Everything is less than zero, except the price of tickets to the Backstreet Boys’ special performance at the Napa Valley Opera House this Sunday. They’re $200 each! You’ve gotta be a huge, huge, I’d-put-it-in-all-caps-but-the-copy-editor-would-be-upset huge Backstreet fan to shell out that much, especially since the Boys are only promising to play a whopping eight songs. Eight songs! Sure, you get a 20-minute Q&A session and a group photo, but really? $200? Heck, for only $130, it’s a virtual steal to see Elvis Costello play there solo, and I guarantee he’ll play for at least an hour and a half. Costello has something like 978 songs to choose from—the Backstreet Boys, maybe a few dozen at the most? Seeing Costello in the 450-seat theater is like seeing him in your own living room. That’s why tickets are a little more pricey when Costello plays Thursday, April 8, at the Napa Valley Opera House. 1030 Main St., Napa. 8pm. $120–$135. 707.226.7372.Gabe Meline
.April 8: Elvis Costello at the Napa Valley Opera House
