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| by kenn on 1/13/2005 10:04:00 AM |
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Air Jordan, Jay-Z Expected for NBA Galas
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Are you ready for some basketball?
Denver heats up for the Feb. 17-20 NBA All-Star Weekend. Here's an early look at the party roster.
We hear Michael Jordan is taking over the deserted warehouse at 18th and Blake to create his own nightclub for the weekend. And he'll party with his shoes at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Feb. 17.
Jay-Z rules at The Church nightclub for a party he'll host on Feb. 18.
Next week, go to www.allstarweekend2005.com to see what NBA celeb-laden parties will be coming down at The Church, Serengeti, Vinyl, Funky Buddha and 2 A.M. nightclubs.
You've already read here that P. Diddy has booked Beyond nightclub at Denver Pavilions for the weekend and that star Nugget Marcus Camby has rented a sweet Cherry Hills mansion for Friday/Saturday night parties.
And the Fillmore will shake all weekend with Lil Jon on Feb. 17, Charlie Mack's Celebrity Gala Feb. 18, Public Enemy and Sugar Hill Gang on Feb. 19; Ludacris and Fabulous on Feb. 20.
4 top Denver toques to cook up P.R.
Hey, New York! Get ready to eat Denver-style.
Four of Denver's best chefs - Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca), Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja), Bryan Moscatello (Adega) and Matt Selby (Vesta) - have been tapped by the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau to cook a dinner at the legendary James Beard House in New York City on May 11. The event is dubbed Taste of Denver.
The foursome was actually chosen by the three major restaurant critics in town, Kyle Wagner (The Denver Post), John Lehndorff (Rocky) and Jason Sheehan (Westword). The bureau asked the paid palates to get together and list the top 10 cookers in Denver - in the order they should be asked. They met and hammered it out.
Convention Bureau spokeswoman Jill Strunk would not confirm the foursome mentioned above. She did say the tops of the roster were asked and accepted.
The bureau plans to announce the James Beard Dinner during Denver Restaurant Week, Feb. 26-March 4, but, of course, you read it here first.
Cooking at the Beard House is a prestigious and expensive ordeal. But Frontier Airlines is donating the plane tickets to fly the chefs to NYC; National Distributing will donate the wine. Strunk figures it will cost each restaurant about $2,500.
Why go to NYC to feed the city slickers our best grub?
"We're continuing to move the needle on Denver's culinary capabilities," says Strunk. "This and the national press we get continue to show Denver as a great culinary place."
City spirit
Dom Testa signs his young adult novel "Galahad 1: The Comet's Curse" at Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday. The host of MIX 100's "Dom and Jane Show" says it took him two years to write the book. "I was sleep-deprived already. Now I'm a zombie." ... Highstreet Speakeasy hosts a tsunami benefit Friday night ... My vote for the best new burger in town - the classic double-cheeseburger at the bar at Mirepoix at the JW Marriott ... Sez who: "Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money." Arthur Miller
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