Finally, things to do in Denver when you really are dead. The Left Coast Crime Convention is in town Thursday through Sunday, celebrating murder mysteries in all their gory glory.
The highlight of the confab is the Denver Murder Machine, a bus tour of Denver murder scenes led by Denver novelist Mario Acevedo (“The Nymphos of Rocky Flats,” “X-Rated Blood Suckers” and “The Undead Kama Sutra.”)
His books star vampire/detective Felix Gomez, who has an office in the Oriental Theater.
The bus tour will include the Darrent Williams murder scene, Brown Palace, United Bank Building (now Wells Fargo Building, a.k.a. Cash Register building), Larimer and Market streets, Denver Mint, Richthofen Castle, Lumber Baron Inn, Larimer Bridge — all of which had murders inside or nearby.
Between stops, Acevedo will fill his patter with stories of suburban murders — such as the one at Chuck E. Cheese’s in Aurora.
“Denver used to be a wild place,” says Acevedo. Go to .
Jingle jangle.
A big gang of bold names is expected at Landmark on Thursday for a salute to condo/ home dealers Carol and Nancy Levine. But some bold ones are already regulars at the Interstate 25 and East Belleview Avenue development because Jing is there; Jing is Charlie Huang and Mike Ditchfield’s new Chinese restaurant/lounge.
For weeks, stylish suburbanites have been crowding into the glitzy bar to rub elbows and down flower-bud cocktails — the infamous Sichuan Button. Take a sip of your martini then bite into the bud. Don’t eat the stem, because that spells certain, instant and painful death. Maybe. But the bud makes your mouth explode in about five seconds, like you dumped a whole package of Pop Rocks into your pie hole. Your mouth is alive with fire ants, and your drink is somehow more animated as you try to drown the little buggers. You gotta try this.
Oh, mama.
Sunday’s New York Times ran a story on the robust real estate market in Vail. It quoted Rod Slifer, a partner with developers Slifer, Smith & Frampton. In the second mention, they referred to Rod as “Mr. Stifler.” You remember Erik Stifler from “American Pie,” doncha? And we’ll always remember Stifler’s mom.
“They got it right 50 percent of the time,” said Slifer on Monday. “That’s not bad for that paper.”
City spirit.
Peter Forsberg, wearing Dolce Gabbana, was the sure-fire hit at Neiman’s Avalanche Charity Brunch and Fashion Show on Sunday morning. But it was rookie Kyle Cumiskey who looked the silliest, in an inside-out suit jacket, Bermuda shorts, black socks and a stingy-brim lid . . . Barry Hirschfeld‘s mom, Dorothy, died Friday at 98. She was born on the Fourth of July and died on leap day. And here’s a pic I took of Dorothy on Barry’s motorcycle in Cherry Creek on her 90th birthday . . . Sez who: “Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman . . . or a bad woman.” George Burns
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