Meeting News - August 11, 2008 - (Page 8) What’s Up @ MeetingNews.com Web Top 5: July 27-August 2, 2008 Soapbox Harboring Ambitions in Long Beach Posted by Terri Hardin For the short visits that are conventions and trade shows, the Long Beach Convention Center complex is perfect. Flanked by a Westin, a Renaissance, and a Hyatt Regency, it is across the street from the Pike dining and entertainment complex and the harborside Aquarium of the Pacific, a world-class aquarium featuring LEED Silver certification and three irrepressible sea otters. I was also treated to some of the best grub this side of the Rockies, including lunch at L’Opera on Pine Avenue, dinner at Sir Winston’s (aboard the Queen Mary), and Tracht’s on Ocean Avenue—the new signature restaurant of celebrity chef Susan Tracht in the Renaissance hotel. We also chowed down at the Yard House (signature onion rings), La Muse Cafe (signature crepes), and the Omelet Inn (signature you guessed it). Next February, Long Beach will be the new home of the Technology, Entertainment, and Design Conference (TED)—that confluence of world-rocking eggheads—which has previously met upstate in Monterey. Coincidentally, Monterey also has a world-class aquarium. Perhaps TED chose Long Beach because eggheads like sea otters. #1STARWOOD OPENS FIRST ECO-FRIENDLY 'ELEMENT' #2 Drug Marketers Ban Event Swag #3 Harrah’s Uses New Tool to Customize Sales Collateral for Las Vegas Planners #4 Philadelphia CVB Courts On-the-Go Conventioneers with Mobile Web Site #5 StarCite Names Gregory J. Dukat CEO The Web Top 5 and other breaking stories, feature articles, and blogs are available 24/7 at MeetingNews.com. is PROUD to bring back THE PLANNERS’CHOICE AWARDS! YOU have the opportunity to VOTE for the excellent meeting services and facilities that have made your meetings GREAT. Winners will be announced in the December 1, 2008 issue of MeetingNews Vote Today. Vote Often. www.meetingnews.com/plannerschoice 8 MeetingNews August 11, 2008 www.meetingnews.com http://MeetingNews.com http://www.misoapbox.com/ http://MeetingNews.com http://www.meetingnews.com/plannerschoice http://www.meetingnews.com
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