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The Waikiki Surf Challenge game from Hawaiisurfsimulators.com involves surfers using an electronic surfboard to "virtually surf" big waves. Unique branding in the form of logos on flying banners and product photos in the wave's tube are ...
In the old days, event games were strictly kid stuff. As Stacey Paul Barabe, CSEP, director of sales for Orlando, Fla.-based Event Mall, puts it, “Before, you would show up with a dart game and a pop-a-shot and call it an ‘event.’” Now, games app...
SPECIAL special events call for special entertainment. And no acts pack more glamour than headline performers. With their name recognition and pop-culture cachet, celebrity singers, comedians and speakers can titillate — and motivate — as no othe...
THANKS to the array of celebrity poker tournaments on television, it's no surprise that casino games are a popular entertainment option for special events. Here, the experts who know casino games best discuss how to add Las Vegas-style excitement...
ONCE a performer himself, Douglas Johnson now heads up Entertainment Plus Productions, a 10-year-old Los Angeles-based full-service entertainment production company that has provided entertainment for this year's Grammy Awards after-party and MGM...
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 of atmospheric music and aston...
The region north of San Francisco may be famous for its wines, but often attendees at events in the Bay Area are too busy to visit the vineyards. Enter the Traveling Wine Bar from PoerWine Productions, based in St. Helena, Calif. Husband-and-wife...
She's got a shaker and she's ready to pour. She's Kim Haasarud, a “liquid chef” and founder of Los Angeles-based beverage consulting company Liquid Architecture. Haasarud can brand events with signature drinks that reinforce the event theme and h...
Growing up on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, Sean DeFreitas didn't have much in the way of worldliness. What the self-described “baby fish from a little island” did possess was a vision for his own future.
“When I was a kid, I told my mom I w...
