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Jan 16, 2025 | 
exhibitcitynews.com | Ray Smith
(image of the CFP Championship trophy, courtesy of College Football Playoffs)By Ray Smith, Exhibit City NewsPerhaps, considering its bid to bring a College Football Playoff championship game to Allegiant Stadium, it should be renamed the Las Vegas Convention, Visitors and Sports Authority.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Bret Pimentel |Ray Smith |Brigham Young
Keywordsmusical theater, orchestras, woodwind doubling, musicCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractCrazy for You is a Broadway-style stage musical by Ken Ludwig. The show, which premiered in 1992, uses songs written by George and Ira Gershwin for musicals in the 1930’s. In January and February, 2003, the Brigham Young University Department of Theatre and Media Arts and School of Music produced the show.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Tyler Jensen |Ray Smith |Brigham Young
Keywordsaural learning, theoretical learning, educational system, jazzCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractThe study of jazz is a relatively new pedagogy in our educational system. Much of what has been established has been the result of applying classical and existing pedagogical practices to the subject of jazz. The majority of this teaching approach is theoretical in nature, using knowledge of chords, structures and designed systems to analyze and perform music.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
exhibitcitynews.com | Ray Smith
By Ray Smith, Exhibit City NewsA trunkful of lasting memories can be traced to Major League Baseball ballparks, and not all of them are no-hitters by Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax, or historic home runs by Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Sometimes it’s a monumental concert like the Beatles thrilling their U.S. fans at Shea Stadium, the Rolling Stones rocking Candlestick Park, Pink Floyd putting on a blazing show at Anaheim Stadium, Elton John’s iconic performance at Dodger Stadium.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
exhibitcitynews.com | Ray Smith
by Ray Smith, Exhibit City NewsIf it means saving $500 or $1,000 in broker fees, Hank Duran, president of Las Vegas-based HD Team Transport, is not in the least averse to knocking door to door at warehouses searching for shippers in need of his trucking service. After a 40-year career, the wave of rising freight transportation costs combined with plummeting shipping rates is crushing Duran’s business and has him gasping for air.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
exhibitcitynews.com | Ray Smith
By Ray Smith, Exhibit City NewsJennifer Byrn was soundly impressed with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s sales pitch at IMEX America, a global meetings and events show held Oct. 8-10 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center, where hundreds of countries and cities competed for tourism business. Las Vegas boasts the nation’s No. 1-ranked convention center and three of the top five. Transportation is a breeze compared with other major convention cities.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
exhibitcitynews.com | Ray Smith
(photos provided by Apogee)By Ray Smith, Exhibit City NewsLike a baseball team making a run at the World Series, Apogee Exhibits and Environments is bolstering its “bench strength” with the acquisition of Exhibits and More, a New York company specializing in museum exhibit design, fabrication and installation.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
reforma.com | Ray Smith
05 MIN 00 SEGRay A. Smith / THE WALL STREET JOURNALNueva York, Estados Unidos (20 septiembre 2024) .-05:00 hrsChevron (izq.) coloca a sus trabajadores dispositivos que avisas cuando es hora de rehidratarse, y los uniformes de UPS tienen tecnología de refrigeración que mantiene las telas 15 grados más fresca. Crédito: CHEVRON Y UPSAlgunos trabajadores que laboran a altas temperaturas al aire libre o en fábricas o bodegas están recibiendo cierto alivio gracias a la alta tecnología.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
exhibitcitynews.com | Ray Smith
By Ray Smith, Exhibit City NewsNobody doubts the Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix easily exceeds the $250 million economic impact required by Nevada law for special events advertising in the Strip corridor. Whether it generated the $1.4 billion projection from last year’s inaugural race is a bone that’s been picked bare by a few business owners who claim the construction mess and traffic limitations cost them millions in lost revenue.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
exhibitcitynews.com | Ray Smith
By Ray Smith, Exhibit City NewsAt the very least, Conex Exhibition Services should send a “Thank You” note to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), which awarded the Florida-based company a $288,000 contract to design and build an exhibition booth for WTM London in November. The convention authority approved the contract at its Sept. 10 regular board meeting, the fourth time in the past six months that Conex has been chosen to put Las Vegas on display at major travel tradeshows.
