Vail was winding down the season this past weekend by hosting both the Vail Film Festival and the Taste of Vail. Movies meet the munchies.
Robert Redford’s daughter Amy was there with her movie, “The Guitar.” And Tom Cruise’s cousin William Mapother was on hand, as was Tim Daly.
Hey, remember, this is a film festival in a town that doesn’t have an operating movie theater.
Adrian Grenier of “Entourage” provided the fest’s star power. He was presented with an award for his greenness, and he screened his movie “The Adventures of Power” along with the real Ari Gold, who wrote, directed and acted in the movie about playing air drums. I asked the bearded Grenier at the fest wrap party if calling his agent in “Entourage” Ari Gold was some kind of inside joke with the real Ari Gold. “Sure,” he said. “They do things like that in Hollywood all the time.”
Saturday night’s Grand Tasting at the Taste of Vail filled the ballrooms of the Marriott with enough tidbits and wine to satiate the 10th Mountain Division.
Mix it up.
My favorite bartender, Michael Howk at The Palm, is profiled in the new Denver Magazine. He even says I’m one of his favorite customers — along with Shaquille O’Neal, Clint Hurdle and Brian Setzer. Now there’s a four top.
Lori Midson gets Howk to open up on a variety of subjects. For example, he loves to make old fashioneds. He hates to make mojitos. The biggest bar tab was run up by the Boston Red Sox after their World Series sweep: $30,000.
Best tip came from Jeff Foxworthy’s manager. “We started talking about my girlfriend’s daughter who was going off to college,” says Howk. “The tab was $800, and he left me a $2,000 tip and told me to buy books.”
His rule of thumb behind the bar: “When in doubt, put more liquor in.”
Big Apple-bound.
The Colorado Tourism Office takes over Madison Square Park in NYC on Friday to celebrate everything Colorado.
The idea is to turn on New Yawkers to our great state.
We’re shipping in for the occasion: dancers from Vail, rock-climbers from REI, buskers from Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, bikers from Breck — and a singing cowboy from a dude ranch.
Restaurateur Danny Meyer, a regular at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic who runs the Shake Shack in the park, has created a dessert especially for us: Colorado’s High Altitude Concrete. Oh, my tummy aches.
City spirit.
District Attorney Mitch Morrissey dropped by former News/Post Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lou Kilzer’s goodbye party at the Press Club on Thursday — and gave him a DA’s Office mug . . . Sightems: Troy Tulowitzki with his family at ESPN Zone after the home-opener loss Friday evening, Matt Holliday at the Denver Magazine party at Lure on Sunday night . . . Sez who: “No one knows what’s next, but everybody does it.” George Carlin
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