Category: Denver Press Club
Guest Bartending at the Denver Press Club
Alana Watkins of Voca PR and I will be the guest bartenders at the Denver Press Club next Thursday, Sept. 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Please stop by if you can to enjoy a drink and say hello.
Denver Press Club Hall of Fame Dinner
DPC to Honor Mike Lupica with 2013 Runyon Award
The Denver Press Club is honoring sports journalist Mike Lupica with the 19th Annual Damon Runyon Award on Friday, April 12. Lupica will be glad to know that the previous four Runyon Award winners are still alive, breaking what appeared to be a frightening curse of some of the winners.
Tickets Available for the DPC’s 2012 Gridiron Show
Come see some of Denver’s biggest names in politics and media, onstage in the Denver Press Club’s annual Gridiron Show – a hilarious night of political and cultural satire and songs.
Denver Press Club’s 2012 Gridiron Show
7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 12
L2 Arts and Culture Center
1477 Columbine Street, Denver, CO 80206
Tickets: $20
Denver Press Club Hosts ‘Wild West Night’
The Denver Press Club is hosting its Wild West Night at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 23. The event is open to the public and includes silent and live auctions that will benefit the club and its endowment fund, which supports scholarships for Colorado journalism students, educational forums and other activities advancing the journalism profession.
Auction items include:
- Dinner with Reggie Rivers at the Denver Chop House
- Tickets to the Denver Center for the Performing Art’s “Heartbreak House,” including cocktails before the show and dinner with the cast afterwards
- A three-night stay in the Steamboat Springs condo of Charlie Brown, Denver City Council, District 6
- Books from local authors, gifts from local retailers and restaurants and more.
The event will be held at the club, 1330 Glenarm Place in Denver. Admission is $10, and reservations are suggested.
Tickets Available for the DPC’s 2011 Gridiron Show
If you like to see Tom “Troubleshooter” Martino get kicked around, good news. He joins Michelle Bachman, former Congressman Anthony Wiener and President Obama as targets of the 2011 Denver Press Club Gridiron Show. Tickets are $20 each, and the show will feature Gov. John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, Jim Benemann, Mike Landess, Cynthia Hessin, Bruce Goldberg, Ruth Darling-Goldberg and TaRhonda Thomas among others.
2011 Denver Press Club Gridiron Show
7 p.m., Friday, October 21
L2 Arts and Culture Center
1477 Columbine St., Denver
Purchase Tickets
Shermer Joins Shaw Construction as Marketing Manager
Shaw Construction has hired Jennifer Shermer as marketing manager. Shermer will manage the marketing and PR activities at Shaw, which provides construction services throughout Colorado and Wyoming. Shermer previously has worked at Grant Thornton and Fransen Pittman, and she is a board member of the Denver Press Club.
DPC Hosts Internationally Syndicated Cartoonist
Desperate for a laugh after a few days of subzero temperatures? Check out internationally syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Denver Press Club. Rubin, the artist behind the cartoon Rubes, will discuss “maintaining creativity and staying inspired — all while having to meet the daily deadline that creating a daily cartoon demands. Of course, because it’s a cartoon program, he uses many visuals.”
The program is free, and a pre-program dinner at the Denver Press Club is $10.
DPC’s Gridiron Show Lands Coveted Fourth Governor
What’s better than three Colorado governors participating in the Denver Press Club’s annual Gridiron Show?* The answer, of course, is four governors, which is what Gridiron producer Bruce Goldberg and his team have now secured for this year’s show: Governors Ritter, Owens, Romer and Lamm will join the show. Tickets are still available.
Also appearing will be John Hickenlooper, Gloria Neal, Jim Benemann, Greg Moody, Fred Brown, Steve Koenigsberg and a host of others.
*If you said two governors, Bruce would like you to join next year’s writing staff.
DPC Inducts 2010 Hall of Fame Class
The Denver Press Club inducted its 2010 Hall of Fame class: Mike McPhee, who recently retired from The Denver Post; Cynthia Hessin of Rocky Mountain PBS; Neil Westergaard, editor of the Denver Business Journal; and, posthumously, cable pioneer Bill Daniels; Greg Pearson, former journalism professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver; and William Byers, founder of the Rocky Mountain News.
Maria Pearson (daughter of posthumous inductee Greg Pearson), Mike McPhee, Cynthia Hessin, Neil Westergaard, Linda Childears (representing the late Bill Daniels).
2010 DPC Gridiron Tickets On Sale Now
DPC Hosting 60th Birthday Party for Bruce Goldberg
The Denver Press Club is hosting a 60th birthday party for Bruce Goldberg on Thursday, Aug. 26, at 6 p.m. The event will feature free appetizers and a cash bar, and Bruce requests no gifts other than donations to the DPC if you are so inclined.
What Is, “The Denver Press Club’s Jeopardy Night?’
I have a feeling it will end up more like Saturday Night Live’s version than Alex Trebek’s, but see for yourself this Thursday at 6 p.m. when I join the Denver Post’s Dan Haley, 9News’ Kirk Montgomery, PBS’s Cynthia Hessin, the Denver Business Journal’s Wayne Hicks and Pushkin PR’s Jon Pushkin, among others, at the Denver Press Club’s annual “Jeopardy Night.” The event is free and open to the public, so feel free to attend and heckle last year’s winner, Dan Haley.
The Capitol Steps to Perform Sunday
Had enough of divisive politics? Do you love talk-show radio? Hate it? How’s your health care plan? Been to a tea party lately? The Denver Press Club invites you to laugh your buns off as THE CAPITOL STEPS perform Sunday, May 16, starting at 5 p.m., at the June Swaner Gates Concert Hall in the Newman Center on the University of Denver campus.
Tickets cost $45.50, and you can purchase them through TicketMaster (add a $6.75 service fee) or The Newman Center Box Office (no service fee), open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. All ticket orders must go through TicketMaster or The Newman Center Box Office.
DPC Appoints Lester, Shermer as Marketing/PR Co-Chairs
The Denver Press Club has named Philosophy Communications’ Jennifer Lester as the co-chair to the Club’s Marketing and Public Relations Committee. Lester will head the committee with co-chair Jennifer Shermer of Fransen Pittman.
DPC Names P.J. O’Rourke Winner of 2010 Damon Runyon Award
I don’t know how Bruce Goldberg and the Denver Press Club does it year after year, but they have once again landed an impressive honoree for the DPC’s annual Damon Runyon award. This year’s winner is author and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke, who will be feted at a banquet in his honor on Friday, April 9, at the Denver Marriott City Center . Tickets are $100, or $80 for members of the DPC and PRSA Colorado (click here for tickets).
O’Rourke is the latest A-list winner of the award, and follows the likes of Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, Molly Ivins, Herb Caen, Pete Hamill, Ted Turner, Maureen Dowd, Tom Brokaw, David Halberstam, Ed Bradley, Carl Hiaasen, Seymour Hersh, George Will, Bob Costas, Tim Russert and last year’s winner, Rick Reilly.
PRSA/DPC Present ‘Bad Press Release Theater’
PRSA Colorado and the Denver Press Club host “Bad Press Release Theater” tomorrow (Tuesday) night from 6-10 p.m. Improv performers include Steve Koenigsberg, Lisa Cutter and Elisabeth Monaghan of PRSA, and Cynthia Hessin, Adam Goldstein and Bruce Goldberg of the DPC. The PR folks will play the part of media pros, and vice versa. Details are here.
Ticket Deadline for DPC’s ‘Gridiron Show’ Today
Today is the deadline to purchase tickets to the Denver Press Club’s 2009 “Gridiron Show.” Among those who will be on stage are Bruce Goldberg, John Hickenlooper, Bill Owens, Andrew Hudson, Mike Landess, Cynthia Hessin, Reggie Rivers, Neil Westergaard, TaRhonda Thomas, Gregg Moss and Steve Saunders.
The details are:
Denver Press Club’s 2009 Gridiron Show
Friday, Oct. 23 (silent auction at 5:30 pm, dinner at 6 pm and entertainment at 7 pm)
Marriott Center City
1701 California Street, Denver, CO 80202
Click here to purchase tickets
Tickets Available for Denver Press Club’s ‘2009 Gridiron Dinner’
Come see some of Denver’s biggest names in politics and media, onstage in the Denver Press Club’s annual Gridiron Show – a hilarious night of political and cultural satire and songs. The details are:
Denver Press Club’s 2009 Gridiron Dinner
Friday, Oct. 23 (silent auction at 5:30 pm, dinner at 6 pm and entertainment at 7 pm)
Marriott Center City
1701 California Street, Denver, CO 80202
Click here to purchase tickets
‘The Jens’ to Offer Drinks, PR Advice at the DPC
Dig out your copy of Mr. Boston’s Bar Guide to find the most difficult drink around: Philosophy Communication principals Jennifer Lester and Jennifer Miller will be guest bartenders at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm, on Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 6 – 8 p.m. All tips will benefit HomeAid Colorado, a nonprofit that builds homes for Colorado’s temporarily homeless, and Teaching Humane Existence (T.H.E.), sponsor of The Watch House project, a residential campus facility for repeat sex offenders.
Tickets Available for Denver Press Club’s ‘2009 Gridiron Dinner’
Come see some of Denver’s biggest names in politics and media, onstage in the Denver Press Club’s annual Gridiron Show – a hilarious night of political and cultural satire and songs. The details are:
Denver Press Club’s 2009 Gridiron Dinner
Friday, Oct. 23 (silent auction at 5:30 pm, dinner at 6 pm and entertainment at 7 pm)
Marriott Center City
1701 California Street, Denver, CO 80202
Click here to purchase tickets
2009 Denver Gridiron Dinner Set for Oct. 23
What do Mayor Hickenlooper, Reggie Rivers, Cynthia Hessin, Fred Brown, Gregg Moss, Steve Saunders, former Gov. Owens, Bruce Goldberg, Andrew Hudson, Neil Westergaard, Tom Clark and I have in common? If you guessed something to do with the federal investigation into the Denver Players prostitute ring, well, I can neither confirm nor deny that. But I can confirm that we will all be at the Denver Press Club’s annual Gridiron Show on Friday, Oct. 23.
Quote (Actually Paraphrase) of the Week
“In other news, the Denver Press Club reported record profits this year due to the explosion in farewell parties for Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News reporters.”
–- Cynthia Hessin, Rocky Mountain PBS, during the Fake Newscast bit at the DPC’s 2008 Gridiron Show
Flacks to Add Color to Annual DPC Gridiron Dinner
Warm up those video cameras — the Denver Post’s Bill Husted is reporting that a few as-yet-unnamed PRSA Colorado members will join Gov. Bill Ritter, Mayor John Hickenlooper and others as performers at the Denver Press Club’s annual Gridiron Show on Sunday, Oct. 26 (tickets are here).
Denver Press Club Rises from the Ashes
After years of operating in the red, the Denver Press Club appears to have turned the corner and is financially self-sufficient.
Husted: There’s a 40 Percent Chance Rick Reilly Will be Dead in Two Years
If the Denver Press Club offers to make you its Damon Runyon Award winner, you might want to think twice. Of the 15 past winners, six have since died – Tim Russert, Mike Royko, Herb Caen, Molly Ivins, David Halberstam and Ed Bradley.
NBC’s Russert to Be Honored with DPC’s Damon Runyon Award
The Denver Press Club will honor NBC political analyst Tim Russert with its 14th annual Damon Runyon award. The banquet is Sunday, April 13, at the Denver Marriott City Center. Tickets presumably are going fast and can be found here.
