Are you ready for a private nightclub, Denver? A post-modern speakeasy? The boys at Jet Hotel think you are.
Applications are being accepted to join Twenty, a private nightclub in the basement of the former Luna Hotel. The price of admission? A cool $1,000 per year. That gets you in the door with one guest and offers a good rate for a hotel room, bottle-service reservations, a private liquor cabinet, luxury lifestyle services and other perks. A transferable corporate membership costs $2,000.
Josh Dinar is the spokesman for the group, which also includes Jeff Suskin, Geoff Smith, Geoff McFarlane and Eric Wyancko.
“We’re going for the 30-something, 40-something crowd, young in spirit,” says Dinar. “People really like the idea of having a place that speaks to a crowd between the country-club set and the ‘get-wasted-and-fall-over-
each-other-on-the-dance-floor’ set.”‘
It’ll have a loungy, low-table feel, says Dinar. Food in the lobby and at Twenty will be provided by Troy Guard of Sullivan Restaurant Group.
Interest is so keen, says Dinar, that they are holding membership to 80 people, maybe as few as 50. That seems mighty small to support a club, but Dinar says, “The space isn’t that big, and there is going to be a lot of demand when we open.”
Twenty is also open to guests staying in the hotel’s 19 rooms.
So who gets invited to apply?
“We’re keeping it in the family to start,” says Dinar. “Business associates, friends, friends of friends.”
Reactions to the Twenty plans generally are disbelief. One thousand bucks? To join a nightclub? But we’ll see how Denver’s private nightclub/restaurant shakes out.
Dining out
Make your reservations now for Dining Out for Life, Project Angel Heart’s annual eat-a-thon to deliver “meals with love for people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-
threatening illnesses.”
On April 27, 25 percent of food sales from hundreds of area restaurants go to the cause. Eateries include Bent Fork, Aix, Avenue Grill, Cucina Colore, 1515, Bistro Vendome, Bull and Bush, Blue Bonnet, Lola, Venice – and the list goes on. Go to projectangelheart.org for a complete roster.
Lan’ Mine of Love
Lannie Garrett takes a breather from Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, where she’s done the Patsy DeCline thing since the club opened Jan. 27. She returns to her home stage July 21 with “Screen Gems,” a revue of your Hollywood favorites backed by the Errand Boys of Rhythm Quintet.
Standing in for Garrett are some major talents: Mills Brothers Revue, May 4-6; New Orleans piano man Henry Butler, May 12; Pete Martinez, May 13; Maria Muldaur remembering Peggy Lee, May 18-20; Jill Sobule, June 2; impressionist Jimmy James, June 8-10; Mark Murphy, June 15-17.
City spirit
Late concert add-ons, no on-sale dates yet: Widespread Panic at Winter Park Ski Area, July 22 and 23; George Benson and Al Jarreau at CityLights Pavilion on Aug. 20 … Sez who: “I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.” Samuel Johnson
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
