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In a bygone era, men with fedoras and skinny ties roamed the streets of Vegas, looking for action and engaging their classy vices. That era is mostly gone, but today, if only for a day, the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival is bringing it back. “What can be expected is a lot of fun,” says Mimi Allen of Smoker Friendly International, the company that’s putting on the event. Although cigars are the focus, she explains, there’s also a lot of other stuff going on: beer and wine tastings, live music, various drawings (included in the admission price) where you can win things like a motorcycle or an ATV (and a bunch more stuff) and even an appearance from formidable billiards professional Jackie Karol.
“You can challenge her,” Allen says – if you don’t mind losing to a girl. And, of course, there will be plenty of cigars: Twenty come in a gift basket included in the price of admission.
“The basket’s valued at about $300,” says Allen, noting that while similar cigar fests, like Las Vegas’s Big Smoke, will run you upwards of $500, this one costs $100 ($150 VIP). It all goes down from noon to 7 p.m. today at the Millennium Harvest House Gardens, at 1345 28th Street in Boulder. For more information or to get tickets, go to www.rmcigarfest.com.
Sun., Aug. 29, 12-7 p.m., 2010
