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New Conference Center Just in Time for Surge of Business

March 21, 2012

According to an LA Times article, conferences and conventions are expected to be big business in 2012. Well, then, isn’t it apropos that Fairplex just opened the new, state-of-the-art Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center? The $28 million, 85,000-square-foot conference center opened in January but was formally introduced to business and community partners at a grand opening…

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore”

March 1, 2012

Fairplex’s assistant director of development Laura Smolka-Gallardo is our guest blogger this week: Do you remember reading the beloved limericks in Shel Silverstein’s books as a child? (Do you know where the sidewalk ends?) Or perhaps you remember watching the Halloween episode of “The Simpsons” when Homer, Marge, and Bart recreate Edgar Allen Poe’s famous…

I Love the Smell of Tomatoes in the Morning

October 21, 2011

Actually, it will be in the afternoon but don’t get all red in the face. You can get red all over! It’s the Tomato Battle, happening right here at Fairplex tomorrow (Oct. 22). Their motto – Beer. Bands. Tomato Fight. It’s known as the biggest food fight of your life. What a great way to…

Get Your Scare On At Nightmare!

October 14, 2011

If you are a big chicken but love to test your scaredy-cat-ometer like I do, then you must get your shaky bones over to Fairplex’s annual Halloween frightfest Nightmare…A Haunted Attraction. As we like to say, this year, the Nightmare is in your own backyard! Mmmuaaaaahhhhhaaaahhhhaaa! Seriously, this is Nightmare’s third year and includes five…

Warm up those fingers…

July 28, 2011

…because the Los Angeles World Guitar Show is coming to the Fairplex this weekend! It’s a great chance to sell, trade and buy some six-strings. You can even get your instrument appraised if you like. Anything guitar-related will be there: amps, repair companies, memorabilia, banjos – whatever strums your strings. And before the weekend, you…

Help out our “kids”

July 25, 2011

The Learning Centers at Fairplex cordially invite you…to dinner! With an accompanying auction on September 29 at our very own Sheraton Fairplex Hotel, the Child Development Center at Fairplex 20th Annual Dinner & Auction hopes to raise money to continue its mission of educating and preparing today’s children, their families and tomorrow’s teachers to succeed…

Chugga-chugga…

July 21, 2011

Choo! Choo! It’s not a car, it’s not a plane, it’s… The Great Train Expo. Happening this weekend in Building 9, this traveling collection will wow you with operating model railroads, train dealers, collectors, hands-on exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, trains big enough to play on, door prizes and the Fairplex’s own Garden Railroad will be up…