Colorado first lady Jeannie Ritter isn’t exactly a fashion platebut she gets a big shout-out in The Huffing ton Post this week for being one of the best-dressed women at the White House last Sunday night.
Titled “The Other Red Carpet,” the story covers how guests dressed at President Barack Obama’s first official dinner, on the same night as the Oscars. Obama was hosting the politicians in town for the National Governors Association meeting.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did not make the scene in one of her Neiman Marcus get-ups.
Ritter, who also appears in a slide show on the story, wore a vintage gold-colored dress with some rhinestone appliques, sleeveless, with a fitted waist that bells out to mid-calf.
Also in on the best-dressed list: first lady Michelle Obama, social secretary Desiree Rogers, New York Gov. David Paterson’s wife, Michelle, and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
Foodies.
Ticket sales for the Aspen Food & Wine Classic in June are slower than usual — which should come as no surprise with passes going for $1,085 for the three-day party.
Mario Batali will be back again this year — on the heels of a controversial visit to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. The New York Post reports that “Mario ‘Fanta Pants’ Batali and his X-rated mouth could be persona non grata at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. . . . The ‘Iron Chef’ blowhard shocked guests . . . when he referred to the crowd as ‘weasel (bleep)wads,’ then used the F-bomb again when referring to an L.A. eatery.”
Huzzahs to Hosea Rosenberg, chef at Jax Fish House in Boulder, who won “Top Chef: New York” on Bravo on Wednesday night. He’ll also be at Aspen Food & Wine, but probably not cursing.
Curls.
The Olympic curling semis come down today at Broomfield Event Center (I always thought it funny to have curling at BROOM- field). The men play at 8 p.m., a band plays at 9:30 p.m. And not just any band. It’s the Moderators, whose members include local biz leaders Bob Deibel, president of Office Scapes; Ed Haselden, president/ CEO, Haselden Construction; Mike Fries, president, Liberty Media; and Dave Morrison, senior vice president, Grubb & Ellis.
The wire.
Event producer Al Kraizer remembers when Philippe Petit, the man who stars in Oscar-winner “Man on Wire,” did his thing in Denver.
In 1982, eight years after he walked between the Twin Towers, Petit came to town for the World Theatre Festival at the DCPA. According to Kraizer, the “Concert in the Sky” came down in the atrium of the Denver Center, with Petit walking a wire between the parking structure and what is now Boettcher Concert Hall. A woman in white wearing wings and standing on a white grand piano while playing a flute was lifted to the ceiling — as Petit, on the high wire, conducted her and a Denver Brass Quintet in a piece by Erik Satie. “The crowd went wild,” said Kraizer.
City spirit.
How crowded is Aspen going to be on June 18 when Ride the Rockies slides into town — just as Jazz Aspen and the Food & Wine Classic get underway. . . . Sez who: “I always thought curling was a well- kept secret.” Dan Williams
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