Kanye West is a stand-up guy. Literally.
He got a social media thrashing—call it a Tweeting beating—by insisting that all attendees at a recent concert in Melbourne stand up to show their enthusiasm for his event.
It seemed he just couldn't sto...
Special events news this week includes promotions at VDA Productions, a 60-person ice bucket challenge from CORT in Las Vegas, and new leadership at Vok Dams China.
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Ulrike Ellmann of Vok Dams returns to Germany after years running the company's China operations, and the town of Vail, Colo., is looking for proposals to stage its 2015 special events