Big names, big deals:
What life-changing experience does David Crosby share with Steve Farber? Both the rocker and the attorney have had life-saving organ transplants — a liver for Crosby and a kidney for Farber — and they’re teaming up on a benefit for the Denver-based American Transplant Foundation.
Crosby, along with bandmates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, will play a concert June 26 at Wells Fargo Theatre in the Colorado Convention Center, and the foundation has reserved the best seats in the house for its supporters. Check out the deets at .
Col. Harold D. Weekley, the last of the World War II B-17 combat pilots, was here over the weekend to be saluted at the Airpower Heritage Hangar Dance held at the XJet terminal at Centennial Airport . . . TV talker Bertice Berry and Gov. Bill Ritter were guests of honor at a benefit for the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center . . . Emmy-nominated wig and makeup designer Ronell Oliveri was the speaker at a luncheon last week put on by the Business and Professional Women of Opera Colorado . . . One-time “American Idol” contestant Matt Buckstein, a member of the Colorado band The Hired Guns, entertained those attending an open house marking Food Bank of the Rockies’ 30th anniversary.
CBS4’s Michelle Griego is mistress of ceremonies for Saturday night’s Fiesta on the Plaza, a benefit for Clinica Tepeyac . . . Memories in the Making, an art show and dinner benefiting the Alz- heimer’s Association, takes place Friday night at Invesco Field . . . Matthew, Mary Kay and Nancy Hogan, Rita Derjue, Ginny and Louis Messina, Lynn and Ed Alexander, and Carl Zimmerman were among those who helped raise $85,000 for the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center by attending the agency’s recent Little Italy dinner . . . Le Bal de Ballet’s debutantes and Young Men of Distinction are to be presented Saturday at Boettcher Concert Hall and then feted at the 40th-anniversary dinner-dance immediately after at the Sheraton Denver Hotel . . . Also on Saturday, Seawell Ballroom is the setting for a dinner-dance that Faye Washington and her children Danielle Washington LaCabe and Quinn Washington are giving to celebrate Dr. Reginald Washington’s appointment as chief medical officer for Health- One’s new Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children . . . Escuela Tlateloco’s 2008 Flor y Canto Festival paid tribute to state Sen. Abe Tapia; John Schaffer, general manager of the Hyatt Regency Convention Center; actor Jesse Borrego; producer-director Daniel Salazar; John Echohawk, executive director of NARF; and Cordelia Chavez-Candelaria, regents’ professor and associate dean at Arizona State University.
