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The "Queen of Sass" - author of the best-selling memoir Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship Cathie Beck (aka ColoradoBiz Magazine's "The Wine Wench"), put a question or two to Emmy Award-winning stand-up comedienne, "Queen of Mean," Lisa Lampanelli, last week. Lampanelli appears at the Comedy Works Wednesday through Saturday, honing material for her upcoming Comedy Central special.



Lampanelli married for the first time a few weeks ago to a… Continue

Comedy Works has it all



I am a devotee of Wende Curtis, the genius who launched the original Comedy Works on Larimer Street in downtown Denver and who then went on to open an even larger (and equally successful) Comedy Works at Landmark Plaza in Greenwood Village.



I know all about her working class beginnings, her self-made business woman story (which is heart stopping and a little bit unbelievable) – and how her raison d’être is to give every stand-up comic the… Continue

You may already have a “perfect wine” for that “special occasion” tucked deep in your psyche. Perhaps you enjoyed a beautiful Silver Oak for your wedding anniversary and so, when anyone has an anniversary, you know just the wine to give.



Perhaps someone treated you to a Sonoma Valley Chardonnay that fell to the palate like so much lemony butter at your last birthday, that you can’t help but buy that same bottle for each and every time… Continue

If it smells good — drink it!



It’s no surprise that pungent waves of multiple aromas arise from most any enjoyable glass of wine. But there’s a science behind why a wine tastes the way it does and that science involves our noses and lots of pesky facts involving four-and five-syllable words.





We’re not going down that brainiac-laden boulevard because huge encyclopedias of olfactory infused terms already do that. Instead, we’re going to talk about “the… Continue