One Offs

Carlos Santana proposed to his girlfriend, drummer Cindy Blackman, onstage at First Midway Bank Amphitheatre near Chicago July 9 after Blackman had a drum solo …

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean announced that $1.2 million a year from the city’s hotel/motel tax will be appropriated to Gaylord Entertainment to help fix its flood-damaged Grand Ole Opry House, according to the Tennessean …

AEG President Tim Leiweke, along with developer Eli Broad and shopping mall magnate Rick Caruso, are leading a September fundraiser for a streetcar project that would connect L.A. Live with cultural attractions and theatres in other parts of the city, according to the L.A. Business Journal.