Chapter 1 I stood in front of the baggage carousel, luggage dropped and spun around, but mine are always last. Not because I’m a glass half full kind of guy, but because my cases are huge and require special handling. If they even come out on the regular belt. Often, they drop across the vast […]
It was an exclusive executive party in Orlando, Fl. An early spring had sprung, and big, puffy clouds scooted overhead. The brick courtyard stretched in back of the five-star hotel; French doors spilled participants onto a manicured garden. High top tables with tiny tea candles and long white cloths dotted the patio, and a portable […]
The ballroom at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas stretched around me. Gaudy Louis XIV chandeliers hung from the ceiling and glittered against the mirrored walls. Around the perimeter of the ballroom waited a single file of participants, snaking around and out the double mirrored doors, stanchions keeping everyone in a tight neat line. In […]
In this time of COVID-19, focus on our immediate community is priority. With that in mind, we’re launching a new podcast with a hyper-local focus on our surrounding neighborhood, the Patterson Park area of Baltimore. Here’s the first installment of the Podcast: a short call to artists and community feedback about what they’d like to […]
Chapter 2 My chicken phone clucked as I stepped from the US Capitol into the bright sunshine of a perfect summer evening. On the line was Thomasz (Americanized to Thomas) Pompowski, and he told me he was a reporter for FAKT News, out of Warsaw, Poland. I’m ADHD. The noise from the street, Thomas’ soft […]
Chapter 1: From film to the internet The year was 2005, and Flckr was an infant. The internet was clunky, and America Online popular. MySpace hadn’t taken the world by storm. Facebook had just started, but nobody knew about it. Wire services ruled the news media, along with a handful of broadcast networks. Fox News […]
About 16 months ago, Matthew, my mom, and I were eating dinner. My mom had some health issues after falling and breaking a few bones, and Matthew and I were living near Orlando, Florida. We were visiting her home in Sterling, VA after driving to the area ahead of a major hurricane hitting our home […]
As the months tick by under the shadow of COVID-19, and schedules are still on hold, it’s easy to think our time as event professionals has ended. It’s hard to remain hopeful when you look at the news. Daily your bank account shrinks, and politicians either focus on their re-election, or worry about the postal […]
As COVID-19 continues to murder the event industry, we are all watching more television. For me, I’m addicted to two shows: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Project Runway. Both contest-centered shows remind me of my dad’s most important rule of business: “If they want crap, give them crap.” (I’ve actually changed the quote slightly to make […]
