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It's A Spiceworld After All.(concert audio and visual systems)
December 1, 1998... Seeing the Spice Girls backstage at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium, where they have not yet been made up and are dressed in sweat pants and jeans, it's difficult to pick them out as the biggest pop stars on the planet. But come showtime, the quartet's much-celebrated girl power transforms...

An Otherworldly World.(television program costume design)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1998... The life of a costume designer on daytime drama is usually about the grind--shopping, pulling wardrobe, building a piece here or there, five episodes a week, 52 weeks a year. Every so often come the big events that need something more: it could be a wedding, a time-travel dream sequence, or,...

ETC Acquires Irideon From Vari-Lite Inc.
December 1, 1998... Following a difficult first year in the rough-and-tumble stock market, which has seen the firm refocus on its core businesses, Dallas-based Vari-Lite Inc. has sold its architectural lighting company, Irideon, to Middleton, WI-based Electronic Theatre Controls. The sale allows Vari-Lite to...

AES 98.(Audio Engineering Society)
December 1, 1998... "AES Goes Gold" was the theme of this year's Audio Engineering Society confab, partly because the organization is celebrating its 50th year, and partly because it was being held in the home of the Golden Gate, San Francisco. Over 18,000 engineers and designers panning for audio gold descended...

DATA MANAGEMENT/INVENTORY/BUSINESS SOFTWARE.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1998... ARABESQUE SOFTWARE AND CONSULTING RPM for Windows95 is a complete software solution for tracking rentals and productions in the entertainment industry. Features business management under an easy-to-use Windows interface. Allows user to view data in multiple windows at the same time, edit...