By R.V. Baugus I first met Jimmy Earl, CVE, in the early 2000s when he was going through the chair rotation on the way to becoming the Association’s President (now Chair) in 2004-05. Jimmy was someone I was eager to meet, and in all honesty it was to be able to make the acquaint

By Anna Wong After over 40 years working in the facility management industry, Senior Associate Athletics Director of the Frank Erwin Center, Jimmy Earl, CVE, announced that he will retire at the end of September. Earl is only the third director of the Erwin Center since the building’s

By MIC Coalition The MIC Coalition, a broad-based group of associations representing millions of restaurants, bars, hotels, wineries, breweries, local radio and television broadcasters, digital music services, retailers and other venues that bring music to consumers, announced the add

By R.V. Baugus Venue Professional magazine will publish in a digital format only through the end of IAVM’s fiscal year of March 31, 2021. The decision comes as the Association — like most of its members — faces challenges in producing events, a key component in IAVM

By R.V. Baugus On September 1, venues were awash in red to symbolically unite and raise public and media awareness in support of the live events sector that has suffered so greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. Under #WeMakeEvents, a coalition of trade bodies, business, union