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The Born Leader
Even at the young age of 31, Trent Merritt’s career with Spectra Venue Management has left a lasting impression of cooperation and whip-smart strategy spanning the United States and Canada. After...
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Location Benefits Southern Venues
Venues in the Deep South considered as top spots for touring shows and events can be excused for having just a little extra pride in the designation. In a region already known for Southern...
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Passing the Family-Show Torch
Family shows tend to endure and endear through time, as one generation of parents take the kids to a show, who eventually take their own children to the same show. Call it a generational passing of...
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Pope Francis is a Trotter
In the midst of all the management changes and milestone anniversaries, international business is a major area of continued growth for family shows. “We put the ‘globe’ in Globetrotters, that’s for...
View ArticleAsk Russ
What do you need to know about paper towels and electric hand dryers? There is an ongoing discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of both paper towels and electric hand dryers in restrooms. The...
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Swiping Right on Millennials
The Atlanta Hawks are taking date night to a whole new level with Swipe Right Night. The event marries the digital and physical worlds by bringing online matches offline for an in-person meet up at...
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That One Time When Kobe Broke Twitter
According to a Nielson report, over one million people posted 4.5 million tweets about Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant’s final game on April 13 at Staples Center, Los Angeles. During the final minutes...
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MANAGEMENTGreg Lehman has joined Venues Today as a staff reporter. He earned a bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism from California State University at Fullerton, as well...
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Sliding into Long Beach
Just south of Los Angeles, Long Beach’s harbor, beaches and burgeoning businesses are making the city into a force to be reckoned with when it comes to attracting conventions and other large events....
View ArticleFrom the Editor
Michael Rapino is obviously the face of Ticketmaster today. The chairman of Live Nation has been orchestrating a makeover of Ticketmaster the way Fred Rosen did nearly 40 years ago. They are...
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Talking Points
ERIC GRILLY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VStar Entertainment Group, Minneapolis HOMETOWN: Anchorage, Alaska UNIVERSITY: UC Davis HOW DID YOU GET YOUR JOB: (While working as president at Alli Sports at NBC...
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Q&A > Tim Romani > Icon Venue Group
Tim Romani’s Icon Venue Group, a leading project management/owner’s representative firm based in Denver, was purchased in late-March by CAA Sports, a division of leading Los Angeles-based entertainment...
View ArticleBarcelona Arena Design Unveiled
Palau Blaugrana will seat 12,000 for sporting events. (Rendering courtesy of HOK) Design details have been released for FC Barcelona’s new arena Palau Blaugrana by St. Louis-based architect HOK and...
View Article‘World’s Largest’ Music Arena coming to Las Vegas
Las Vegas Plans were unveiled today to build a new, first-of-its-kind 400,000-sq.-ft. music venue in Las Vegas funded by some of the biggest names in live music. Investors include Madison Square...
View ArticleBarcelona Arena Design Unveiled
Palau Blaugrana will seat 12,000 for sporting events. (Rendering courtesy of HOK) Design details have been released for FC Barcelona’s new arena Palau Blaugrana by St. Louis-based architect HOK and...
View ArticleUSA Gymnastics Tour Springs Into Action
Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Team 2016 Even though the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro is still months away (Aug. 5-21), USA Gymnastics and AEG are hard at work getting the 2016 Kellogg’s Tour of...
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Bootstrapped Vendini Unstraps
Vendini Logo Vendini, an upstart ticketing software company established in 2002, hopes to take it to the next level with their announcement that they’ve raised $20 million in Series A funding from New...
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Cirque du Soleil Dives into Broadway
The production of PARAMOUR for the Lyric Theatre on Broadway involves some of Cirque du Soleil's usual acrobatics but in a love story worth of the genre. Pictured in the foreground are Andrew and Kevin...
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Kaaboo Books Fairgrounds for 10 Years
Kaaboo, which is billed as ‘the ultimate adult weekend getaway for sophisticated concertgoers’ and prides itself on being ‘indulgent,’ has signed a deal with The Del Mar (Calif.) Fairgrounds that will...
View ArticleHot Tickets for June 7, 2016
Comedy is hot, including the Comedy Get Down tour, featuring Eddie Griffin, Mike Epps, Cedric the Entertainer, Charlie Murphy, George Lopez, and D.L. Hughley, which hit the Rose Quarter, Portland,...
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