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Shelter of Last Resort: Katrina and the Superdome
Click here for more information about attending Shelter of Last Resort: Katrina and the Superdome at the Event and Arena Marketing Conference, Jun 11-13 in New Orleans.The Superdome immediately after...
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George Strait Breaks Records with Final Show
Bryan Gale from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., was one of over 105,000 people in attendance for George Strait's final show at AT&T Center in Dallas. He shared this picture via Facebook. George...
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Belmont Stakes Traffic Jam Raises Awareness Over Parking
More than 100,000 Belmont Stakes-attendees at Belmont Park, Long Island, were caught in a massive traffic jam on Saturday after the event, causing some to scramble for alternative modes of...
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DNC's New Appointment at TD Garden
Ricky Casady has joined Delaware North Companies Boston as director of Box Office and Ticket Operations for TD Garden, the Boston Bruins and The Premium Club at the arena. Casady brings more than 10...
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Lorde Goes Off The Beaten Path On First Major U.S. Tour
There are ways things are typically done and then there’s the way that New Zealand singing sensation Lorde does it. The 17-year-old star has basically made it up as she goes along on the way to...
View ArticleHot Tickets for June 11, 2014
Jolene Van Vugt performs her Barbie Car jump during Nitro Circus Live. Motorsports and action sports are hot this summer. The X Games in Austin, Texas, at the Circuit of the Americas took place June...
View ArticleSavor Expands Through Acquisition
With this acquisition, Savor took over F&B operations at San Diego County Fair in Del Mar, Calif., which opened June 7 and regularly draws more than 1.4 million attendees. Though it will be keeping...
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Staples Center's Long Finals Run
When the LA Kings won the Stanley Cup in 2012, fans crowded in front of Staples Center in Los Angeles starting at 8 a.m. to get prime positions for the 1 p.m. championship parade, June 14. (VT Photos)...
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AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami has hosted the NBA Finals for four consecutive years. While the Miami Heat make their fourth consecutive trip to the NBA Finals and the San Antonio Spurs their second...
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X Games Race Into Austin
ESPN brought X Games to Austin for the first year of a four-year deal at Circuit of The Americas. The X Games logo during X Games Austin 2014 reflected some Texas spirit. (Photo by Phil Ellsworth /...
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Beyond Casinos
Atlantic City, N.J. While casinos will always be an integral part of the Atlantic City landscape, a new branding and marketing campaign for the tourist destination is proving that gaming is no longer...
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Welcome to Feld Studios
Kenneth Feld and his daughter Juliette pose for a photo inside the costume shop at Feld Entertainment Studios in Ellenton, Fla. (VT Photo) REPORTING FROM ELLENTON, FLA. — As Feld Entertainment has...
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A Touchdown in 2013
MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., hosts the Super Bowl, Feb. 2. There was much talk about the risk of holding Super Bowl XLVIII in an open air stadium in a potentially cold, Northeast climate....
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Talking Points
BONNIE BROSIOUS MARKETING DIRECTOR/TALENT BUYER THE ALLENTOWN (PA.) FAIR HOMETOWN: Allentown UNIVERSITY: Cedar Crest College in Allentown FIRST JOB: I started off doing journalism for a newspaper and...
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Someone needs to invent a melodious back-up beeper. And this is the industry that can do it. If musicians had created that beep, beep, beep, instead of engineers, the world would be a better place....
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The Launch of Singapore Sports Hub
A rendering of the master plan for Singapore Sports Hub. It’s been on the drawing board for more than 14 years and, beginning in May, the 12 facilities that make up the 3.75-million-sq.-ft. Singapore...
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Singapore Sports Hub Facts
Singapore Sports Hub Square Footage: 3,767,368 Cost: $1.04 billion Client: Sport Singapore, government entity formed in 1973 Equity Partners in SportsHub Pte. Ltd.: InfraRed Capital Partners; Dragages...
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Ultimate Experience
Escape Velocity by L.A.-based Poetic Kinetics was just one of more than a dozen art pieces at this year's Coachella festival, Indio, Calif. (VT Photo) REPORTING FROM INDIO, CALIF. — By most accounts,...
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What do facility managers need to know about Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)? According to the American Heart Association in 2013, there were 359,400 incidents of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in the...
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All in the Family
Growing up in the business comes with some perks. The family got together to meet Garth Brooks when he played a Romeo Entertainment Group-booked date at Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days on July 22, 1996....
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