If you were watching Jimmy Kimmel‘s show Monday night, you saw a skit with a guy in a gorilla suit. And Colorado is proud that Frank Coffman of Boulder made that gorilla suit. He’s the foremost gorilla-suit maker in America.
“I used to make Halloween masks, but the Chinese pretty much wiped out American mask makers,” he said. “So about 10 years ago, I started concentrating on making gorilla suits and Bigfoot suits. I custom-make them, so I make a lot of them. It’s not Hollywood quality with a moving jaw, but it’s a good gorilla suit.”
You can check them out at . The suit is $225, plus $35 shipping. If it’s good enough for Kimmel, it’s good enough for you.
Love and marriage.
The Denver Wedding Preview Event is ready to kiss the bride Feb. 20 at the Cable Center. It’s your usual wedding fair, with one wrinkle: It’s showcasing a faux wedding for a same-sex couple along with two faux weddings for opposite-sex couples.
Why would they be any different?
“That’s the thing,” says event host Tasha Connell. “It really isn’t any different. That’s what we want to portray to the guests. If you are a gay couple, you can’t legally get married in Colorado right now, but you can have a reception and a party while we wait for it to be legal. Or get married in another state and come home for the reception. If you are in love, you are in love and we want to show people how to celebrate that. We want this event to be like couples attending their own weddings.”
At the $15-a-head expo, you can witness three 90-minute ceremonies — Tuscan, Colorado Fall and Pantone Honeysuckle (which Connell says is the color of the year) — and mingle with the other attendees and vendors.
Twenty-two vendors will put on the ceremonies, with models playing the couples. Look for the photographers, florists, cakemakers, valets and stylists. Go to .
Last week I wrote here about the divorce expo coming to Denver on May 14. This is perfect timing. You can go to the bridal expo, get married and then, if it doesn’t work out, go to the divorce expo.
Spunky.
You’re a Sandy Duncan fan, you know it, so you’re happy to learn that the perennially peppy actress is coming to Aspen this summer to appear in the play “Becky’s New Car.” The play will open Theatre Aspen’s summer season June 24.
City spirit.
Isn’t it romantic? You can now enter the “Sweet Deal for Your Sweetheart Sweepstakes” at . Winners will be announced on KIMN radio Feb. 14. You get a set of four new tires for your Valentine . . . Annie’s Cafe and Bar at 3100 E. Colfax Ave. celebrates 30 years in biz from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday with Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Hostess Cupcakes, Sno Balls and Champagne . . . The newest graduates from Vivienne VaVoom‘s School of Burlesque present a showcase at 8 p.m. Thursday at Bender’s Tavern, hosted by headmistress VaVoom . . . Sez who: “Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.” William Shakespeare
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