Beautycon began in 2012, as an insider event for about thirty vloggers.
"I think of it as more an insider event," said George Fertitta, president of the ad agency Margeotes/Fertitta & Partners.
On Thursday night, at an insider event I'd organized in my second but closely related life as the founder of StrictlyVC, I interviewed famed entrepreneur-investor Marc Andreessen, whose most recent headline-grabbing maneuver (intentionally or not) was to take a Twitter break one week ago.
In the past few years, Google's annual developers conference has grown from being an insiders' event for software geeks to one in which big announcements about new hardware like Google Glass are made.
And so, to share with other plebian, non-film industry folks what I've learned about sampling Sundance's extraordinary roster of indie films, panel discussions with story-tellers extraordinaire and related events, here's a non-insiders guide to getting tickets to the estimated 650 public screenings at the consummate insiders' event: the Sundance Film Festival.
On a recent day Beck plugged the evening's Insider Extreme event and advertised LifeLock, the identity-theft company, in a particularly personal way: "I wish I could protect my children [my daughter's] got a boyfriend in New York City–I can't lock my children up, but I can lock my computer up.
6 30 pm - 8 30 pm: The National Journal folks celebrate their relaunch at their Insider's Event "honoring the congressional and political influencers behind the National Journal Insiders Poll" [600 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037].
Attended largely by industry insiders, the event's seminars may be a closed shop but all the club nights and live music events are open to the public.
The hotel's co-owner, David Chang, has asked him to design two bars and a few cabanas (to be run by Amanda Demme, the widow of the director Ted Demme, who organizes insider Hollywood events like an Oscar party whose hosts were the agents Patrick Whitesell and Rick Yorn).
This new culture encompasses the arts, from performance art to life writing (as expressed by insiders); sporting events; and the influence policies have had on the dominant culture, whether reflected in the Washington subway system or the extra-wide toilet stalls beloved by luggage toters and nursing mothers.
Known for his burlesque takes on insider-Washington events, Milbank asked if the current good economic news had made Donohue regret his prediction that President Barack Obama's policies would destroy the free enterprise system.
