I’ve always been afraid to attend Kevin Larson’s Victorian Fetish Ball — and so I have missed it for 10 years straight. But maybe I’ll go to the Diamond Cabaret this Saturday night and see what it’s all about.
I think I am on the safe side to say a lot of it is about titillation. This party is not a scene out of the film “Eyes Wide Shut.” It’s all make-believe, a “sensual dance and costume party,” says the flier.
More than 70 acts keep it going, including one called Rubber Doll, an entertainer from Sweden who needs no introduction.
“After 10 years, people schedule surgeries around this party,” Larson says. “It’s become this crazy thing. There is nothing like this in Denver. It’s beautiful people pushing their boundaries. It’s all healthy, elegant sexuality. We design it mostly for women. Men are simple. Women are complex.”
He is a wise man, this Kevin Larson.
Larson is expecting about 1,300 people, 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. then an after-party until 4 a.m.
Here’s a list of what to look for: live snakes, erotic ballet, living balloon statues, human marionettes, fire shows, exotic belly dancers, blood-bath shows, stilt walkers, angels and demons.
You must wear a costume. Dinner for two at CY Steak, $60. VIP tix are $59, GA $35. Tix at — if you dare.
Mother.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in Denver on Thursday for the Denver Scholarship Foundation fundraising dinner, chaired by Dr. Dean Prina and Arlene Hirschfeld.
Just last week, Bloomberg was on NPR’s “Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!” with Peter Sagal, and I loved this exchange.
Sagal: You have a 101-year-old — I’m going to assume something here — 101-year-old Jewish mother.
Bloomberg: Yes.
Sagal: You’re a billionaire. You’re mayor of New York.
Bloomberg: Yup.
Sagal: Is she still vaguely disappointed in you?
Tix available for the Bloomberg dinner at .
Dood.
You probably remember Conner Cordova, the Dakota Ridge High School senior who YouTubed and cajoled Maxim model and UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste into being his date last March. Don’t freak, Conner, but she’s on the cover of Playboy this month! He’s thinking like John Greenleaf Whittier: “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ “
He is still reeling from the date — and the kiss goodnight. After graduation, Cordova decided to take a year off and write about ultimate fighting and mixed martial arts on his Website, , and for the Brit publication Fighters Only magazine. You can vote for Cordova as “MMA Writer of the Year” at .
City spirit.
Wynkoop Brewing Co.’s signature Railyard Ale is now available at Invesco Field at Mile High. Could that be the problem? . . . Lots of Jets stopped to dine at Shanahan’s this past weekend: Kyle Wilson, the coaching staff and GM Mike Tannenbaum. Ed McCaffrey and family also stopped in . . . Sez who: “I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.” Michael Bloomberg
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