There are consumer shows like this all over the country, usually held in a single venue. Here, we're familiar with scrapbook conventions, like at the South Towne Expo Center, that draw about 13,000 people. Houston has a national quilting festival for one week in October, and it brings in 150,000 women from around the world.

It's an opportunity to get together with girlfriends and do what you love and learn new things.

Everything that is happening in the country at the moment is putting pressure on the chiefs.

Participating in National Organizing Day events in communities across the country is an ideal way for Stonewall chapters and members to participate in the Democratic Party's effort to organize for victory all over the country. By making a small effort in our hometowns on April 29, we can further a national effort that will deliver a Democratic victory in November and substantive change that will follow Election Day.

I think the summer is going to be very glamorous.

Without the bigger designers here you are not going to get the models here, you are not going to get the European buyers and press here.