Heidi Montag isn’t the only feisty female to come from Crested Butte. Singer Nina Storey hails from the ski hamlet, tooand she’ll be entertaining us at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Taste of Colorado.
She’s been in Colorado all week and competed in a triathlon at the Boulder Reservoir on Saturday — not exactly Janis Joplin behavior.
“I know some other musicians who are extreme athletes,” Storey says. “It’s a good outlet from all the crazy things that the music world brings in. And it gives me a lot of energy for my show.”
You know her tunes from “Days of Our Lives,” where she wrote original songs for 1 1/2 years. “No Man” was featured on “So You Think You Can Dance”; the new Ford Fiesta commercial has her singing “I Wear You Well.” And she could break out with the title song for the upcoming movie “Stay Cool,” starring Hilary Duff, Jon Cryer and Winona Ryder.
Look for a strong set at Taste. On Saturday, she’s at the Boulder Hometown Fair at 7 p.m.
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It’s all about the beer. Lots and lots of beer.
The Great American Beer Festival, Sept. 16-18, is long sold out. But you can still go to Oktoberfest Sept. 18-19 and 24-26 in the Ballpark neighborhood. The Breckenridge Brewery hosts its Gastravaganza of Beautiful Beer and Splendid Street Food at the Denver brewery Sept. 18. BeerAdvocate magazine hosts a day-long Pub Crawl 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Sept. 17, and the Brew at the Zoo is the time to drink with the animals Sept. 10.
Food, glorious food.
Paul Prudhomme of K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen rumbles into town Sept. 11 to cook and give demos at Denver Food & Wine Classic.
The Evening of Decadent Delights comes down Sept. 14 at Lola. Some of Denver’s top chefs do the cooking: Matt Selby, Vesta/Steuben’s; Tyler Wiard, Elway’s Cherry Creek; Sean Yontz, El Diablo, Sketch and Tambien; Alex Seidel, Fruition; Keegan Gerhard, DBar; Brian Laird, Barolo Grill; Goose Sorensen, Solera; and Jamey Fader, Lola. The moolah, $95 plus tax and tip, goes to Penny Parker’s charity, Sense of Security, a nonprofit that pays for nonmedical expenses for breast cancer patients. Call 720-985-6947.
And spotted in Denver restaurants and cafes this week: Condoleezza Rice and Pat Miller at Strings; Madeleine Albright at The Palm; Ubaldo Jimenez at Maggiano’s Denver Pavilions, all on Thursday. John Malkovich caught a shot of espresso Friday morning at the Starbucks on Larimer Square.
And the Travel Section of the New York Times gives three Denver eateries big shout-outs in today’s paper. Huzzahs to Fruition, Root Down and the Squeaky Bean for growing some of their own food.
City spirit.
Chuck Morris and Steve Farber are organizing a Hickenlooper for Governor benefit concert with Denver’s biggest acts: Big Head Todd and The Fray . . . Lannie Garrett (as Lannie and Patsy DeCline) is just back from playing to an SRO house at M Bar in Hollywood . . . Sez who: “Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.” — Homer Simpson
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