Geeks rock. Especially tonight at Coors Field.
More than 8,000 of the Microsoft partners in town for their annual conference will be there for the Partner Celebration. And Microsoft puts on a show.
Look for food from all over the world – including the Caribbean and Antarctica – the latest games, virtual sports and dueling pianos. Fire breathers, street performers, dancers. All kinds of people – except Mac maniacs.
And they’ll dance to three legendary tribute bands: Bjorn Again, the ABBA band; Elevation, the U2 band; and Super Diamond, the Neil Diamond band.
Attention, LoDo loft dwellers – after the concerts, Microsoft will present a whopper of a fireworks display. Time to reboot!
Oceans of love
Oceanaire opened this week with trial dinners Sunday and Monday and a party for the usual suspects Tuesday night.
The “power seafood” restaurant is on the corner of 14th and Arapahoe – and its sleek dining room and bar should attract people, once they figure out where it is.
FYI, it’s just across the street from the DCPA, so theater flack Chris Wiger notes that Oceanaire is the perfect place to eat a fish before you cross the street to see Flounder in “The Little Mermaid” at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, July 26-Sept. 9.
Arf
It’s getting dangerous for doggies at Starbucks.
First, the health department started enforcing doggie bans on its patio at Fillmore and Second. Then, on Tuesday, a neighborhood regular had her Jack Russell stolen from her car parked next to the coffeehouse. She went searching for Keena but never found her and went home to a sleepless night.
A Starbucks employee later saw the dog wandering around – no ID on it – and tied it up in front of Starbucks. It didn’t get a ticket, but it was unclaimed by the end of the night, so she took it home and brought it back the next morning. She tied it up with the sign “LOST DOG. Have you seen my owner? Please ask in Starbucks.”
Another customer saw the dog, called the owner, and they were reunited. Awwwww.
City spirit
I hear chef Roy Yamaguchi is sniffing around LoDo looking for a site for a new restaurant – never mind that Roy’s in Cherry Creek didn’t fly … If Denver isn’t under water, Al Gore will be preaching at the Wells Fargo Theatre at the Colorado Convention Center on Oct. 2 with his “An Inconvenient Truth” PowerPoint presentation. Tix on sale 10 a.m. Monday at Ticketmaster … Denver nightclubber Francois Safieddine spotted in Las Vegas at the World Series of Poker. His profile says his recent winnings total $1,276,478 … Bobbleheads forever! Drew Soicher just signed a comfy multiyear contract with 9News … Fox 31 sportsman Eric Goodman engaged to Rachel Brennan … N.Y. tabs tell us that Brandon “Greasy Bear” Davis (grandson of Denver’s Marvin and Barbara Davis and son of Nancy Davis) mixed it up at his brother Alexander’s recent wedding, getting into a brawl with his dad, Nebil “Bilo” Zarif, at Montage in Lauguna Beach, Calif. … Sez who: “The only way to have really safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.” Wendy Liebman
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