A FRIEND SHARED WITH ME HIS EXPERIENCE attending the musical “Buddy” at the Queen Anne Theatre in London’s West End. In two acts, the play tracks the rapid rise and sudden demise of 22-year-old music icon Buddy Holly who perished in a plane crash during a snowstorm along with J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens after a rockin’ event in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1959 …
IN 2003, AT THE AGE OF 34, Tony Quan was at the top of his game.
Combining his creativity, keen understanding of social issues and urban culture, and possessing a multi-colored assortment of spray paints, Quan became a highly regarded graffiti artist in the gumbo of ethnicities that is East Los Angeles. And then …
If you’re like me, just when I’ve gotten the order of the named generations right [along with understanding their unique traits and characteristics], another generation comes along with
even more chatter about a “generational subset” that sits on the cusp of one gen and another. Confusion kicks back in.
For anyone who hosts, plans or attends corporate meetings and events, what does all this generational stuff mean? …
When hybrid meetings and events first became a thing a couple of years back, we all figured it was an interim “workaround” option during a global pandemic. Now, the value and practicality of hybrid programs is being reinforced by soaring U.S. inflation [9.1%, a 40-year high] and unprecedented challenges in commercial air travel due to a shortage of pilots and flight attendants, aviation fuel costs, etc. As a result, hybrid programs are still very, very much a thing and how you execute them is critical to your program’s success and your budget …
They not only hit home runs, their carefully choreographed dance routines are a home run with the crowd. They hurl fastballs as well as they hurl bananas into the stands. They turn double-plays as slickly as they turn the turnstiles. Who are they … ?
For the better part of a century, the hapless British Cycling team may as well have been named the Chicago Cubs, Buffalo Bills, even the Bad News Bears. Then something happened …
Has there ever been a more appropriately named horse than Rich Strike who overcame 80-1 odds two weekends ago to win the 148th Kentucky Derby? Is it time for the meetings and events industry to experience its own “rich strike” …?
Two days ago, I came across an item in news-aggregator Axios entitled 1 Big Thing: Permanent Price Hike that put forth the not-so-encouraging premise that many pandemic-era price hikes are here to stay, as in forever. Same may be true of escalating costs and competition for space in the hotel industry …
We’re likely all familiar with the expression “driven to distraction”. I’d take that a few giant steps further and say we’re being escorted, ushered, chauffeured and valeted to distraction these days! …
Recently, my wife went to dinner with a friend at one of our favorite restaurants, one we’d been to many, many times over the past 7-8 years. When she got home, I asked her how it was and she replied …
