I just saw this while catching up on some Web reading tonight: Michael Hough Passes Away. Hough was one of the, if not the, guys to go to for trade show information. Click through to the notice for more about his many accomplishments. What a blow...

Clear,which screens airline passengers, has announced a ...

And then there's entertainment that is the luncheon. Behold, the Vegetable Orchestra! It doesn't look like they're available for events, but you never know.

According to this article, event planning is one of the five hot careers you can have without getting an MBA. But their definition of event planning is basically party planning. It's not all fun and games, folks. Someday, people will get what it...

According to this article, there were some stowaways of the rodent variety on a recent United Airlines flight from Washington to Beijing. Talk about gross, not to mention dangerous. A snip: ...

I've seen artists do a painting as entertainment at a couple of events, but I had never thought of having one do a portrait of an award winner as part of the (usually boring) ceremony. That's what Art Explosion's Michael Ostaski says he can do, in...

I've written before about the "bigger is better" syndrome when it comes to meetings. Now this article about the CES show reinforces my feeling that sometimes, bigger just gets in the way of better, especially when it comes to trade shows. A snip...

Or if you do, don't use the glasses the hotel leaves out for you by the sink. According to this video, several hotel housekeepers were caught on hidden video just spraying the dirty glasses with some sort of cleaner (clearly labeled "do not drink"...

Scott Briscoe posts some interesting thoughts about trade shows on the Acronym blog. A snip: ...

Bedbugs may not be conversation fodder for polite folks, but they do seem to have made a comeback in recent years. Fortunately, I read in today's Boston Globe that there now are special bedbug-sniffing dogs that hotels can rent out to ensure their...