In our December cover story (“Tent Sensations”), the building of structural sets for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary event in Philadelphia was incorrectly attributed to Select Event Rentals. Affairs To Be Remembered in Broomall, Pa., was...
TO make a special event a success, having the right performers onstage is important. But just as important, professional staging suppliers will tell you, is the staging you build to support those performers. The right staging not only adds drama...
L.A.-based Classic Party Rentals, the biggest event rental company in the U.S., continued its acquisition spree with the announcement last week that it has acquired Ducky-Bob's Party & Tent Rentals, a major player in Texas, and Montebello...
In the Universal Studios film “The Producers,” Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom set out to produce a Broadway flop, but the world premiere of the film, held on Dec. 12 at the new AMC Theatres in west Los Angeles, was a bona-fide hit...
Nearly 400 generous members of SITE's Southern California chapter (SITE-SoCal) partied with a purpose last week, raising more than $102,000 for three local charities at the group's seventh annual holiday luncheon and charity auction...
Domestic diva Martha Stewart launched her DVD series, developed by Warner Home Video, with a pretty party at the Celeste Bartos Forum within the New York Public Library...
The Liverpool [England] Culture Co.'s Nov. 20 spectacle to turn on the city’s Christmas light display for 15,000 attendees was powered by lively stage acts along with environmentally sensitive, "green" generators from locally based Pyramid...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, based in White Plains, N.Y., announced Monday that its upscale Westin Hotels & Resorts brand will become the first hotel chain to introduce a systemwide policy banning smoking. Effective next month, all...
In our Nov. 23 edition of Eventline, we reported that Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals had acquired Aztec Tents & Events of Torrance, Calif. Spokespeople for the companies stress that Classic has acquired only the rental division of...