12/28/08

Dear Members,

LOTS of new listings this week, including two Rocky Talk and two Helen Verba Lecture Series events featuring notable speakers; congrats to John Ensslin for arranging all four programs.

And as you'll also see, someone gave club manager Carmen Green a 2009 calendar for Christmas, and he's filled it with special events for the membership, such as the Clambake, Sinatra Night, and many others; please take an extra minute or two and scroll through all the listings below.

Also, our thanks to Dan Danbom, Joe Sinisi and Carmen for ferrying books to the club on Saturday, 12/27, for the Jan. 9-10 book sale. And you can still donate books, CDs, etc. by calling Dan at 303-722-1846; he'll come pick them up.

The club will reopen this Friday, Jan. 2.
Thanks
Bruce Goldberg
President, Board of Directors
Denver Press Club  

BUFFET DINNER:

• Friday, Jan. 2
  Manicotti, grilled vegetables, tossed salad, $10.

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Be A Guest Chef!

Benefit DPC! Make your favorite dish for members and friends.
Call Carmen 303-571-5260.

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BURRRR! Warm up your evening; join us at The Club for hot drinks and conversation in front of the fire.
Bar open at 4:30p.m.on JAN. 2.
Snacks!

  FUTURE EVENTS

(Reservation deadline is 24 hours in advance at www.blacktie-colorado.com, unless otherwise indicated. Lunches start at noon, unless otherwise indicated. Lunch events cost $17 for DPC members, $20 for nonmembers. No-shows will be charged.) 

Friday, Jan. 9 (6-9 p.m.) and Saturday, Jan. 10 (9 a.m.-noon), the club will hold its massive, semiannual book sale. On Friday night, it's open to members (and a maximum of one guest each). On Saturday, it's open to everyone, and we'll also have a pancake breakfast that morning.

THIS JUST IN: The book sale will have a one-time special feature this year, courtesy of Janis Frame, who recently closed her well-known Book Buffs store.  Janis generously donated many special items, including about 100 signed first editions from such authors as Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood and Richard Ford, plus other books. These will be priced at only $10 each, with all proceeds going toward a special, one-time Jean Tool scholarship.

As usual, all other books will be bargain-priced at $3 for hardbacks, $2 for trade paperbacks, 50 cents for mass-market paperbacks and $1.50 for CDs and videos.

NEW LISTING Tuesday, Jan. 13, 8 a.m.: Meet the creator of "The A-Team." Stephen J. Cannell, Emmy-award winning television writer and producer, will be the guest speaker when the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists kicks off its second season of "Rocky Talk - the Art of Conversation."
This highly successful series of breakfast conversations with visiting authors and newsmakers will be held in the auditorium of the Denver Newspaper Agency at 101 West Colfax Avenue.

It starts with an 8 a.m. continental breakfast, followed by an 8:30 a.m. talk.  Cannell created and scripted several successful television series, including "The Rockford Files," "Greatest American Hero," "The A-Team," "Hunter," "Riptide," "Hardcastle & McCormick," "21 Jump Street" and "Wiseguy."  He's also the author of a series of 12 suspense and mystery novels, including his latest book, "On the Grind."

Cost is $15. To RSVP, go to GO TO
 

 
NEW LISTING Thursday, Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m., DPC Board of Directors meeting. Members are encouraged to attend.

Saturday, Jan. 17, 10 a.m., JUMP (Version 2.0) is back!

Last year, when a wave of buyouts hit both The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, the Press Club hosted a series of workshops called, "The Jump" which featured talks at helping people make the transition from daily journalism to their next pursuits.

With the recent grim news about the Rocky Mountain News being up for sale, Colorado SPJ and the Press Club have decided to revive this effort with a series of Saturday morning sessions at the club. As before, these talks will feature speakers with tips on job hunting, financial advice, counseling and other topics. These sessions are free. Watch for details in the weeks ahead.

NEW LISTING Wednesday, Jan. 21, 8 a.m., Rocky Talk with novelist and comedy writer Merrill Markoe, at the Denver Newspaper Agency auditorium, 101 West Colfax Avenue.

We'll start with an 8 a.m. continental breakfast, followed by an 8:30 a.m. talk in the DNA auditorium. This event will be hosted by Rebecca Jones, former "critter editor" of the Rocky Mountain News. Kevin Fitzgerald, Denver's favorite standup comedian/veterinarian, also will join in the conversation.

Markoe was co-creator of the long-running "Late Night with David Letterman," where she was the creator of "Stupid Pet Tricks."   She's also the author of several novels, including "What the Dogs Have Taught Me," "Walking in Circles Before Lying Down" and her latest book, "Nose Down, Eyes Up." Her new book is about a man in the midst of a midlife crisis who gets some unexpected advice from his suddenly talking dog.

Cost is $15. To RSVP, go to GO TO 

Wednesday, Jan. 21, registration 5:30-6:30 p.m., program 6:30-8:30 p.m. The Design Print Denver Media Group presents "Small Business Accounting and Use Tax" program. Rich Hartfield from Hartfield, Sonnier & Johnson PC will explain changes in tax law and answer questions about tax and accounting. Caron Notarmuzi, Colorado Department of Revenue, will talk about the increasing number of businesses owing use tax in Colorado. Members, free; $8 for student nonmembers; $15 for nonmembers. RSVP with payment at 303-771-1578 or by emailing Jennifer Janness at piamsjen@aol.com by Jan. 16.

NEW LISTING Thursday, Jan. 29, 8 a.m., Helen Verba Lecture Series. Speakers are David Sheff and his son, Nic, who both have written best-selling memoirs about their struggle to overcome Nic's methamphetamine addiction.  The Denver Post co-sponsors this event. 

David Sheff is a veteran magazine journalist whose work has appeared in Playboy, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Outside and Wired. He will talk about his book, "Beautiful Boy - A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction."

After the father wrote about his experience in a magazine story, a book editor contacted Nic and asked him to write his own book. The result is "Tweak."
It starts with an 8 a.m. continental breakfast, followed by an 8:30 a.m. talk.

Cost is $15. To RSVP, go to: Go TO

NEW LISTING Friday, Jan. 30, Prime Rib Night. Details to follow.

Saturday, Jan. 31, is the deadline for entries into both the Thomas Hornsby Ferril Poetry Prize and the Flashbulb Fiction Award.

The FERRIL contest has two categories, student (entry fee $10) and professional (entry fee $20). Two cash prizes will be given in each category, $150 and $100, and each winner also will receive a one-year membership in the Denver Press Club. The first-place winners will be invited to accept the award and read in the company of Colorado's best-known poets and dignitaries at the 2009 Ferril benefit reading on May 22. QUESTIONS: questions@FerrilPrize.info INFO and RULES: Ferril

Make checks payable to the Denver Press Club and mail entries to Ferril Poetry Prize, c/o the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place, Denver CO 80204.

The FLASHBULB FICTION AWARD: Each entry should be no more than 500 words and should relate in some way to the state of Colorado. The Lighthouse Writer's Workshop and the Denver Press Club co-sponsor this award. Cash prizes: $150 and $100, and each winner also will receive a one-year membership to the DPC.

The first-place winners also will be invited to read at the May 22 event. The entry fee is $15. Make checks payable to the Denver Press Club and mail entries to Ferril Poetry Prize, c/o the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place, Denver CO 80204. Questions: questions@Flashbulb Award.info. click Flash

Thursday,Feb. 26, the Colorado Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will hold its annual awards event, at the Denver Newspaper Agency building. Cocktail reception 6-7 p.m. in the lobby; guest speaker and awards presentations follow. More details to come.

 Friday, March 6, 2009, the DPC will host an "Investigative Business Journalism" workshop all day, under the auspices of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University GO TO. More details TK.

Friday, March 13, Media Chili Cookoff. More details TK.

 Friday, April 17, 2009: The 15th Annual Damon Runyon Award Banquet, with Rick Reilly as honoree and guest speaker. More details to come.

NEW LISTINGS
Details to follow.
Friday, April 24, Lobster Night.

Friday, May 22, Mexican Fiesta Night.
 
Friday, June 26, BBQ at the DPC.
 
Friday, July 17, Sinatra Night. 
 
Friday, August 28, Clambake.
 
Friday, Oct. 23, Gridiron Show, at the Denver Marriott City Center.
 
Friday, Dec. 4, Members' holiday party.