Groupon has acquired SideTour, a marketplace for intimate events like wine tastings and cocktail-making tutorials hosted in private homes. The SideTour team will report to Greg Rudin, GM of GrouponLive. “This is the JV between Groupon and Live Nation, which … appears to be diversifying into other kinds of events within Groupon’s wider deals database, which stood at a whopping 54,000 events as of Q2,” TechCrunch reports.