WHILE MANY special event professionals are just starting to agonize over plans for New Year's Eve 1999, event producer Harith Wickrema can relax. That's because he staged his millen-nium blowout for a corporate client five months ago. And it wasn...

ASK BUSINESS PEOPLE across the country about "Y2K"-a.k.a. "the millennium bug"-and reactions range from an Alfred E. Neumanesque "What, me worry?" to Henny Penny's "The sky is falling!" ...

FOR A RECENT Star Wars-themed party, Los Angeles-based Poko Event Productions used the force to create an out-of-this-world experience-the creative force, that is...

Robin Kring's Storybook Weddings-A Guide to Fun and Romantic Theme Weddings covers all aspects of theme weddings, including invitations, dress, decor, entertainment and menus. Fifty themes are featured, among them a wedding in Camelot, a Roaring ...

The latest flash for the upcoming New Year's Eve celebration: The single-use, 35-mm Greeting Camera adds a banner featuring a millennium greeting and a customized corporate logo to each photo it takes. Contact Fairworld at 800/441-3028; e-mail...

The Big Apple is home to a big prop warehouse: Eclectic/Encore Props. The 75,000-square-foot warehouse displays props for Egyptian, carnival, jungle scene, cigar lounge, haunted house, French parlor, '50s diner, nautical, Victorian, wedding decor...

DOLLARS AND SENSE "Make sure your cash-flow projections are well-padded, and do not live off your client's deposits. Better to get your bank to give you a line of credit for those gap periods. Nothing stresses like waiting for a check." ...

MOVING UP Building Concepts, the West Coast sales group for Eureka! Tents & Seasonal Structures, has appointed Bruce Stanert as a sales and marketing representative. 4335 Sweetbriar St., Ventura, CA 93003; 805/648-6168. t Amy Ellzey has joined...

Event design and prop company Theme Warehouse of Downey, Calif., has purchased the prop inventory of Los Angeles-based Merv Griffin Productions. The acquisition of the 800-item Roschu collection of themed stage props-including circus, African and...

IN THE 1950s, fans who went to Yankee Stadium in New York or Soldier Field in Chicago to watch a sporting event might also have enjoyed a hot dog and soda...