Educating Future Venue Managers
Steve Camp, retired; Dr. Kim Mahoney, University of New Haven; and Lee Esckilsen, Johnson and Wales, tell Lisa Chamness about the new public assembly venue management textbook. Not pictured, co-author...
View ArticleBreaking the Threshold of Fear at Tessitura
Renee Fleming's Tuesday keynote was live streamed from Orlando over Tessitura's website, a service Fleming herself called inevitable and important. REPORTING FROM ORLANDO — Tessitura’s 15th Learning...
View ArticleNew Manager Helms First OC Fair
OC Fair, Costa Mesa, Calif. (Photo by OC Fair and Event Center) Kathy Kramer joined the OC Fair team in Costa Mesa, Calif., in January and spent her first fair watching and learning. Though attendance...
View ArticleSMG Recommended to Manage the Greek
The iconic Greek Theatre, Los Angeles. SMG has been recommended to manage The Greek, Los Angeles, for 2016, with two one-year options to renew. It is to be a flat-fee management contract with the L.A....
View ArticleDirect Energy Centre Becomes Enercare Centre
Toronto's Enercare Centre. As part of a new naming rights agreement, Toronto’s Direct Energy Centre is now the Enercare Centre. Enercare, one of Canada’s largest home and commercial services companies,...
View ArticleWorking Through Civil Unrest
The VenueConnect panel included (L-R) Dennis Reinhard, Bob Pollicino and Ray DiNunzio and was moderated by Russ Simons. REPORTING FROM BALTIMORE—It couldn’t be a complete VenueConnect 2015 in Baltimore...
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Musser Joins GF Strategies
Longtime fair executive Tom Musser has joined the GF Strategies team as a project manager. Musser just wrapped up a 35-year career in the fair industry after five years as the manager of the Merced...
View ArticleNAME Acquired by Media Group
Billy Currington performs at TSQ's Taste of Country music festival at Hunter Mountain, N.Y., on June 13, 2015. Though North American Midway Entertainment (NAME) co-CEOs Danny Huston and Jeff Blomsness...
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Yormark on Building a Brooklyn Brand
Rendering of the new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, Long Island, N.Y., which will have curb appeal, just like Barclays Center.Brett Yormark With the 2016 reopening of Nassau Veterans...
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Mercedes-Benz Stadium to Open in 2017
A newly-unveiled rendering of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta. The Atlanta Falcons’ new Georgia stadium will be opening in 2017 with the name Mercedes-Benz Stadium thanks to a new naming rights deal...
View ArticleReady to RISE on Friday
A panel of Women of Influence and Generation Nexters at last year's RISE talked generational differences. (VT Photo)"Our ethics are what guide us to make effective management decisions and avoid...
View ArticleHot Tickets for August 26, 2015
Wiz Khalifa performs at the Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater in Nampa, Idaho on July 31. Wiz Khalifa, of recent fame for being briefly detained at Los Angeles International Airport for riding a...
View ArticleFrom the Editor
As Karen Totaro advised us all at our Women of Influence reception in Baltimore, “Just go for it.” Karen, who is incoming chairman of IAVM and a 2015 Woman of Influence who also works for a living for...
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Talking Points
Andrew Saunders Booking Manager Venue Coalition Westlake Village, Calif. UNIVERSITY: University of Southern California MUSICAL ROOTS: I was a trombone and tuba player in high school, and I was in a...
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Bringing Hollywood to Macau
Studio City Event Center, Macau. The grand opening of the Studio City Event Center (SCEC) in Macau is generating a mighty buzz even before the doors to Asia’s first leisure resort to integrate...
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China Endorses Exhibition Industry
Shenyang, China, the largest city in the Liaoning Province and its capital, is in the midst of a building boom. The 5,000-seat Studio City Event Center in Macau, which opens Oct. 27, is a shining...
View ArticleSwift Growth in Shanghai
Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai, has had its best year ever, said Michael Enoch, GM there for AEG-OPG China. With 90 events in the arena and 82 in the theater, it is also the most events ever. Now,...
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New Names, New Games
The Axis at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Rebranding and an emphasis on ancillary income, particularly preshow dinners and special food and drink offers, are among ways Top Stops in the Southwest have...
View ArticleBroadway Matters
After losing his Theater League Broadway Series two years ago, Randy Vogel, Mesa (Ariz.) Arts Center, is happy to have Broadway back.“We opened 10 years ago with the Theater League presenting...
View ArticleRemembering is Rebranding, Too
For the Tucson (Ariz.) Convention Center, rebranding is about reintroducing the arena to touring talent. Glenn Grabski, who has been general manager there for SMG since last October, when the 1971-era...
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