Rascal Flatts played the Pepsi Center with Jessica Simpson on Saturday nightbut they played to a smaller crowd Friday.
The band, Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, went to Elway’s CC for dinner Friday night — with John Elway and his fiancee, Paige Green.
After the meal, about 11:30 p.m., the boys hit the tiny stage in the bar and jammed through three songs, including “Bless the Broken Road” and “What Hurts the Most.”
The place went wild.
See the slide show online at photoprojects/galleries/ cologalleryV6.html.
Lighthouse.
Monday morning comes without the Rocky Mountain News, my wake-up partner for more than 30 years.
I read her long before I worked for her. And then she took me in, rescued me from a waiter’s job in 1985. The only paper I had worked at before was the Crested Butte Pilot, that tramp.
I remember my first week on the job. My column ran long, covering the single-panel comic “Family Circus.” I suggested that my column run in full and that the paper drop “Family Circus” for a day. My editor looked at me, dumbfounded, and said: “You have a lot to learn about the newspaper business.”
(People care about their comics. The Denver Post will run all the comics that had appeared in the Rocky.)
Legendary cops reporter Al Nakkula came into the paper at dawn and clipped all the columnists’ columns so they would be waiting in their mailboxes. One day he left work, went home, opened a beer, sat down in an easy chair to watch TV and died.
“That’s how I want to go,” I said.
“Well, you’re working on it, Husted,” said a pod-mate.
I’ll miss the Rocky. Last one out, turn off the lighthouse.
They’re an item.
You’re a real celeb when your name appears in bold in the New York Post’s Page Six, the Talmud of gossip columns.
“The stars of ‘Top Chef’ like to sizzle, and not necessarily in the kitchen,” says the column, which goes on to spot contestant Leah Cohen and Boulder-based winner Hosea Rosenberg (Jax) “passionately making out at the bar” at West Village hot spot Madame X.
It wasn’t the first time they swapped spit. They kissed on the show — and both said they would apologize to their partners back home.
Iconic.
Terry Vitale’s ICON Awards party came down Thursday night, billed as “A Vanity Affair of Power, Privilege and Fame.” It seemed an odd theme in these times, but people still got into the spirit, dressing as directed as “NY socialite, politician, celebrity or TV glam.” Keri Christiansen arrived as Marilyn Monroe with Andy Levy as Joe DiMaggio. And Judi Wolf came as her red-feathered self.
City spirit.
On the slopes at this weekend’s Aspen Celebrity Downhill: David Alan Grier, Ed Quinn, Dean Cain, Judge Joe Brown, Chad Lowe, Rob Morrow, Karl Mecklenburg, Joy Bryant and Fisher Stevens . . . Sez who: “My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.” — Buffalo Bill
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