Rachel Greenwald is Denver’s dating coachand she just got a huge shout-out from Sunday’s New York Times.
She’s the author of the 2003 best seller “Find a Husband After 35: Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School.” It sold more than 100,000 copies in 18 languages.
The “Vows” column in The Times each week celebrates a recent marriage — and new bride Elena Wechsler gives full credit to Greenwald for coaching her to wedded bliss.
“I was very surprised,” says Greenwald on the horn from Barcelona, Spain. “Most of my clients are embarrassed to have a dating coach. They usually don’t tell their friends or the men they’re dating. Elena is not only not hiding it, but putting it in The New York Times.”
Getting credit for a marriage in the “Vows” column, says Greenwald, is pretty much the holy grail for a dating coach. The book was sold out on by 9 a.m. Sunday.
It was Elena’s dad (also a Harvard biz grad) who arranged for Greenwald to coach his daughter — to the tune of $2,000 to $5,000 a day. And it paid off.
Next up from Greenwald: “Why He Didn’t Call You Back: One Thousand Single Guys Reveal What They Really Thought After Your Date.”
Divas and doggies.
Attorney Fred Bartlit, wife Jana and doggie Lulu like to throw BBQs with big-name entertainment to raise money for the Dumb Friends League.
Last year, their legendary Lulu’s Barkin’ BBQ near Castle Rock brought in Cyndi Lauper. Before that it was Dwight Yoakum, and before that it was Little Richard.
On Aug. 16, Patti LaBelle will be singing in the backyard while guests eat BBQ from Chef Tom Perini of Perini Ranch Steakhouse in Buffalo Gap, Texas.
About 300 people will make the soulful cookout, at $300-$500 each. Call 303-751-5772, ext. 7214.
Condi hits the 88s.
She can wage a war and play the piano!
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is down to perform Aug. 20 at the Aspen Music Festival. She’ll play a Dvorák piano quintet with music students. It’s part of the festival’s Words & Music event. No info yet what she’ll talk about.
Rice was a piano student in Aspen one summer in the early ’70s. And her name is from the Italian musical notation con dolcezza, meaning “with sweetness.”
Whatever.
City spirit.
AEG music man Chuck Morris is proud that Leo Kottke, his first client and the only act he still manages, received an honorary doctorate Saturday from the University of Wisconsin . . . New Yorker humorist David Sedaris is in town June 22 at Tattered Cover LoDo with his book, “When You Are Engulfed in Flames.” He’s back Oct. 29 at the Macky Auditorium in Boulder; tix on sale at Boulder Theater and 303-786-7030 . . . Tony Hawk turned 40 last week, and he’s at Fiddler’s Green on Aug. 16 with his Boom Boom Huckjam show . . . Sez who: “Son, coin collecting is a lot like life. It stopped being fun a long time ago.” Homer Simpson
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