Phillip Palmer was always a nice guy.
I worked with him at KCNC-Channel 4 in the ’90s, and he’d give you the shirt off his back. I never bothered to ask for an organ.
Palmer moved to L.A. in the ’90s, where he is now morning anchor at KABC. While there, he befriended editor Dale Davis, who had kidney failure. Some friends organized a rock concert to raise the money for the operation and search for a donor. Palmer was a perfect match – and he donated one of his kidneys to Davis on Wednesday.
After the operation, he spoke to Channel 4’s Kathy Walsh. Seems it all went well.
“I’ll be fine,” he said, sounding a little weak. “One kidney is no big deal. I just want Dale to be healthy.”
My kind of town
The slick Western magazine Cowboys and Indians is in town this week doing a story on Colorado mystery writer Margaret Coel. It’ll be called “Margaret Coel’s Denver,” and the mag says since she writes about the Arapaho, the places she’ll visit “all have a historical connection to the tribe.” We’ll see what connections, exactly, in a visit that includes a stay at the Hotel Teatro and meals at Restaurant Kevin Taylor, Mirepoix, Zengo and Rioja.
Author! Author!
Grand Junction writer Aryn Kyle, 29, gets a big hit this month in Vogue (she’s hyped right next to Kurt Andersen’s blockbuster “Heyday”).
Her book “The God of Animals” is “a stunning debut and moving look at a disappearing way of life,” says Vogue. Her friends told her to call the
coming-of-age-in-Colorado book “Horses.” But she could just see the jacket blurb: “If you like horses, then you’ll love ‘Horses.”‘
Former Rocky and Post reporter/editor Mark Stevens is out with a book this week, “Antler Dust.” It’s a mystery that starts on the first day of elk hunting in the Colorado Flat Tops. Stevens will sign the book at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Tattered Cover LoDo – and his old pal Mayor John Hickenlooper will do the intros.
Local best-selling author Stephen White (just out with “Dry Ice”) gives Stevens this blurb: “The number of fine Colorado crime writers just increased by one.” High praise from one of the best.
Hit the breaks
Rockmount Ranch Wear’s Steve Weil is mending after a car crash Saturday. The brakes failed in his 1947 Ford truck, and
he sailed through an intersection on Colorado Boulevard and hit two cars – ending up with a broken knee and rib. “It could have been worse,” says Weil, at home in a cast. “No one else got hurt, my son could have been with me. My dog was with me, but he’s fine.”
City spirit
Denver-based “L-Word” star Pam Grier parties at Rise from 7 to 9 tonight. … Solera is open for Sunday brunch starting April 1. … Amore is shuttered, but operator Greg Goldfogel says things are going well at his new Alto spot in LoDo. … Kids must be having fun in Vail this week. Stuff Magazine’s “Ultimate Guide to Spring Break” names it the “No. 1 Place To Be” this year. … Sez who: “The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.” Bill Maher
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