One-Offs

Artisan Transport, M+M Group, Hudson Theatre, Britney, Marcie Allen Cardwell, Barack Obama, Wolfgang’s Vault, Todd Patrick, First Mariner Arena…

Industry vet Brian Higgins has opened a new Chicago-based transportation company called Artisan Transport and has the Cirque du Soleil "Delirium" tour as an account …

The M+M Group has landed an exclusive promotion agreement with San Bernardino, Calif.’s new Hudson Theatre …

Mel Tillis has been invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and the 74-year-old singer will be inducted June 9th …

Barack Obama had a recent run-in with Britney Spears (actually, with an explicit painting of Spears at a Virginia gallery that was covered up before the presidential candidate entered the building) …

Wolfgang’s Vault has announced it will revive rock criticism forerunner Crawdaddy! as an online magazine ….

The New York Times recently featured NYC promoter Todd Patrick, who uses a blog and MySpace to announce warehouse and parking lot shows by acts like Animal Collective and Trans Am …

The Maryland Stadium Authority commissioned a study on Baltimore’s First Mariner Arena three years ago and the results are in: The 45-year-old arena is "operationally inefficient and is increasingly becoming functionally obsolete," according to the Baltimore Sun …

As mentioned months ago, the next Tim McGraw / Faith Hill tour is sponsored by Jeep, but it was recently dubbed one of the biggest tour endorsement deals in country history – not a bad start for CAA’s new sponsorship exec, Marcie Allen Cardwell.