While the Summer Olympic Games are taking place in France, the investors behind the Hall U Need leisure center concept are eying “The City of Light” for expansion. Hall U Need is a unique French concept inspired by North American “entertainment” complexes. After the success of its first site in Lille, which has already welcomed […]

Don MacBrayne, who spent most of his career with Brunswick before co-founding The Summit entertainment centers in Colorado, has passed away. He suffered a stroke after undergoing heart bypass surgery, friends tell BCM. MacBrayne was considered a guru of center management, an executive who understood the numbers and sincerely cared about his employees. Many social-media […]

Ventola Projects, a United Kingdom-based specialist in LED lighting, LED displays and various technical services, has announced a strategic collaboration with German tenpin manufacturer Funk Bowling. As part of the agreement, Ventola Projects will provide technical services and supply advanced LED lighting and display technology for Funk products. 

The full schedule has been unveiled for the 19th annual Southwest Bowling Proprietors Show, which will take place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center in Denton, Texas, on the far north side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The opening day will include the Texas and Louisiana state meetings and conclude […]

The inaugural International Bowling Media Association Visual Media Awards, comprising works published during the 2023 calendar year, have been announced, and BCM’s Michelle Johnson earned the award for still photography in news feature/documentary accompaniment. The winning photo is shown on the August issue’s Up Front page, depicting Andrew Amore, the inaugural recipient of the Daroll and Dolores Frewing Scholarship, […]

Scott Willoughby was found dead this morning after being crushed by a pinsetting machine at a two-lane facility he was working to restore and reopen in Esmond, North Dakota. Willoughby was the owner of the Esmond Bar, and the bowling alley is attached to the bar. The Benson County Sheriff said he was alone at the […]

With the goal of quickly moving expiring Scholarship Management and Account Reporting for Tenpins unassigned funds to recipients and keeping the funds within the same geographic area, the United States Bowling Congress has announced a policy change to provide new bonus scholarships in the fall to active SMART recipients. Now, when SMART-deposited unassigned funds in […]

Azia Martin has been honored as the 2024 recipient of the Daroll and Dolores Frewing Scholarship for children or grandchildren of Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America members. Martin, the granddaughter of Linda Gamble, proprietor of Paradise Lanes Family Entertainment Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was brought to the stage this morning at the Gaylord Rockies […]

The International Bowling Campus Youth Development team has developed a new “Youth Resource Guide” for use by bowling centers and United States Bowling Congress associations. The guide is designed to aid in the creation of new youth bowling programs in local communities and was created to help bowling centers and USBC associations work together to […]