Developed in response to customer demand, Torrance, Calif.-based Aztec Tents offers a new line of "Tidewater" sailcloth tents for fair-weather events. With their sculpted peaks and eaves, the tents offer nautical flair to events, while the "no va...
Billing itself as the "photo booth without the photo booth," LA Photo Party brings a professional, four-light mobile photo studio to events ranging from bar and bat mitzvahs to weddings, corporate events and fundraisers. Funny props including hat...
California asparagus growers are highlighting asparagus season--from March through June--with a series of new recipe cards for foodservice operations. The full-color cards include recipes for Grilled Asparagus with Lamb and Mustard Aioli, Asparag...
Two huge party occasions--the Academy Awards in Los Angeles and Mardi Gras in New Orleans--hit this week, and event professionals on both ends of the U.S. says business has been at least steady.
Event pros behind the Oscar bashes are reporting a...
1. Dorothy Draper-theme Event is Absolutely Fabulous
Transforming raw office space into a society-worthy soiree might have given even legendary debutante-turned-designer Dorothy Draper pause... More
2. Vintage Wedding Makes New Old Again
The ...
Some 68 percent of respondents to an online poll from Special Events last week say that recent moves by corporations to cancel incentives and other meetings are PR ploys to avoid the "AIG effect." Twenty-eight percent say the cancellations are a ...
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Industry fights to save incenti...
The recall of scores of peanut products linked to a Georgia processing plant contaminated with salmonella has had little direct impact on event caterers, but has once again raised consumer skittishness about food safety, a Special Events survey r...
Balmy weather, a busy show floor and packed events greeted event planners at The Special Event 2009, which ran Jan. 27-30 at the San Diego Convention Center.
The show started early with "TSE Gives Back," a volunteer event on Monday, Jan. 26, whi...
