With Easter and Passover this weekend, it seems appropriate that we have renewed our relationship with the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies, the Baltimore-based organization that explores religious differences in order to foster tolerance and understanding. As part of the ICJS’s expanded mission to include Muslim theology, the keynote speaker at its annual Manekin-Clark […]
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We’re looking forward to the next few months promoting three of our favorite nonprofit clients’ annual fundraising events, each benefiting a worthy cause. On April 25, Crawfish for Cancer will host its third annual crawfish boil in Washington, DC. Based on this tradition that began at Williams College, Crawfish for Cancer raises funds for Multiple
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The Maryland Home and Garden Show concluded on Sunday after two weekends of beautifully landscaped gardens, home improvement contractors and DIY seminars inside the Maryland State Fairgrounds. With two snowstorms in two weeks, tens of thousands of visitors and dozens of print, online and television media were eager for a hint of spring. Stories about
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Over the past two weeks while Boston saw record snow, we saw record media for the New England Boat Show. The nine-day show wrapped up on Sunday and featured 800 boats, over 100 seminars and special appearances from the captains of National Geographic Channel’s Wicked Tuna. Snow is usually the enemy of show promoters, but
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After returning from his stay on the International Space Station, NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman landed at the Maryland Science Center yesterday. During his three-hour visit, he captivated visitors with stories and videos of his wild adventures in space. The press was wild about Reid too. WBAL, WMAR, WBFF and WJZ interviewed him and The Baltimore
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The New England Boat Show begins this weekend and move-in is this week—800 boats being loaded into the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center… in the middle of a historic month of snow. Today, in the midst of our move-in media pitching, a boat got stuck in a snow bank…in the middle of downtown Boston. Yeah,
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Visitors were busy with boats in Baltimore and customers were crazy for crafts in Chantilly, Virginia at our two successful client events this past weekend! Attendance at both the Baltimore Boat Show and the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival in Chantilly were up—17% at the Boat Show and 3% at the Sugarloaf show. In addition to high
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After successfully working with the 2015 Motor Trend International Auto Show two weeks ago, we’re moving from four wheels to two. Our newest client is the Timonium Motorcycle Show coming to the Maryland State Fairgrounds in February. We are promoting the three-day event (featuring hundreds of cycles and lots of celebrity appearances and seminars) by
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This past weekend we rang in the New Year with 400 new cars, four days of TV, plenty of print media, and tens of thousands of visitors at the Motor Trend International Auto Show in Baltimore. WBAL, WJZ, WBFF and WMAR previewed the show and highlighted the exotic cars on display. The Baltimore Sun, WKND,
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Just in time for our holiday gift wrapping—we just wrapped up our fall season of consumer show promotion: seven events in five markets in the past three months. Total attendance for the shows increased over last year, with at least three recording record numbers of visitors. The media was present (get it?) with lots of