Hi, Jesse. As I mentioned in the other thread in the Eventbrite Forum, this is almost certainly caused by your Theme. If, as you stated above, you still see the same behavior in a WP default theme, I’d appreciate you letting us check it out.
Based on what we were able to see yesterday, the markup looked great until it was rendered in the browser, pointing to either something with JS or this issue (http://pippinsplugins.com/use-the_title-and-the_title_attribute-correctly/) reagarding use of the_title() and the_title_attribute(). It might also be worth checking in with your theme developer.
Let us know how it goes! π