My favorite feature at the Great American beer fest is coming back, Oct. 9-11 at the Colorado Convention Center.
It’s not the beer. It’s the Silent Disco.
Every year, the Oskar Blues Brewery takes over a corner of the convention floor and hosts a headphones-only dance party. Participants wear the headphones and the DJ spins the tunes that only they can hear. It’s a perfect party — and, boy, do they look stupid.
This year, Oskar Blues is holding a contest to win free tix to the fest. Entrants post short film clips on YouTube of themselves dancing, then send a link to silentdisco@oskarblues.com. Five finalists judged on “dancing prowess, beeriness and number of views on YouTube” will get free tix to the (sold-out) fest.
Better get dancing. Winners will be announced Oct. 6 at .
OK company.
The New York Times travel magazine last Sunday gave us a shout out as a great “second city.”
It links us with OK company: Portland, Ore., Houston, Baltimore and Minneapolis-St. Paul, all havens for “creative types with more ideas than cash . . . where it’s possible to paint, play, cook, build — and still eat.”
NYT says we’re the new Chicago, “chef-y and musical with serious eco-cred and zero attitude.”
For music, we can brag about the Flobots and the Fray.
For eats, we have Jennifer Jasinski’s Bistro Vendome and Rioja, and Alex Seidel’s Fruition.
And our city’s “mascot” is “night-life impresario and World Poker champ Francois Safieddine, who owns 5 Degrees, 24k, Monark and the new Suite 200 in Larimer Square.”
Back at the ranch.
Cowboys & Indians, the slick Western lifestyle magazine, gives Kevin Costner star treatment on the cover of the October issue.
The cover shot and most of the inside pix are of Costner at his Aspen ranch, canoeing with his son, standing next to a horse, crouching by a river.
One pic shows the affable actor in the movie “Swing Vote,” which he famously announced he financed by taking out a mortgage on his Aspen ranch.
Hope it wasn’t one of these subprime loans. As of Sunday, “Swing Vote,” which opened Aug. 1, had grossed $16,098,516 — and it cost $21 million to make.
Hollywood yuks.
Former Denver stand-up comic Ed Yeager’s new television sitcom, “Gary Unmarried,” premiered Wednesday night on CBS — delayed 15 minutes by President Bush’s calming talk on the economic crisis.
But this isn’t Yeager’s first rodeo. His started in L.A. with “Roseanne,” a fellow Denver comic, then various producing credits that include “Grace Under Fire,” “Suddenly Susan” and “Dharma & Greg.” He’s married to one-time Denver PR woman Linda Wallace.City spirit.
Swanee Hunt is traveling the state on a personal mission to enlist 1,000 women to guide 100,000 women in the voting process — for Barack Obama. She’s in Erie today . . . Sez who: “No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for awhile you’ll see why.” Mignon McLaughlin
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