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(7/30/2014)

-Martin Professional Luminaires Provide Vehicle Lighting Across the 2014 North American International Auto Show

Martin Professional Luminaires Provide Vehicle Lighting Across the 2014 North American International Auto Show

The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), better known as the Detroit Auto Show, is one of the largest automotive shows in North America and annually features many national and worldwide introductions from the world's most ...More

(7/30/2014)

-SGM G-Spot for "Fountain of Oneness"

SGM G-Spot for "Fountain of Oneness"

The foundation Universal Brotherhood has chosen SGM's G-Spot LED moving head for its Sant Nirankari Mission Fountain of Worship in India.
Lawrence Ryan of Eagle Eye Studios was tasked with designing and programming ...
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(7/30/2014)

-Theatre in Review: Sex with Strangers (Second Stage)

Theatre in Review: Sex with Strangers (Second Stage)

Love and literature make strange bedfellows in Sex with Strangers, a tart comedy that strongly suggests writers should date people in other professions. The author, Laura Eason, has invented just such a pair, made sure ...More

(7/29/2014)

-ETCP Launches Second Set of Web-Based Rigging Practice Exams

ETCP Launches Second Set of Web-Based Rigging Practice Exams

The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) will launch a new version of the practice exams for the Rigger - Arena and Rigger - Theatre certifications this summer. Both new practice exams will be accessible beginning ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Metropolitan Opera Responds to AFM Document Alleging Mismanagement

Metropolitan Opera Responds to AFM Document Alleging Mismanagement

On the eve of its contract negotiations with the Metropolitan Opera, Local 802, American Federation of Musicians released an 84-page document alleging that the Met's current fiscal problems are the result of mismanagement on ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Creative Conners Celebrates Ten Years of Automation

Creative Conners Celebrates Ten Years of Automation

From humble beginnings in a basement to nearly 1,000 Stagehand controllers moving scenery from coast to coast today, Creative Conners sees its first ten years in business as a moving accomplishment. ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Robe's LEDBeam 100s for Vasco Rossi Shows

Robe's LEDBeam 100s for Vasco Rossi Shows

Iconic Italian superstar singer / songwriter Vasco Rossi staged seven phenomenal stadium shows in Rome and Milan this summer playing to over 400,000 fans, complete with a light show to match the occasion designed by his long term lighting ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Today Show Summer Concert Series Launches with Clay Paky B-EYE Luminaires

Today Show Summer Concert Series Launches with Clay Paky B-EYE Luminaires

The Summer Concert Series has launched on NBC's Today show and Clay Paky's A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights are being deployed on the live music segments, which air at least once a week on the iconic morning show. ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Harman's JBL VTX Line Arrays Go Into "X Mode" for the 2014 Miss USA Interviews

Harman's JBL VTX Line Arrays Go Into "X Mode" for the 2014 Miss USA Interviews

As 51 contestants competed in one of the country's most widely viewed beauty contests, Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Premier Sound Services (PSS) provided the sound reinforcement for the Miss USA Pageant. The event is part of Miss ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Hippotizer Dazzles at the 68th Tony Awards

Hippotizer Dazzles at the 68th Tony Awards

New York's beloved Radio City Music Hall saw the commencement of the 68th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, 2014, with a flamboyant Hugh Jackman hosting the show and a live broadcast televised on US network CBS. ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Johnny D's Serves Up a Superior Sound Experience with Harman's Soundcraft Si Expression 3

Johnny D's Serves Up a Superior Sound Experience with Harman's Soundcraft Si Expression 3

For a 300-seat nightclub that is 45 years old and doubles as a restaurant in David Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, Johnny D's required a renovation of its outdated sound system. While MJ Audio integrated the front end of the new ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Michael Meacham Creates "Pixel Ambience" with Chauvet Professional at Vanity Osaka

Michael Meacham Creates "Pixel Ambience" with Chauvet Professional at Vanity Osaka

With its concrete canyons and bustling crowded streets, Osaka resembles many other big international cities. In terms of culinary excellence though, Japan's third largest city is in a league of its own. Sometimes called "the food capital ...More

(7/29/2014)

-GLD Manages Front-of-House for Nina Persson Solo Tour

GLD Manages Front-of-House for Nina Persson Solo Tour

Cardigans' frontwoman, Nina Persson, recently completed a solo tour of Europe and the USA traveling with an Allen & Heath GLD-80 digital mixer to manage front-of-house and monitor sound.
Supplied by Swedish PA company, Parashoo ...
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(7/29/2014)

-Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Turns on the G-Spot

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Turns on the G-Spot

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas presented its lighting designer Christopher Lose with the ultimate challenge: find a strong and stable fixture that could be hung at the pool-side stage all year round. Lose's answer quickly ...More

(7/29/2014)

-Elation ELAR Q1 Color Changing Par Debuts at Xbox Media Event

Elation ELAR Q1 Color Changing Par Debuts at Xbox Media Event

When Microsoft video gaming brand Xbox briefs the press, let's just say they know how to get their attention. On June 9th, the Galen Center in Los Angeles became the center of the gaming universe as Xbox held a global briefing for media ...More

(7/28/2014)

-PLASA London Up 10% Over Last Year on Visitor Pre-Registrations -- Free Registration Open Through Tuesday

PLASA London Up 10% Over Last Year on Visitor Pre-Registrations -- Free Registration Open Through Tuesday

PLASA London delivered its largest-ever visitor promotion campaign over the last three days, generating almost 3,000 new registrations, and setting a record for registrations.
Commenting on the positive news, director of events < ...
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(7/28/2014)

-The Metropolitan Opera Begins Negotiations with Local 802

The Metropolitan Opera Begins Negotiations with Local 802

The Metropolitan Opera opens negotiations today with members of Local 802 of American Federations of Musicians -- one of 15 unions whose contracts expire on July 31 -- one imagines that the atmosphere will be less than ...More

(7/28/2014)

-NUAGE Road Tour and Nuendo Masterclass at RSPE Audio Solutions

NUAGE Road Tour and Nuendo Masterclass at RSPE Audio Solutions

A Yamaha NUAGE demo and Nuendo Masterclass will be held by top Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems and Steinberg engineers and hosted by RSPE Audio Solutions on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from 7:00 - 9:00pm at 4130 ...More

(7/28/2014)

-Red Dot Bestows Design Excellence Award on the d&b D80 Amplifier

Red Dot Bestows Design Excellence Award on the d&b D80 Amplifier

The Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen in Essen, Germany, has been recognizing design innovation since 1955, this was rebranded the Red Dot.
The awards recognize product design at the start of the new millennium. Function, environmental ...
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(7/28/2014)

-Advanced Announces Plans for New Corporate Headquarters and Executive Briefing Center

Advanced Announces Plans for New Corporate Headquarters and Executive Briefing Center

A Canadian AV systems integration company, Advanced announces that next month it will move to a new 25,000-sq.-ft. corporate headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. According to Advanced co-president David Weatherhead, the move ...More

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