Barbizon Names Schneider Sales Manager, Arizona Office
TEMPE, AZ – Barbizon promoted Mark Schneider, a five-year company veteran, to sales manager for the company's Arizona office.
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LMG Becomes Authorized Vari*Lite Dealer
ORLANDO – LMG, Inc., which currently owns several Vari*Lite lighting systems, such as the VL 2000, VL 2500, VL 3000 and VL 3500 moving lights and Vari*Lite VLX Wash fixtures, recently became an authorized dealer for the brand.
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John Butler Trio Tours Green with Martin MAC 301 Wash
SYDNEY – The John Butler Trio One Way Road tour, which has recently finished touring Australia, adopted a carbon-neutral stance, calculating the carbon "footprint" and emissions generated during the tour and balancing those costs with an investment in renewable energy.
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UVLD Supports Hyundai Press Event at 2010 NAIAS
DETROIT – The auto industry might have regarded 2009 as a clunker of a year, but there was still enough cash (or at least credit) to stage the 21st North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). UVLD played a role with Hyundai Motor America's Blue-Will concept car.
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TobyMac LD Uses Vista Console for Lighting, Video
PHOENIX – Lighting and video designer Nick West used a Jands Vista T2 console for lighting, I-Mag and video control for the recent tobyMac annual Winter Wonder Slam tour. Axxis Inc. was the tour lighting company.
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Syncrolite and Lozano-Hemmer Set Stage for Vancouver Sky Show
VANCOUVER, BC – Light sculptor Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has incorporated Syncrolite fixtures in Vectorial Elevation, a work commissioned by the 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the City of Vancouver's initiative to celebrate artists along with athletes.
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LaserNet Brings Attention to Calder Casino Grand Opening
MIAMI GARDENS, FL – With the NFL's Pro Bowl and Super Bowl drawing much attention in South Florida, the recent grand opening for the Calder Casino, which added 1,200 slot machines and three new restaurants to the Calder Race Track complex for horse racing, needed a visual attention-getter.
Read More »ETCP Exam Application Deadline for USITT is March 1
KANSAS CITY, MO – All three ETCP exams – for entertainment electrical, arena rigging and theatre rigging – will be offered to USITT attendees this year, starting on March 31 and ending April 1. The deadline to apply is March 1.
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Cover It Up Transforms Museum for Special Events
LONDON – Cover It Up has been appointed as a "preferred" drapes and soft goods supplier to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Events and functions are routinely staged in places like the museum's Central Hall, home to "Dippy," a 26-meter-long Diplodocus skeleton.
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NorCal/Nevada AG Youth Convention Adds Martin LED Panel Visuals
SACRAMENTO, CA – Capital Christian Center, one of the biggest Assembly of God (AG) churches on the West Coast, can seat close to 3,000 and stages full productions for annual events such as the two-day Northern California/Nevada Youth Convention.
Read More »ESTA Posts Two New Control Protocols Draft Standards for Public Review
NEW YORK – ESTA has added two Control Protocols Working Group draft standards to the public review page on the ESTA Web site: BSR E1.30-1-20xx, EPI 23. Device Identification Subdevice, and BSR E1.20 – 201x, Entertainment Technology — Remote Device Management over USITT DMX512.
Read More »Penton Files Chapter 11
NEW YORK – Trade publisher Penton Media – publisher of titles including Live Design, Sound & Video Contractor, Mix and producers of the annual LDI show – announced that it is filing a "strategic" Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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