Conventions

We've been wanting to try this place since moving up to The Lakes over a year ago. In need of a run to Lee's (which is in the same shopping center) on a Tuesday seemed like the perfect time.…

It’s a joke: International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades spells … ICAST.  (“I cast …”, geddit?).  Actually amateur rod-and-line folk don’t get into this gig, it’s a trade-only event featuring products and innovations like the Yum Soft Plastic Bass Attractant.  We hope the fish appreciate all the state-of-the-art technology being lavished on them.  As an added incentive to ordering stuff, every buyer got to participate in a raffle for tickets to the Crocodile Bay Resort in Costa Rica.  What kind of lure do you need to catch crocodiles?  Actually you just stick out a leg …

I am so sad to have to write this. For the 3 years that my son was in HS we spent almost every Tuesday morning before school here for breakfast. Since then, he's graduated and gone on to college…

5,000 or more theater-owners and other motion-picture industry pros, including a few major stars like Dennis Quaid and Jennifer Lopez. Much talk of upcoming movies (screenings!), Oscars. Spread of 3-D was a hot topic. Also movie theft and copyright protection etc. Increasing attention being paid to foreign distribution, with US revenues maybe close to their ceiling right about now.

Three day show, four-day conference for cruiseline service owners, operators, buyers, plus shipbuilders, refitters, maintenance etc. Just under 1000 exhibitors. Big focus on destinations, adventure and discovery packaging. Also passenger handling and new computer-to-cellphone information systems, cashless cruising, design schemes for terminals. No-one playing shuffleboard…