Vocab for today: 炒票贩子, meaning "ticket scalper". The first character, 炒, literally means to fry (炒饭 is fried rice); 票 is ticket, and 贩子 is vendor or seller.

为有效打击炒票贩子，广州站从１１日开始，对退票超过５张的人进行查问。
In order to crack down on ticket scalpers, since January 11^th Guangzhou station has begun to closely question customers who return 5 or more tickets. (Soure)

As a reminder to the general public (and news-starved parents), I keep a calendar of public events online. The server it's on is flaky, so if you get an error then give it a few minutes and try again later.