You know summer is coming when you get the lineup for the Elway’s Backyard Summer Music Series. Well, put on your sundress, Dolores. Here it is.
Now in its seventh year, the weekly Wednesday night jamborees are wildly successful — for mingling as much as the music. The backyard opens at 5 p.m., the bands play 6:30-9 p.m. What you do after that is your business.
The series starts with local fave Opie Gone Bad on June 22. The Parkside Band brings in violin-infused rock on June 29. Flobots founder Andy “ROK” Guerrero comes in with Bop Skizzum on July 6. Something Underground brings its brotherly harmonies July 13. Neil Diamond tribute band Diamonds Are Forever jumps on board July 20. Police tribute band Message in a Bottle parks its black and white on July 27. Funkiphino is funky on Aug. 3. New Sensations means classic ’80s rock on Aug. 10, same for The Eighties Band on Aug. 17. U2 tribute band Under a Blood Red Sky shuts it down Aug. 24.
“I went heavier on what worked last year — the tribute bands,” say general manager Andrew Chapman.
Hanging around.
Neiman Marcus has some serious hang-ups. The store recently converted from clear plastic hangers to black plastic hangers, so it has 4,000 of the clear ones sitting around, waiting for a few good causes.
Nancy Sagar, director of PR for the Denver store, says, “We’d love to distribute them to charities that need them.” Call Sagar at 303-329-2600 and she won’t hang up on you.
Removed.
The score was 101-100 at the Nuggets’ penultimate game Monday night when the TV camera caught a couple arguing, pretty heavy. The guy then put his hand out and covered his girlfriend’s mouth. Cut — and ouch. It was posted on and under the title “Keep Your Domestic Squabbles Out Of The Pepsi Center, People.” The video was removed, but only after 23,724 views.
Arts.
Pop-artist icon Peter Max is at Fascination Street Gallery 1-4 p.m. today — a very generous, sweet guy . . . Fiber artist Carol Ann Waugh’s exhibition opened with a reception Friday night at Ice Cube Gallery . . . Blink!, the hit exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, ends today.
City spirit.
Stars from “Days of Our Lives” come to town 10 a.m-2 p.m. May 7 at the Marriott Denver South to promote a new book on the show. Look for Colorado natives Molly Burnett and Casey Deidrick (“Melanie Kiriakis” and “Chad DiMera”), James Scott (“EJ DiMera”), Bill Hayes (“Doug Williams”), Susan Hayes (“Julie Williams”) and Deidre Hall (“Marlena Evans”) . . . In a salute to Denver’s esteemed role in the medical-marijuana biz, Wynkoop Brewing Co. has a new beer, Metacool Maltuwanna, described as a “tea-colored, malty imperial ale enhanced with hemp seeds” . . . Sez who: “No wire hangers! Ever!” Joan Crawford (or was it Faye Dunaway?)
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