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Premier Rebranded and Relaunched
Moscone Center, San Francisco, will now be a Premier account. The launch of Premier Food Services, headquartered in San Diego, is about West Coast attitude, local service and corporate headquarters...
View ArticleIAVM Conference Highlights Tech Updates
Gateway Fireworks Displays present attendees at the IAVM Region 2+3 Conference at St. Charles (Mo.) Convention Center with a close proximate pyrotechnics sampler before discussing risk management....
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Live Nation Hires Jordan Zachary
Live Nation Entertainment announced that Jordan Zachary has been named chief strategy officer, reporting to president and CEO Michael Rapino. Zachary joins Live Nation from The Raine Group, where as a...
View ArticleHot Tickets for May 27, 2015
Billy Joel performs at Target Center in Minneapolis, May 16. (Photo by Jordan Johnson) A sold-out crowd packed into Target Center, Minneapolis, for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Billy Joel. The May 16...
View ArticleFirst Four Mosaic Stadium Sponsors Revealed
Rendering of the new Mosaic Stadium, to open in 2016 and host football in 2017. On Monday, Canada’s Saskatchewan Roughriders Football Club announced four of its 12 major partners in the building of the...
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Calif. State Fair to Host Drone Racing
Racing gates like the one pictured will be just one of a number of obstacles included in the course at the 2015 U.S. National Drone Racing Championship, June 16-17 at the California State Fair in...
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Toyota Center Hosts All Night Crowd
On Memorial Day, the Round Rock Express' Dell Diamond, Round Rock, Texas, resembled a swimming pool more than an outfield. (Photo by Round Rock Express) As flood-ravaged Texas continues getting pounded...
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Savor ... Hires Douglas Bradley
Savor … has hired Douglas Bradley as vice president of Culinary to lead their team of 80+ chefs around the country. Classically trained as a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Bradley...
View ArticleRed Bull Events Crushing It
More than 10,000 people attended the Red Bull Frozen Rush event at Sunday River resort in Newry, Maine. (Photo by Garth Milan/Red Bull Content Pool) For many people, Red Bull is a beverage you slug...
View ArticleBernie Goes Bonkers Again
Bernie Punt, EAMC 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee and director of marketing and sales, Bryce Jordan Center; Will Ferrell; Bob Howard, GM, Bryce Jordan Center, State College, Pa.; and Demetri Martin. (Photo...
View ArticleLocal Promoters Talk Changing Times
Steve Litman, Charlie Goldstone and Brad Garrett discuss changes to the independent promoter industry in a world of giants like Live Nation and AEG. (VT Photo) REPORTING FROM TACOMA, WASH. — It’s no...
View ArticleFrom the Editor
In 1983, I wrote about the phenomenon of major food service at festivals. The event was the US Festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, Calif., and the concessionaire with this unique...
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Talking Points
STEVEN ADELMAN Founder Adelman Law Group Scottsdale, Ariz. EAST COAST CONNECTIONS: I grew up about an hour outside of New York City and then went to college and law school and started practicing in...
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The Mid-Atlantic Machine
Electric Daisy Carnival takes over MetLife Stadium, E. Rutherford, N.J. (Photo by MetLife Stadium) Despite a frigid winter of brutal snowstorms in parts of the Mid-Atlantic, this year’s 25 Top Stops...
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Flexibility Trumps Tradition
Eric Church on stage at Bancorp South Arena, Tupelo, Miss. America’s Deep South is distinguished by its hospitality, history, diverse cities and, more recently, by a bevy of successful venues that are...
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More than Southern Charm
Birmingham's historic Sloss Furnace is still booked for community events. The logo that the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau utilizes to market the largest populated city in Alabama...
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Improving the Southern Fan Experience
Baton Rouge (La.) River Center lights up the night. From an overhaul of seating to facelifts to new scoreboards, a number of the South’s top venues have been earmarked for updates and renovations this...
View ArticleCelebrating Decades of Service
There are a number of historic landmarks in the Deep South and although this designation does not apply to the region’s venues, there are some now celebrating a history of success. The Von Braun...
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Operations on Stage
Organizers of the inaugural Venue Operations Summit include, Russ Simons, seated, Venue Solutions Group, and, standing from left; Rich DiGiacomo, Samantha Le, Rob Ocampo and Linda Deckard, Venues...
View ArticleExtending Shelf Life for Venues
In 1999, it cost about $290 million to build LP Field, Nashville, Tenn., home to the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans. Just 15 years later, the cost to build a major NFL stadium has soared...
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