The guys behind the wildly successful Cherry Creek bar-bistro Brix are set to take over the lease of Nectar, the forever-struggling space below Brix. The subtext here: It’s gonna be PARTYTIME!
The new lease gives Brix the right to use the big back patio, which will rock when the weather clears. The Nectar space, which some of you might remember as the Mocha Cafe, will become a lounge-bar. It also has a huge outdoor patio area. Downstairs Brix, as it will be called, will open in late November, Wednesdays through Saturdays, serving apps and sandwiches with a DJ every night after 9:30. With the patios, bars and dining rooms, Brix will be one of the biggest hangouts in the Creek. I bet it’ll rock.
Brix man Charles Master agrees. “Dude, this is going to be so awesome!”
Drunk again
Denver’s Frank Rich has a hit book out – but it’s not getting in the way of his drinking.
He’s the publisher of Denver-based Modern Drunkard magazine, circulation 50,000. The book is a collection of all he’s learned from drinking and writing: “The Modern Drunkard: A Handbook for Drinking in the 21st Century.”
Rich usually sleeps till noon, but he’s up at dawn these days doing radio interviews. “I do some interviews at 5 a.m.,” he says. “I haven’t even gone to sleep yet, and usually I’m pretty drunk. But that adds to the whole mythos.”
Rich says the book is a “guide for the drunkard to survive in an era that’s decidedly anti-drinking. It wasn’t too hard to put together. I’m in such a groove now with the magazine that all I ever think about is drinking, getting loaded and the lost art of doing it.”
He’s going to N.Y.C. in November for a book launch party in a bar – and then he goes on a book tour through the East Coast, then another one on the in the West. How’s he going to sneak in a few drinks? Easy.
Advice in the book includes etiquette for inebriates, planning a lost weekend and “juicing on the job.” The Drunkard Survival Guide tells you how to survive an AA meeting, avoid getting cut off, carry a passed-out friend, survive a heroic hangover.
The book has received high notices from The N.Y. Times, N.Y. Post and Entertainment Weekly.
As Rich writes in his intro: “This book seeks to alleviate that misplaced guilt, to affirm the notion our grandfathers held to be true: It is perfectly fine and normal to want to get outside one’s head, to take a vacation from oneself.”
Poker party
The second-annual Full-House Celebrity Poker Tourney deals ’em out on Jan. 7 at the Sherman Events Center. Celebs on board so far include Avs Rob Blake, Dan Hinote, John Michael Liles and Brad May. Go to amberhomes.com to buy your $150 tix or pay more to play.
City spirit
Calling all nerdninks. Special release party tonight at Littleton Media Play for the 12:01 a.m. DVD release of “Star Wars: Episode III – Return of the Sith.” Costume contest! Special appearance of Mountain Garrison of the 501st Stormtroopers Legion! … Sez who: “The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.” Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears on Fox 31 News. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
