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This year’s PCA Convention & Trade Show has been very different and very familiar for me all at the same time. It is different in…

I returned with Day 1 lunch ravenous. No one but Brian was in the booth. After laying out everyone else’s personal pizza on their respective…

I’m a creature of habit, enjoying familiar things and proven plans that work. This year is my ninth trade show, and looking back over the…

This morning marks the start of the first-ever PCA Convention & Trade Show, at least in a name, as the event was formerly known as the IPCPR…

Brooks Whittington and I will be back to talk about some things we are actually looking forward to at the 2021 PCA Convention & Trade…

On Saturday, we published a review of what I believed was the PDR 1878 Recordando a Santiago Capa Sun Grown Robusto. As was mentioned in…

This time next month, I—along with much of the U.S. cigar industry—will be in Las Vegas for the cigar industry’s annual trade show. Normally, this…

After waking up early on the third and last day of the Tobacco Plus Expo 2021 and running around frantically for four hours trying to…

My second full day covering the TPE 2021 Convention did not start with nearly as much chaos as the previous day and I was able to…

So you want to know what the TPE trade show floor looks like. Here’s a 360° view walkthrough of the cigar portion of the trade show…

I expected my first trip to cover an event in 15 months to encounter issues. I was not wrong. My travel days always seem to start out early, and…