Some powerful pens are coming to townand you might want to make a note of it.
Candace Bushnell, author of “Sex and the City,” will be at the Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 with her new novel “One Fifth Avenue.”
I met Bushnell for a cosmo at the bar atop Tattered Cover Cherry Creek not too many years ago — and spilled a martini on her lap while she was eating a plate of salumi. So much for Mister Right.
Bushnell will be back to Denver in the spring just talking the talk, not hyping a tome, so stay tuned.
David Sedaris is at Macky Auditorium in Boulder Oct. 29. Tix @ .
The Pen & Podium Series is out — with historian David McCullough coming to the Newman Center Oct. 1. Then it’s Sara Gruen (“Water for Elephants”) on Nov. 10; funny Floridian Carl Hiaasen on Feb. 19 and Sue Monk Kidd (“The Secret Lives of Bees”) on March 24. Tix at 303-871-7720, option 2.
And the venerable Town Hall Series starts Sept. 29 with Dickie Arbiter, the former press secretary for Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth of Great Britain — and the personal media relations manager for the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tix at 303-698-0230.
That was the week
. Bruce Barnes used to play the piano in the Brown Palace — before he left for NYC and the bright lights. But he was back at the Brown for DNC week, sitting in for John Kite during afternoon tea and at night at Ship Tavern.
He was expecting some wild nights — but not so.
The most exciting thing that happened, in fact, was when the grandchildren of Ethel Kennedy asked him to play “Nice Work If You Can Get It” from “Crazy For You” as they danced routines they learned in their middle school production. It was that kind of week.
Brown Palace guest Sean Penn “was very well behaved,” says Barnes. “Doesn’t anyone get drunk anymore?”
The Wizard.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the guy on “Oprah” all the time, comes to the Budweiser Event Center in Loveland on Nov. 12.
If you want to save $50 and still live to be 100, here are some recent quotes from Oz in Success magazine.
“When you have no stress, you are almost certainly dead already.”
“You can’t have a wealthy society if you are not a healthy society.”
“You have to have passion in your life — you have to have a reason to keep your heart beating.”
I could have told you all that. Tix at .
City spirit.
12-year-old Highlands Ranch kid Tyler Weaver Jr. overcame some serious childhood ailments, discovered martial arts, became a champ — and he’s on “Oprah” today to show it off . . . Time for deals in the mountains. Larkspur in Vail has 50% off wine through Oct. 5. The Westin Riverfront in Avon opens Sept. 25 and rooms start at $119/night . . . Sez who: ” ‘Sex and the City’ to me never really was about sex, that was kind of the icing on the cake. Success is the new sex.” Candace Bushnell
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