The NRFL project has been extant for two years, with Rugby Law having hosted talent combines in Minnesota and Los Angeles as it looks to create a professional league.
Each week, Ms. Boulanger hosts Talent Tuesday, in which Opower employees bring their laptops and, fueled by free pizza and blaring iTunes, comb through their personal LinkedIn networks for friends and former colleagues matching Opower openings.
Asked if he would like to do something more challenging than hosting talent contests and gambling shows, he counters with the comment that reality television is "the only ticket in town at the minute", and that "once you have a show with your name in the title, you should be happy with that".
Before the label, Let's Play House was a no-holds-barred party hosting talent like Morgan Geist and DJ Kaos at rogue spaces around Brooklyn.
If any local schools, community centers, or venues are hosting talent shows, you might consider entering those, too.
For the second year in a row many will watch an award ceremony bereft of people of color, masked in the hosting talents of the great Chris Rock, and the handful of minority presenters.
Mr Rishkin said Russia should instead host a talent competition entitled the "Voice of Eurasia" in the future.
US innovators Joey Beltram, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, have all played, while current nights host techno talent from all around the world.
Out with a bang Shawn Levy's forthcoming comedy 'Date Night' is attracting a host of talent, with Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Taraji P Henson, Common and Jimmi Simpson all putting their names down for a night out.
But as you gazed across the numerous empty patches of land dotted across the festival site, even in a year when such a host of talent was on show, you had to wonder, somewhat forlornly, about the future of the Big Chill.
