By Sarah McAlister Kerry Painter, CVE, director of the Raleigh Convention and Performing Arts Complex, announced that Jim Lavery, general manager of the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, will retire at the end of March after a 40-year career. Michelle Bradley will serve as a

By Andy Malt Plans to build the UK’s biggest arena venue in Manchester have been announced by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff’s Oak View Group. If it gets planning permission, it will hold 2,500 more people than the UK’s current largest, the nearby 21,000 capacity Manchester Arena. Plans