Mike Jones is having a tough week, but he’s doing a good thing.
There was a fire in another apartment of his Capitol Hill building. Smoke damage forced him to move into a Colfax hotel. Bummer.
Jones is the gay masseur/body builder who brought down evangelical preacher Ted Haggard with revelations of a three-year sexual relationship. Now Haggard says he’s 100 percent hetero after some counseling. And Jones says he’s out of the back-rub business and auctioning off his purple massage table on eBay. Coloradoconfidential.com broke the story over the weekend and Jones confirmed it Monday. “I’m done with the business,” he told me.
He wants to donate the auction money to Project Angel Heart, an agency that feeds people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
When I told PAH, they were thrilled. “That’s great!” said development director Mindy Davidson. This is nice timing, as PAH will serve its 2 millionth meal on Saturday.
It should be up on eBay soon, he says. “And if someone wants, I’ll autograph it. This is where it all happened.”
Call the cops
The Police are coming to Denver June 9. Fresh off the U.K. rock trio’s reunion performance of “Roxanne” at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards ceremony (the high point of that stinker), the group announced Monday a giant world tour from The Whisky nightclub in Los Angeles that will include the June 9 pullover at the Can.
Exact ticket prices and on-sale dates were not announced for Denver, but should range between $50-$225 before fees – to see Sting, drummer Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers playing together. The group broke up in 1984 and has only played together sparingly since then.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of “Roxanne,” the single that turned the heat on The Police.
Be mine
Kris Kenny is probably Denver’s best known matchmaker. Her company Kris Kenny Connections has been in the biz for four years – and she has eight marriages to show for it. She’s getting married herself in the fall to pizza tycoon John LeBel.
Kinny has a lot of advice for her clients, like the importance of listening. I always tell her, “Listening – it’s the unsafest sex of all.”
Biggest “don’t”: No gabbing about your ex.
City spirit
SkyWest flew Flight 4047 from Aspen to Salt Lake City 16 times in December and it was late 100 percent of the time, making it the most frequently delayed flight in the country … The Purple Martini spots hold their Single in the City Parties on Wednesday night, dames get first drink free … Marquee at 15th Street Tavern: “Barfly Special. Come in and drink.” … Sez who: “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.” Woody Allen
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