Alone on Valentine’s Day? Denver has a slew of matchmaking services (Dinner for Six, It’s Just Lunch) and two energetic matchmakers with very different approaches, yet hoping for the same result.
Kris Kenny at Kris Kenny Connections has been at the match game for eight years and brags that she has had a hand in 25 marriages. These days, she’s concentrating her matchmaking efforts on a VIP service for men — getting them to sign up for connections with Denver’s most beautiful women for a $5,000 to $10,000 fee. “We’re the full deal,” says Kenny.
Kenny is hosting a Suite Singles Mingle party tonight at Suite Two Hundred on Larimer Square. Go to .
Michele “The Matchmaker” Fields has been doing the Denver fix-up since 1989 at Bon Jour Matchmaking Service. She sounds like she’s through with love for herself but ready to help you find that special someone. Says a release, “Although she, herself, has given up on love in her life, she sees it for others and makes it a reality for them.”
Fields charges a one-time fee of $600, plus $35 per introduction. And the $600 fee, she says, “is forever, until you get married, or I die trying.” She claims more than 300 marriages to her credit. You can find her at 303-756-8106, but it’s probably too late for a Valentine’s date.
Be mine!
One of my favorite Valentine events is the SOL (Store of Lingerie) Beer, Brats & Bras party for guys. Too bad, it was Thursday, but the store, at 248 Detroit St., is open today through Sunday for late Valentine presents that are a lot better than Pajamagrams.
Elway’s @ The Ritz hosts an “Ice-Breaker — Not Heart-Breaker” happy hour today through Monday in the Valentine spirit. It features a Skinny Dip cocktail, a Playmate Martini, the Ritzy Chick highball, aphrodisiac apps such as oysters, dried figs, goat cheese drizzled with truffle honey and crispy Rocky Mountain oysters.
The Love Show runs at CORE New Art Space, 900 Santa Fe Drive, through Feb. 28. It’s a exhibition created by Denver’s top art couples. Sweet.
The most romantic table in town is still the two-top by the fireplace at Barolo. You can’t reserve it, pal, you just have to get lucky. And Rockbar hosts a “Romance Is Dead — Get Drunk Instead” party.
Beep beep, veep.
Vice President Joe Biden caused a subdued stir in Beaver Creek last weekend. But the 30 Secret Service agents having breakfast at the slopeside Coyote Cafe were surprised to see a kayak hanging behind the bar with a Barack Obama mannequin sitting in it.
“We used to have (Bill) Clinton in it, but we switched to Obama the day after the election,” says bar owner Buzz Busby. He says he skipped George W. Bush. “It’s just a mannequin with an Obama mask. We told the Secret Service it was a respectful, if irreverent, representation of the president. They got a big kick out of it.”
City spirit.
Murphy Huston, Denise Plante and the Nacho Men celebrate V-Day on Saturday at the Marriott DTC for Project Safeguard. Tix at the door for $70. . . . Sez who: “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” — Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
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