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Don your red dresses! Southern California is hosting the biggest public events for the Lunar New Year in the U.S. We celebrate the Year of the Goat or Sheep, depending on how you interpret "yang". We consider ourselves lucky to have such easy access to so many exciting, public, global events right in our backyard! What an inspiration! New Year Lion/©Caruso Affiliated You can't miss it. Increasingly every year, Los Angeles is really getting into the mood! Our malls - here the beautiful Grove - feature lanterns, dragons and wishing trees.  The Grove Central Street with Lantern/©Marion Renk-Rosenthal The God of Wealth/©Caruso Affiliated - hank you to Caruso Affiliated for sharing the photos! Get in the mood! Here some pointers: Those born in 1919, 1931, 1943, 1967, 1979, 1991 or 2003 are goats, who can count their lucky colors as brown, red and purple. Their characters are supposedly kind and peaceable, Creative, thoughtful, frank and honest whi...

One of the biggest parties in the world is happening right now, Mardi Gras, in one of our very favorite cities in the U.S.: New Orleans. We decided to check how the city is doing almost 10 years after Katrina and 5 years after the worst oil spill in U.S. history. We talked to the Convention and Visitors Bureau, ISES NOLA and Event Pros Take Action and their local partner, St. Bernard Project. We contacted The Data Center, an organization that tracks economic and population statistics in Louisiana and publishes The New Orleans Index. New Orleans Population decrease.   The population of New Orleans fell from 484,674 before Katrina (April 2000) to an estimated 230,172 after Katrina (July 2006) — a decrease of 254,502 people and a loss of over half of the city’s population. By July of 2012, the population was back up to 369,250 — 76% of what it was in 2000. Source: The Data Center, August 28, 2014 The Data Center examined economic factors, population inclusion aspects acro...

Get out your boom box, the Week of Love is here! We are bringing you the best music for Valentine's! As if we did not know it: according to a recent study " background music gives young Japanese adults a more favorable impression of conversation partners of the opposite sex for the first meeting during conversation for konkatsu". (Source: Psychology of Music) But seriously, the study reveals the changes in the neurochemical system in the brain. We fall in love a lot more easily when the right tune is playing in the background. DJ Lee Dyson has noticed the impact on the dance floor - and just in time for the Week of Love he has compiled a list of love songs that will make you swoon! However, we all have been in that bad spot in life where love songs are just unbearable! If you recently have noticed that no amount of kissing will change your frog into anything else, keep on reading! Lee Dyson: "I want to make sure we don’t forget a...

photo by www.CourtneyLindbergPhotography.com We have finally found the perfect woman! Happy to introduce our new Director of Business Development: Nikki Wilbur Contact Information: nwilbur@eventworks.com Phone: (323) 321.1793 Connect with Nikki on LinkedIn ! As Director of Business Development, Nikki will be attending many industry functions on our behalf. As part of the EventWorks Family, she will also assume Event Producer duties. We "clicked" right away when Nikki walked in the door. She comes with serious credentials. She is a Certified Meeting Planner with a degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, and 8+ years of experience working in our industry. As you can see, she is also fearless! This is Nikki, dangling over the rim of the Grand Canyon! - and yes, we did get all maternal and told her not to repeat that type of adventure! Photo provided courtesy of Nikki Wilbur Things you should know about Nikki: *In...