Denver pizza entrepreneur Mark Huebner isn't the only Coloradan scoring points for engaging in a "Verbal Fight/Physical Fight" on television these days. Crested Butte's Heidi Montag -- along with her fluffy-haired weenie of a husband, Spencer Pratt -- is a contestant on the lamely named NBC reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, which debuted last night.
The show is like Survivor, only starring Lou Diamond Phillips, American Idol reject Sanjaya Malakar and Rod Blagojevich's wife,
As we alluded to yesterday in our post about Ozric Tentacles setting up shop in Fort Collins, C-Rayz Walz (aka Waleed Shabazz) is indeed in Denver. Following up several reported sightings of him around town, we have confirmed that the New York rapper, who was most recently hanging his hat in Indiana, is currently kicking up dust in the Mile High City. "I am in Colorado right now," Walz confirms via e-mail. "I am still fighting the court case in Indiana among other life defining lessons. A FREERa
Photo: Gary IsaacsBefore heading off across the pond for a sizable nineteen-day jaunt through Europe in April, Slim Cessna's Auto Club will be crisscrossing Colorado in the company of the Reverend Horton Heat. Kicking things off at the Ogden Theatre this Friday night alongside Reno Divorce, the band will accompany the good Reverend and his crew to Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs and a handful of dates in the mountains. Full dates posted after the jump.
The first day of the four-day Crested Butte Land Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today. And unlike some local food and wine festivals where our homegrown chefs are snubbed, the Crested Butte powwow, which includes wine seminars, wine walks, chef dinners, grand tastings and gourmet picnics, parades four of Denver's top culinary chiefs: Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts); Troy Guard (TAG); Tyler Wiard (Elway's Cherry Creek); and Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca D'Italia, Osteria Marco and Bones). In
Lori MidsonFogo de Chao may specialize in meat, but that pie looks like just what I needed.
Today in Cafe Society:
-Denver welcomes a new Brazilian steakhouse. It looks like a great spot to take a vegetarian on a date.
-Crested Butte Land and Trust Food and Wine Festival is underway.
-That candy looks like ice pops. Brillant! Or is it...
Today in The Latest Word:
-Victim of attack by hit men snakes arrested.
-Jared Polis is enjoying the hell out of being a Congressman.
-Do you have Hep
It's been at least a week since our fair state made it on any Most Livable, Charming, Fittest or Drunkest list. So thank heavens for the folks at ForbesTraveler, the "luxury travel authority from inspiration to reservation." Its latest ingenious and largely predictable compilation of "America's Prettiest Towns" does not snub our picturesque state.
Well, not much.
