Denver superlawyer Norm Brownstein has no excuse to forget his wedding anniversary this year.
Forty years ago on Aug. 16, he married Sunny Tobias.
It’s also 40 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing. And 40 years since Woodstock, which came down the same weekend as the Brownstein nups.
“I wouldn’t forget it anyhow,” says Brownstein. “But it was quite a summer.”
I came upon this info when a colleague, Dana Coffield, brought in a Rocky Mountain News commemorative edition of the Apollo 11 splashdown on July 24, 1969. She found it in her late grandpa’s basement.
Along with all the moon news came two pages of society data from Plattie Sanders. And the news of the parties before the Brownsteins’ “impressive ceremony.”
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Wandel and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Davis hosted a dinner at Cafe Bonaparte. Marne and Cathy Griems hosted a luncheon at their home. Mrs. Irvin Isaacson threw a kitchen shower. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shapiro had a cocktail party and buffet. Mr. and Mrs. Al Rubin hosted a dinner party at Laffite’s. And Julie Griems and Andrea Levy had a brunch.
“I was young then,” says Brownstein. “I had more stamina.”
Home again.
Jill Sobule, the Denver-raised rocker who came out with the first “I Kissed a Girl” ditty, is back in town Tuesday at the Lion’s Lair with John Doe and the Sadies — a small venue for this lineup. It’ll be jamming.
And Rob Mullins is the first act to hit Regas Christou’s City Hall on July 31.
Dear Amy.
Amy Rubin believes in love. Some call her “Denver’s Resident Love Doctor” because she’s on at 7 p.m. Tuesdays handing out love advice to callers from all over the place. She has two websites — and — where she sells love T-shirts and mends broken hearts.
At 37, she has never been married. But she has been “deeply in love” twice, so she knows the pleasures, the aches, the pains. She does not believe, as so many do, that love is a rathole.
“Be happy with yourself and love will come,” she tells me.
Final edition.
Janice Min just quit as editor of Us Weekly, after making it the top celeb-driven mag in the country. It has been called “crack on newsprint.”
Min is from Littleton and went to Heritage High, where she was news editor of the The Pioneer. She was back to speak there last year.
Reports say she just couldn’t take the pressure of the magazine’s weekly schedule. Her boss, Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone, is a taskmaster.
No word on her plans, but she’s probably not returning to The Pioneer.
City spirit.
Happy birthday to writer/biker Robert “The Gimp” Lindsay, turning 60 . . . James McCollough and Audra Sharifi will get married Saturday at Elitch Gardens, taking the plunge after taking the plunge on the XLR8R ride. After the ceremony, she’ll throw out a cotton-candy bouquet . . . Sez who: “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” Dorothy Parker
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