If you’ve been to New Orleans, you know the gospel brunch. Cajun food, shoutin’, clappin’and plenty of singin’ to wash it down.
Denver enters the arena with two new gospel brunches — today at Comedy Works South and Feb. 21 at Dazzle.
The ever-amazing Hazel Miller will bring friends to rock the house today. Comedy Works last month tried this with the group Days of Eight, and it was wild. Fried chicken, cream gravy, praise Jesus. Tix at the door are $32.
Radio sponsors KGNU and KUVO tell you to “Get your gospel on” at Dazzle. Already known for its jazz brunch, Dazzle will kick it up a notch with Hearts of Worship and Madame Andres, the Gospel Queen of Denver. Tix at the door are $35, or go to .
If you’re getting into that New Orleans spirit, pick up a copy of “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans,” by Boulder author Dan Baum. He covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath for The New Yorker. This book traces the strange and intersecting lives of nine New Orleans characters. “New Orleans is a weird culture,” he says. “It’s so different from anything we know. It’s another country.”
Pucker up!
Lacey Maynard, 30, and Kaleb Kohart, 31, both from Colorado Springs, won the title of America’s Best Kissers on Friday at Grand Central Station in NYC.
Kaleb is a graphic designer, Lacey a medical receptionist — and they’re not even dating. Talk about friends with benefits!
They re-created the kiss from “Gone With the Wind” in the Netflix-sponsored contest.
“By definition, they are the best kissers in America,” said event host George Shea. “By extension, the world.”
They won a trip to Las Vegas. Maybe they’ll start dating there.
Rescue me.
Eileen and Neil Cestra at Essential Fitness at Landmark want to give sanctuary to the victims of the Anti-Gym.
Readers of this column will recall the antics of Michael Karolchyk, owner of the Anti-Gym, which was shut down by the IRS last month. Members were shut out, and sorry, no refunds. And their personal info was thrown in a Dumpster.
“It makes the fitness business look bad,” Neil says. “So we’re offering these people a safe haven.” To that end, they’re giving Anti-Gym refugees two free weeks and a discounted membership. Call them at 303-394-9000.
Going once.
The Latin American Educational Foundation Gala on March 14 is worth going to just for the live auction.
Items up for bids include four tickets to Oprah Winfrey‘s show in Chicago, with two nights at the Hyatt.
Other items: Four box seats to the Kentucky Derby; or you can take a walk down Wisteria Lane when you spend a day on the set of “Desperate Housewives,” along with rooms at the Burbank Marriott.
City spirit.
Rabbi Steven Foster’s daughter Deborah Leebove didn’t win Friday’s Manischewitz Cook-Off Contest in NYC. Her Mani Meatloaf recipe (a meatloaf brimming with Manischewitz wine) lost out to a Jersey girl’s Marvelous Mediterranean Falafel Sliders . . . Sez who: “I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.” Chico Marx
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