This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
| |
The New York Times
The past loomed, long and weighty, over Desert Trip, a three-night festival here with a lineup of baby boomers' rock heroes. It was simply two sets a night: The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan on Friday, Paul McCartney and Neil Young on Saturday and Roger Waters and the Who on Sunday. That lineup is to be repeated Friday through Sunday and perhaps never again.
The musicians are among the last of a very limited breed. They all got their start in the 1960s, delivered songs that became cultural touchstones, have kept recording into this century and can fill arenas on tour. (They are also all white men; was Aretha Franklin invited?)
READ MORE
White Nights in Dubai
White Nights in Dubai is the first ever musical festival of its kind in the Middle East that will bring together a carefully curated collection of the brightest and biggest stars from the world of music from March 30 to April 8, 2017 at Dubai Opera.
READ MORE
 |
|
The Texas Birthday Bash is an event celebrating Texas Independence sponsored by the City of Navasota. Texas Birthday Bash is 2 days of country music & Texas themed family fun activities. Concerts, family activities and shuttles are completely FREE and held in historic downtown Navasota. For more information visit our website at www.texasbirthdaybash.com
|
|
People Magazine
Lady Gaga is hopeful her Super Bowl halftime performance will garner "Applause" — and go down in the history books!
"I want every guy's girlfriend in his arms ... I want every husband and wife kissing ... every kid laughing," Gaga, 30, told Radio Disney host Candice in a new interview. "In my mind they're having this really powerful family experience watching the Super Bowl."
READ MORE
The Jakarta Post
Eyeing Chinese visitors as its main tourist market, Indonesia is set to make a culinary and shopping festival an annual event.
Tourism Minister Arief Yahya told kompas.com that China had become the archipelago's main tourist market as it had beaten Australia in terms of the number of outbound visitors to Indonesia.
READ MORE
ABC News
Last year almost 480,451 people went through the turnstiles at Floriade 2015 with almost half of the visitors coming from interstate.
The recent wet weather and two-day closure appear to have impacted on this year's event although the final visitor numbers will not be known for sometime.
READ MORE
Mashable
There is a Santa's workshop and it's in the heart of New Jersey.
Housed in a relatively understated, three-story brick building, Macy's Studio is not filled with toys, but, instead, wondrous holiday creations that boggle the mind. Year-round, a team of designers, builders and artists craft the floats and giant balloons that populate the annual holiday season extravaganza known as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
READ MORE
The Record
Craft beer makers and their fans partied into the night in the large shadow of a corporate sponsorship agreement that freezes them out of any official role in KW Oktoberfest.
Alex Szaflarska and Rob Shorney watched as hundreds of people packed the large white tent in the heart of downtown Kitchener for Craftoberfest 2016 — the first of what they hope will be an annual party.
READ MORE
MENAFN
DOHA: The Eid in Qatar Celebrations and Qatar Summer Festival have substantially contributed to spurring tourism during the off-peak season from July to September, Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) figures revealed.
The three most anticipated nationwide events on QTA's calendar, which lasted for 43 days, have again proved effective in attracting huge number of tourists from neighboring countries as shown by the increase in visitor arrivals which generated positive impact in the hospitality and retail sectors.
READ MORE
Channel NewsAsia
Singapore hopes to double the number of Myanmar tourists to the city-state from the 105,000 arrivals it saw in 2015. Some of Singapore's landmarks were shown off in Yangon to entice Myanmar citizens to visit.
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) launched a two-day Singapore Festival — the first of its kind in Myanmar — featuring the various attractions the Lion City offers.
READ MORE
Phoenix Business Journal
The NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four will be played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale next spring. But like the Super Bowl and other tourism-driving big events, the fan fest and a concert series for the culmination of March Madness will take place in downtown Phoenix.
READ MORE
Marketing Week
Traditional sponsorship models are repetitive, boring and could leave brands at a disadvantage. That is the view of former Coca-Cola GB marketing director Bobby Brittain, who argues that being a top sponsor for global events such as the Olympics is a model that "no longer functions."
Talking at an Oystercatchers event on Sept. 13, he admitted "it must be the easiest job in the world to be the Pepsi marketing director" because they will know exactly what to expect from their rival every four years.
READ MORE
William & Mary
For the last 34 years, William (Bill) Schermerhorn '82 had what many would consider a dream job – he worked for Macy's and their Thanksgiving Day Parade. His last post was vice president and creative director at Macy's Parade and Entertainment Group. In advance of this year's Homecoming Parade, which Schermerhorn is helping to produce, William & Mary News asked the proud Tribe alumnus a few questions about the traditions and magic of parades.
READ MORE
|
Missed last week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
|
|
Don't be left behind. Click here to see what else you missed.
|
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
