News and trends in special events including bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, birthday parties, Sweet 16 parties, debutante balls, corporate events, awards programs, fairs, festivals, galas, fundraisers and green/eco events.
As an event planner for the Greater Kansas City [Mo.] Chamber of Commerce for 18 years, Bill Svoboda learned a lot about small businesses with big aspirations. It was their successes that inspired him and John Short, CMP, to strike out on their o...
Ballerinas routinely wow audiences with their pirouettes, but San Francisco-based Ideas, The Special Event Co., showed some fancy foot-work itself for the San Francisco Ballet's January opening-night gala. Just two weeks before the gala, the even...
Venues throughout the world are getting ready to turn out the lights for an hour on Saturday evening in support of Earth Hour. The event, first staged in Sydney in 2007 when 2.2 homes and businesses joined in, aims to draw worldwide attention to ...
The Westin New York at Times Square in Manhattan has been awarded a Silver certification from Green Seal, a nonprofit environmental standards agency. The certification recognizes the hotel's programs including in-room recycling, paperless guest r...
DMC pioneer Patti Roscoe, founder of the franchise system that has since grown to become industry powerhouse PRA/Allied International, looks at both good and bad developments in her business as trends change and the economy contracts. The intervi...
Green still goes Clients still want eco-friendly events even in the face of a dour economy, according to a recent online poll from Special Events. Nearly two-thirds of respondents say their clients are asking for the same level or more of green e...
In one of the roughest economies in memory, even long-standing fundraising galas are finding they must reinvent themselves in order to keep donations flowing in.
The event team behind the 11th annual Discovery Ball--held Saturday at the Califor...
Chicago-based C. Cretors & Co. has introduced a new line of concession equipment. The Echols line of high-speed ice shavers can shave up to 500 pounds of ice per hour, in sizes ranging from small cubes to 4.5-inch chunks. Powered by gas, battery ...
