With attendance in the tens to hundreds of thousands, some of the biggest public festivals offer examples of the event industry's biggest achievements in overcoming challenges.
THERE'S no place like home for the holidays. Especially when the home in question is a lavish Nashville, Tenn., estate set on spectacularly landscaped grounds featuring gardens, terrace, pool house and portico. With ...
PETER Cwalino has come a long way from his days working room service at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla. Yes, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas-educated, CSEP-designated event pro still aims to serve. These days, h...
SOARING, scaling, twisting and tumbling — the current crop of hot troupes in event entertainment is motion incarnate. And while they may owe some of their moves to Cirque du Soleil — the landmark company whose blend ...
WHAT started out as a low-key Academy Awards night house party with a passing of the hat to raise cash for AIDS sufferers has become one of San Francisco's premier benefit events. Along with transformation of the hum...
IT-GIRL planner Yifat Oren has gotten a lot of compliments in her 10 years as an event designer. But the best by far, she says, came on the heels of the four-day, 300-guest wedding she created for superstar client Ke...
THOUGH SHE'S BEEN with global money management firm Invesco for 18 years, Wanda Wynn says she still considers herself an event industry “newcomer.” Maybe that's because she spent half that time as a portfolio adminis...
RAIN, RAIN AND more rain. February, the month that former Los Angeles Laker basketball star Derek Fisher picked to celebrate his marriage to longtime fiancée Candace Patton, fell in the soggy middle of one of L.A.'s ...
THINK YOUR AVERAGE well-heeled corporate event crowd is tough to please? Well, how about a roomful of peppy preschoolers on a full-blown sugar high? Or a dance floor dripping with teenage ennui? While they may not kn...
HONORED BY THEIR industry for their achievements in design, production and food presentation, leading hotel catering professionals look toward future challenges in our annual “Catered Arts” cover story.
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