{"slides":[{"media_title":"Ralph Barbosa & Rene Vaca: The Bufferfly Effect","media_tagline":"","event_body":"The Butterfly Effect Tour brings together comics Ralph Barbosa and René Vaca for a night of comedy you won’t soon forget. The tour – originally meant to include comic Ken Flores – now carries on in honor of him. Don’t miss out on this night of laughs and remembrance.\n \n\n\n\nOne of the shyest attention hogs to ever do comedy, Ralph Barbosa’s disarming and laid-back style has made him a stand-out on stage, on TV and online. Most recently, Ralph taped his Hulu comedy special that will release in 2025. In 2024, he was nominated as one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch. After a breakout year in 2023, Ralph is touring theaters in 2024 and 2025 with his North American theater tour, Ralph Barbosa: The Super Cool Ass Tour, which is selling out and adding shows. This included selling out two theater shows during Netflix Is A Joke Fest 2024, as well as hosting the kick-off Introducing show. On October 31st, 2023, Ralph premiered his Netflix stand-up special, Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga, which ranked as the #3 TV show on Netflix throughout its first week on the service. In January 2023, he made his debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, his Comedy Central Stand-up Featuring: Ralph Barbosa set has topped 5.1 million views on YouTube. In November 2022, Ralph starred in the HBO Max comedy special, Entre Nos: The Winners 3, and earlier that year his Don’t Tell Comedy performance was released on YouTube and now has over 5.7 million views. For more on Ralph visit his website, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube pages.\n\n \n\nBorn and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, René Vaca is a 29-year-old stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. Although he started a landscaping business at 15 years old, he soon realized he wanted to pursue comedy for a living; he dropped out of college and has not looked back since. Vaca has been pursuing his dream of stand-up comedy and won the 16th annual StandUp NBC competition! Since then, Vaca has also built a following with his stand-up comedy clips reaching millions of views across his social media channels, including over 900 thousand followers on Instagram and 580 thousand followers on TikTok. Currently, he is on his nationwide tour.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/rbrv-1240x630-c6aa56e05d.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/ralph-barbosa-rene-vaca","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jul<\/span> 13<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/rbrv-840x630-8d44b7c699.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Colin Jost","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Colin Jost is a writer, performer and author best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live.”\n\nJost starting writing for “SNL” in 2005 and has been the co-anchor of the show’s “Weekend Update” since 2014.\n\nJost has won five Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards and has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards for his writing on “SNL.” Jost and Michael Che have hosted special editions of “Weekend Update” on MSNBC during the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions as well as the primetime “Weekend Update Summer Edition” in 2017. The duo also co-hosted the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2018 and in 2024 executive produced and co-hosted Peacock’s first-ever live comedy event, “Colin Jost and Michae Che Present: New York After Dark,” which featured an evening of surprise drop-in performances from stand-up comedians. In 2015, Jost wrote “Staten Island Summer,” a coming-of-age comedy that was released by Paramount Pictures. In 2016, he had a supporting role in the Warner Bros. film “How to Be Single.” Jost can be seen in the Paramount film “Coming 2 America.” He also starred in the Warner Bros. live-action animation film “Tom and Jerry.”\n\nAs a writer, Jost has been published multiple times in the New Yorker and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine and the Huffington Post, among others.\n\nIn 2020, Jost debuted “A Very Punchable Face.” A New York Times bestseller, the memoir is a series of essays that documents pivotal moments in Jost’s life, including growing up in Staten Island in a family of firefighters, commuting three hours a day to high school, attending Harvard while Facebook was created and more. In 2024, Jost served as a correspondent from Tahiti for NBC Sports for the surfing competition at the summer Olympic Games. He also received strong reviews as the featured entertainer of the 2024 White House Correspondents Dinner.\n\nColin is the host of “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” for Amazon Prime Video.\n\n\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Static_Venue-Digital-Website_1240x630_ColinJost_2025_Regional_TheVETS_0808-ec7c5413d3.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/colin-jost","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Aug<\/span> 8<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/Static_Venue-Digital-Website_840x630_ColinJost_2025_Regional_TheVETS_0808-f0e7616c49.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Indigo Girls & Melissa Etheridge: Yes We Are Tour","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Released in 1989, Indigo Girls' eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears” and turned Indigo Girls into one of the most successful folk duos in history. \n\nMelissa Etheridge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. Known for her confessional lyrics and raspy, smoky vocals, she has remained one of America's favorite female singers for more than two decades. \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/meig-1240x620-7cda721670.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/indigo-girls-melissa-etheridge","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Sep<\/span> 15<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/meig-840x630-4a4266197b.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Kevin James: Owls Don't Walk","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.\n\nThe King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a Netflix sitcom set in the world of NASCAR.\n\nJames brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim.\n\nJames made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred in, produced and co-wrote the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James has starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween. He starred in the features True Memoirs of an International Assassin and Home Team for Netflix, as well as the independent action thriller Becky.\n\nJames can currently be seen in his one hour stand-up comedy special Kevin James: Irregardless on Prime Video, which was nominated for 2024's Best Comedy Special by the Critics Choice Awards. James will also be starring in the upcoming feature film Playdate, alongside Alan Ritchson.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/kevinjames-1240x630-962edf1c84.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/kevin-james-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Sep<\/span> 25<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured group","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/kevinjames-840x630-bb928726e2.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"ZZ Top: The Elevation Tour","media_tagline":"","event_body":"“That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” has been at it for well over a half century, delivering rock, blues and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans. With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ TOP is virtually synonymous with beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language.\n\n \n\nIt was in Houston in the waning days of 1969 that ZZ TOP coalesced from the core of two rival bands, Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks and Frank Beard and Dusty Hill’s American Blues. Their third album, 1973’s Tres Hombres, catapulted them to national attention with the hit “La Grange,” still one of the band’s signature pieces today. Eliminator, their 1983 album was something of a paradigm shift for ZZ TOP. Their roots blues skew was intact but added to the mix were tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with such tracks as “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs” on the nascent MTV. It was one of the music industry’s first albums to have been certified Diamond, far beyond Gold and Platinum and a reflection of US domestic sales exceeding 10 million units.\n\n \n\nAs a touring entity, they’ve been without peer over the past five decades, having performed before millions of fans on four continents and have been the subject of their own Grammy-nominated documentary titled That Little Ol’ Band From Texas.  The band’s line-up of the bearded Gibbons and Hill and Beard, who ironically is clean shaven, remained intact for more than 50 years until Dusty’s passing.  When Dusty temporarily departed the tour in the summer of 2021, it was a given that Elwood would be the perfect choice to stand in for Dusty until he could return. But Dusty’s return was not to be, and Elwood continues to handle the bass duties for the band now and into the future.\n\n \n\nThe elements that keep ZZ TOP fresh, enduring and above the transitory fray can be summed up in the three words of the band’s internal mantra: “Tone, Taste and Tenacity.”. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers. Their influences are both the originators of the form – Muddy Waters, B.B. King, et al – as well as the British blues rockers and Jimi Hendrix who emerged the generation before ZZ’s ascendance.\n\n \n\nThey have sold hundreds of millions of records over the course of their career, have been officially designated as Heroes of The State of Texas, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (by Keith Richards, no less) and have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms. They are true rock icons and, against all odds, they’re really just doing what they’ve always done. ZZ TOP abides!\n\n \n\n \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/zztop-1240x630-c788f77925.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/zztop-elevation","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Sep<\/span> 26<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/zztop-840x630-b9ed7343ef.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Kumail Nanjiani: Doing This Again","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Kumail Nanjiani is an Oscar-nominated writer, Emmy-nominated and SAG Award winning actor, and critically acclaimed producer and comedian.\n\nNanjiani recently won a SAG Award for his recurring role in the 4th season of hit Hulu series Only Murders in the Building and earned an Emmy nomination for his compelling portrayal of Chippendales Founder in Hulu’s limited series, Welcome to Chippendales, which he also served as an executive producer on.\n\nMost recently, Nanjiani can be seen in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire alongside returning cast-members Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon, which hit theaters on March 22, 2024. On the animation side, Nanjiani lent his voice to Migration, a Universal Pictures adventure-comedy that is now available on VOD. Additionally, Kumail can be seen regularly doing stand-up shows around some of LA’s greatest comedy theaters, and participated in this year’s Netflix is a Joke Festival.\n\nUpcoming, Nanjiani will be seen in the new James L. Brooks film, Ella McCay, alongside all-star cast that Includes Emma Mackey, Woody Harrelson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Albert Brooks. He will also star in the 2nd season of hit Peacock series Poker Face and is releasing his first stand up comedy special in over ten years on Hulu.\n\nAdditional past works of Nanjiani include the Disney+ Star Wars prequel Obi-Wan, Marvel film The Eternals, and The Big Sick, which Kumail and his wife Emily V. Gordon received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He and his wife Emily also served as executive producers on the Apple TV+ series Little America.\n\nNanjiani rose to fame when he starred as ‘Dinesh’ in the Emmy Award- winning HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Additional television credits include Bless the Harts, The Twilight Zone, The Meltdown, Portlandia, Franklin & Bash, The X-Files and Community.\n\nAdditional film credits include The Lovebirds, Stuber, Men In Black: International, Fist Fight, Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates, The Five-Year Engagement, Central Intelligence, and The Lego Ninjago Movie.\n\n\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/kumail-1240x630-47cc2e39d6.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/kumail-nanjiani","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Sep<\/span> 27<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/kumail-840x630-deba134b48.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Chris Fleming","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Chris Fleming has a new hour special out on Peacock titled HELL. He has amassed over 80 million views on his Youtube channel and has appeared in Abbott Elementary, LOOT, Comedy Central’s CORPORATE, Waffles and Mochi, Netflix’s Last Laugh as well as voicing characters in the Great North, Adventure Time, Summer Camp Island and Bigtop Burger. The Huffington Post has called him “perhaps one of the best things on the internet.” Of his live show, Chortle says, “you can’t take your eyes off this unpredictable, exciting performer.” "Glorious absurdity" boasts the New York Times, "a master of his craft" according to AVClub, and "truly one of a kind" -Paste Magazine. Splitsider says, “a madman and I think, genius.” According to Vulture, “equal parts imagination and inferiority complex, a combination that has led him to create some of the most bizarrely funny performance art taking place online and onstage today.”\n\n\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/chrisfleming-1240x630-e9aa452f61.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/chris-flemming","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 11<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/chrisfleming-840x630-30561c8a3a.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert presents a live orchestral rendition of the series' iconic soundtrack, paired with a nearly two-hour special recap of the animated series' three seasons displayed on a full-size cinema screen. The projection will feature the original dialogue and sound effects without any pre-recorded music, allowing the live orchestra to perform the legendary score live and in perfect sync with the show scenes. The result? A truly immersive and grandiose concert experience that breathes new life into Avatar: The Last Airbender.\n\n\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/ATLA_PROV_VENUE_1240x630-6a158bc385.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/avatar-airbender","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 12<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/ATLA_PROV_VENUE_840x630-58cf0de558.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Dream Theater: Parasomnia","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Beyond selling millions of records worldwide and gathering a billion-plus streams, Dream Theater have quietly evolved into progressive metal trailblazers over the course of an unprecedented journey earmarked by one unforgettable milestone after another. The career-launching Images & Words graced Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All-Time,” while Awake claimed #1 on Guitar World’s “Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994.” In addition to emerging as Classic Rock’s “15thGreatest Concept Album,” Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory toppled a fan-voted Rolling Stone poll as the “Number One All-Time Progressive Rock Album.” They shook the charts with three Top 10 debuts on the Billboard 200 and headlined sold out shows everywhere from Radio City Music Hall to Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The band garnered a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “The Alien” from 2021’s A View From The Top of the World. Of the latter, PROG raved, “Not just proper Dream Theater, then, but something ever-so-slightly bigger and better,” and Consequence attested, “A View From the Top of the World shows that the quintet is still offering music that is easily on par with their earlier efforts.” Now, Dream Theater have returned to their roots as James LaBrie [vocals], John Petrucci [guitar], John Myung [bass], and Jordan Rudess [keyboards] reunite with Mike Portnoy [drums] during their fortieth anniversary. Simultaneously, these five old friends enter a bold new era fueled by some of the most focused, formidable, and fiery music of their career. They’re harnessing the memories of the past and the promise of the future in order to make the most of the present. Ultimately, the group’s sixteenth full-length album, Parasomnia [Inside Out Music\/Sony Music], represents both where they came from and where they’re going as not only bandmates, but as brothers.\n\n \n\n \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/dreamtheater-1240x630-2-ab534e68ab.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/dream-theater-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 22<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/dreamtheater-840x630-2-a1c4c4e261.jpg","category":{"name":"Concerts","id":"1"}},{"media_title":"Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny","media_tagline":"","event_body":"If you like fast-paced, edgy one-liners then get ready to be happy. Jimmy Carr is going back on tour with his brand-new show ‘Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny’.\n\n \n\nJimmy tells jokes, and jokes are like magnets.\u202f\n\nJokes attract people, but they can also repel.\u202f\n\nSome people are repelled by Jimmy's dark brand of comedy. This show is not for them.\n\n \n\nBut if it's the kind of thing you like, then this is the kind of thing you’ll like.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/jimmycarr25-1240x630-cd24c64184.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/jimmy-carr-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Nov<\/span> 2<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured group","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/jimmycarr25-840x630-8fa7766a87.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}},{"media_title":"Sasha Velour's The Big Reveal Live Show","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Following the success of her first one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, Sasha Velour presents The Big Reveal Live Show. Directed, written, and produced by Velour, this new 90-minute show is her most over-the-top, side-splitting, emotional, and intricate theatrical production--and still her most intimate show yet. Velour presents an immersive evening of drag, storytelling, and live art, featuring shocking new reveal-filled performances from Velour herself in a show that will have you screaming with laughter at the start, and openly weeping by the end.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/sasha-1240x630-dc306c4bc2.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/events\/detail\/sasha-velour-25","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Nov<\/span> 14<\/span>, 2025<\/span>","promos":"home secondary featured group","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thevetsri.com\/assets\/img\/sasha-840x630-714beee127.jpg","category":{"name":"Comedy","id":"3"}}]}