriate KeyTip combination, the command you have selected will run, or a list of additional commands may appear. You can select additional actions from this list.
In some cases, you may want to programme a set of keyboard shortcuts. Currently, Word is the only Office application that extends this functionality. To programme a keyboard shortcut, open the Word Options dialogue box and choose the Customisation page.
Click the Customisation button. This will open the Customise Keyboard dialogue box.
Select the category that contains the command you wish to customise, then select the command itself. If you’ve chosen a command that has a pre-programmed shortcut, the existing shortcut will appear in the Current Keys list.
Activate the Press new shortcut key text box by clicking inside of it. Enter the new key combination. Word will display your choice and tell you if that combination is already assigned to something else. If the combination is available, click Assign.
Set the Save Changes In: flag to indicate where the new shortcuts should be saved. Click Close to close the Customise Keyboard dialogue box.
The keyboard shortcuts you programme will apply only to Word documents and VBA macros. They will not work in other Office documents.
Tags: Keyboard Command, Keyboard Shortcuts, Shortcut Keys
At the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 8, “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” opened to a favorable crowd of 2,100. While the film premiered four years after the sleeper hit “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle,” the film opens the next day after their burger run. Harold and Kumar have planned a trip to Amsterdam to meet the girl of Harold’s dreams but due to a misunderstanding on their flight the duo ends up en route to spending life in Guantanamo Bay. After a vulgar but comical scene, the pair escapes (hence the title) and the adventure begins.
Schlossberg and co-writer and director Jon Hurwitz discussed the evolution of the film at the Drugs, Race & Politics: Harold and Kumar panel. According to the writers, the first film was not a box office success but DVD rental and sales skyrocketed making the film a financial smash. Yet, even before the film was successful, they had intended a sequel. Schlossberg and Hurwitz intended to make the sequel about Harold and Kumar traveling to Amsterdam but during the time they were developing the story “Euro Trip” came out. So they threw out some new ideas and eventually built the movie around the concept of racial profiling. An amusing one-liner in the film nods to this development. John Cho (Harold) explains that the politics in the film were a device, “to amp the stakes more than anything else. The film doesn’t have anything to say.”
While the title may imply a politically charged film, according to Kal Penn, the film is really about two friends. Hayden Schlossberg, writer, said at a panel discussion on the film that, “our goal is for the audience to be laughing constantly. It’s really about the vagina jokes.” Neil Patrick Harris, co-star, concurred by announcing, “there’s a great deal of vagina in this film.” Having not yet seen the film when I heard this, I thought perhaps they were being modest as the film overtly challenges American violations of first amendment rights. Yet after seeing the film, it is true. It is just a vagina film. However, with that expectation in mind, you can enjoy the film for what it’s worth.
Yet, what was so great about Harold and Kumar Goes to White Castle is that the concept was simple and fun. In this film the political backdrop gets in the way rather than enhancing the character development of Harold and Kumar. The film is quick to offend but is an equal opportunist, making fun of southerners to Cubans. However, rather than challenging stereotypes, the film reinforces them. This bitterly disappointed me. Just because they are traveling through the south, the duo comes across a KKK meeting and an inbred couple. Sigh. Where the film does challenge stereotypes is when Rob Corrdry (the despicable bad guy in the film, Ron Fox best known as a commentator on the Jon Stewart Daily Show) comes across a small African American community and in the spirit of “Borat” opens up a can of grape soda to try and get a guy to talk. The man, a soft spoken orthodontist, shakes his head in disgust.
However, no matter what weaknesses the film may have, something is compelling about the two characters Harold and Kumar. Even though the subversive humor of White Castle gets a little lost in Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Kumar (Kal Penn) and Harold (John Cho) are delightful. Their friendship development really is the crux of the film despite the romantic angles and travels along the way. The writers dug a little deeper into the past of Harold and Kumar and provides some funny insights into their friendship. If you are a fan of the crass humor, this film serves up loads of quick laughs. And while I won’t ruin the surprise for you, the pair do run across some highly important political figures with surprising results. This film is what it is and as long as you don’t have expectations beyond a quick thrill, you can enjoy the humorous dialogue. Not to mention, Neil Patrick Harris, as his semi-self is truly the highlight of the film.
The film opens tomorrow at the Oxford Malco Studio.
Tags: Drugs, Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle, Kumar Go To White Castle
