Denver sportswriter Rick Reilly is back from running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spainand not a minute too soon. He didn’t get gored or trampled, but he took some heat on the Web for hitting a bull with a newspaper.
His story on covers the adventure, which he promises never to do again.
His aim at the running was to survive, get a story, and swat the backside of a bull with a newspaper. He succeeded at all these endeavors — to the chagrin of some bloggers out there.
Yahoo NFL columnist Charles Robinson went nutso on Reilly, tweeting “You should never swat the Bulls w/a newspaper. It causes them 2 get distracted & go after runners. Rick Reilly should have known that . . . I am beyond (mad) about this Rick Reilly running with the bulls piece. He endangered other runners. He’s why people die. Total idiot.”
chimed in with some animal-rights issues. And a reader pointed out, “Now we have reporters reporting on the reporting of other reporters.” Add one more with me. Reilly did not return calls Friday. At least he was out doing something.
David does fiction.
There are people who think David Sedaris always writes fiction — that his short, personal and very funny essays are exaggeration as much as storytelling.
But there is no doubt that his next book — “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary” — is a work of fiction. The collection of animal fables is due in September.
Sedaris will be at the Boulder Theater on Oct. 26, a small venue for this star. Tix on sale now at or 303-786-7030.
Open!
Pasta Pasta Pasta reigned at Fillmore and Third for 26 years — but it moved Monday to its sparkling new digs at Fillmore Plaza between First and Second avenues — with a line out the door.
Cantina Laredo is open at the Streets of SouthGlenn — good-looking place with good guac.
And Euclid Hall, a “new American tavern” from Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch, opens at 1317 14th St. on Monday morning.That’s 8/ 9/10 @ 11:12:13 a.m. to be exact.
City spirit.
Sightem: Monday at Brewery Bar II, Wynonna Judd and a pal. She’s back Oct. 2 for Western Fantasy . . . Tambien celebrates its third anniversary this weekend. Hours of operation, 17,088; margaritas sold, 207,762; tacos sold, 197,643; cervezas sold, 228,681 . . . Brian Griese will provide the color for the Broncos games on KOA-850 AM beside Dave Logan . . . Playboy Golf Scramble is Aug. 12 and 13 at Broadlands Golf Course — seriously — hosted by Amy Leigh Andrews, Miss April 2010. Call 303-356-2924 . . . Super Diamond brings its Cracklin’ Rosie to the Ogden Theatre on Oct. 2 . . . Afternoon happy hour 2 to 6 p.m. at Steuben’s with $1 sliders, $3 gravy fries and $5 boat drinks . . . Now that The Atlantic magazine has left Aspen and the Ideas Festival it sponsored, comes out with the story “Why Are the Restaurants So Bad in Aspen?” Not much love for Montangna, Pinons and Syzygy . . . Sez who: “The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you’re on the job.” Slappy White
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