The Katie Couric Traveling Roadshow, coming to Denver on July 13, is looking for an audience.
The visit by Couric, who steps in Sept. 5 as anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” is part of a six-
city tour asking people which issues they would want covered.
“Katie selected Denver as one of the cities she wants to visit,” Walt DeHaven, general manager at KCNC-Channel 4, the local CBS outlet, said Wednesday in announcing the visit.
Starting Monday, those eager to tell Katie what they want to see can sign on to cbsdenver.com and fill out a questionnaire for one of 100 town-hall seats.
While here, Couric will attend a fundraising luncheon for the Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers Foundation. Her husband, Jay, died of colon cancer in 1998.
Fizzzzzzzzzzz
Unless you’ve been holed up on “Lost,” you’ve seen the Mentos/Diet Coke geyser on video. It’s all over the Internet.
Steve Spangler, author of “Fizz Factor: 50 Amazing Experiments With Soda Pop” who makes regular appearances on KUSA-Channel 9, this week dragged 9News anchor Kim Christiansen outdoors to act as his lovely-if-skittish assistant in unleashing fountains from 40 bottles of Diet Coke.
Spangler doesn’t claim he invented the Mentos/Diet Coke spew but he’s certainly helped popularize it. The experiment consists of dropping a row of Mentos candies into a two-liter bottle of Diet Coke. Stand back.
A couple of Coke showers later, Christiansen discreetly takes cover behind a tree, proclaiming, “I’m getting a haircut after this!”
To quote co-anchor Mark Koebrich: “That’s great TV!” The video is viewable at Spangler Science on 9news.com.
Weekend highlights
Today
“Arthur Godfrey’s Amateur Hour” comes back from the dead with “America’s Got Talent,” a collection of jugglers, acrobats and singers chasing $1 million. Regis Philbin hosts (8 p.m., Channel 9).
Saturday
“Cinderella Man,” the filmed comeback of Depression-era boxer Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe) (6 p.m., HBO).
Sunday
Cowpokes Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church save Chinese prostitutes in the Old West in “Broken Trail,” a two-part series (6 p.m., AMC).
Around the dial
“Colorado State of Mind” examines the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision on the attempt to block state services for illegal immigrants (7:30 tonight, KRMA-Channel 12) … Food Network’s “Road Tasted” in Boulder this week to film a segment on the Flagstaff House restaurant to air in July … Quotable: “It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” Albert Einstein
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
