Nobody listened when Denverite Debra Fine self-published her book “The Fine Art of Small Talk,” which teaches you how to start a conversation and keep it going. It works at workand in bars.
After watching it sell on Amazon, Hyperion picked up the book — and it went on to become a best seller, which never, ever happens. Small talk indeed.
Now she’s talking the talk. Her new book is titled “The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work.”
If you know how to talk small and big, well, you can’t lose.
“It’s more about difficult conversations,” says Fine from NYC, where she just taped an interview for “Today” that will air Feb. 10, marking her sixth time on the show. “It’s about how you do it and how you do it the right way.”
If you want to learn how to talk big, Fine will be at the Tattered Cover LoDo at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Gabbing along.
Pat “Gabby Gourmet” Miller‘s popular KHOW radio show is going from three hours to two hours. Starting Saturday, it’ll air 1 to 3 p.m.
How are the people going to survive with just two hours of the Gabster? “I’m sure they’ll survive,” says Miller. “They won’t have to listen to this voice for for an extra hour.”
Smokin’.
Jethro Tull is booked to get wheeled into Red Rocks on Aug. 12 — tix on sale Monday.
I remember Tull at Red Rocks in the ’70s. People threw some joints on stage at the foot of flutist Ian Anderson. He kicked them off the stage. “I don’t need drugs,” he told the crowd. “I am drugs.”
Going once.
When impresario Chuck Morris and his wife, Becky, get behind the annual Park Hill School Silent/Live Auction, you can expect some rockin’ deals. It comes down this year Feb. 9 at Park Hill Golf Club — where you can bid on 10 tickets to any show at the Bluebird and the Ogden Theatres (too bad it’s too late for the sold-out Fray shows Feb. 1-3 at the Bluebird). Also look for signed artwork from Dave Matthews, a guitar signed by the Eagles, a big goodie bag from Big Head Todd, and up-front seats to Keith Urban and to Billy Joel.
City spirit.
In the new “Rambo,” our aged hero heads upriver in Thailand to save missionaries who are from a Colorado church . . . McCormick’s 13th annual Red Wine & Seafood Dinner comes down Thursday at the Oxford — a VOA benefit. $50; call 720-264-3321 . . . 5 p.m. to midnight every Tuesday @ Tryst cosmos and strawberry cocktails are $2 — with a buck going to the National Breast Cancer Foundation . . . Valentine’s Day at Steuben’s features a “sickeningly sweet” menu that includes a kids’ deal of heart-shaped grilled-cheese sandwiches and cherry-cola ribs . . . Try Floodstage Ale Works in Brighton — a new micro-brewpub with 30-plus Colorado micros . . . Sez who: “If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.” Jack Handy
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