And now for footage only a mother could love … Here are hilarious outtakes from VenueConnect 2012 attendees trying their hands at trumpet, trombone and drum playing! Thanks to everyone who participated and helped us publicize the VenueConnect 2013 host city, legendary New Orlean

As general manager of the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Carl Adkins understands that everything else takes a back seat to safety and security at public assembly venues of any kind. If he did not believe that way then chances are good he would be working in another profession. Over the year

Dean Justice, CFE, knows his way around the sprawling University of Texas at Austin campus. But ever since Justice retired in 1990 from overseeing the Frank Erwin Center that he opened in 1977, one particular area has become especially near and dear to him: the archives of the Briscoe