Penny Parker’s On The Town: Celebrating two hot tomatoes

The Three Tomatoes/Denver Film Society 35^th Anniversary Party celebrates the remaining Two Tomatoes – Peggy Beck and Joanne Katz - during a celebration for the catering company and Film Society Saturday at the Denver Film Center at Elizabeth and Colfax.

The event will incorporate the entire Denver FilmCenter – including bars on the patio and a tented lounge, food/film pairings within each theater, cocktails and appetizers in Henderson’s Lounge and the lobby, and fun extras during the course of the evening.

Many sponsors of the event have donated air jordan 13 their time and services to transform the Denver Film Center into the supper club it was meant to be. Following food and cocktails, guests will dance to the wee hours to celebrate 35 years of excellence from two Denver institutions.

Tickets are $250 per couple or $135 per person and can be purchased at www.DenverFilm.org.  All net proceeds will benefit the Denver Film Society.

Get ready to mangia!

Denver Restaurant Week(s), the most bang for the buck you can have in a local eatery, is set next year for Feb. 23 through March 8. The event, where a couple can dine from a multi-course menu for $52.80 (singles for $26.40), features some of the metro-area’s finest dining spots with real meal deals.

Registration for next year’s participation for restaurants begins this November, and restaurants and menus will be posted on the www.denverrestaurantweek.com website early next year.

This year’s Denver Restaurant Week was a huge success by setting a new record of 339 participating eateries – the most in any restaurant week in the nation, according to organizer Visit Denver.

Based on surveys, a record 404,400 meals were served during DRW 2012, up 12 percent over the total meals served in 2011.

All pro

James C. Hamilton, a founding member of The BOSS Society, has teamed up with longtime pal and business partner two-time Super champ Rod Smith, former wide receiver of The Denver Broncos, to launch a wealth tour that will stop in Denver from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at 3525 S. Tamarac Drive, Suite 140.

Attendees will hear personal testimonies from Hamilton and Smith and learn more about their journeys to success. For tickets information, call 1-888-348-2201 or visit www.winningopp.biz.

Changing spaces

Embassy Suites Denver – Downtown/Convention Center has hired Ed Blair, former GM of The Oxford Hotel in Denver, as the new general manager.

Denver-based Sage Hospitality, co-owner of The Oxford, announced last month that it had acquired the management contract for the 403-room convention center hotel, and it hired Blair to take over leadership of the property.

Blair is a member of Denver’s Road Home, the commission to end homelessness in Denver by 2015, and a member of the Business Advisory Council for Denver’s Road to Work.

Taking Blair’s place at the Oxford is Afsi Bird as GM for the historic 80-room hotel. Bird joins The Oxford from Hotel Terra Jackson Hole.

And in further hotel news, Beaver Creek’s The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa has hired Timothy H. Wolfe as general manager.

Wolfe has been a member of the Colorado Tourism Office Board of Directors since 2009 and recently began serving as CTO’s chairman.

His other claims to fame include running 20 Boston marathons and adopting a girl from China, then starting a nonprofit to help other families going through the experience.

Eat, drink, be local

Whole Foods Market Denver and Denver Beer Co. are throwing the first annual “Eat Drink Be” local event from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Denver Beer Co., 1695 Platte St., Denver.

Attendees who bring a canned foot item will air jordan 14 receive $1 off their first beer. Brew samples from 20 Colorado companies, live music and more will be offered.

Aff food donations will go to Metro CareRing, Denver’s oldest and largest food pantry. For more information, go to www.metrocarering.org.

The seen

Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern seen wandering around Denver this week on his gastronomical quest for his show Bizarre Foods. He ate (God knows what) at El Taco de Mexico at 714 Santa Fe Drive. He told eaterdenver.com that Denver has an “obsession with testicles,” which is a reference to Rocky  Mountain Oysters.

Read more at: http://denver.eater.com/archives/2012/09/12/zimmern-testicle-connoisseur-seeks-the-best-rocky-mountain-oysters.php.

Eavesdropping on a woman to her boyfriend at Mail It! Pack It! Ship It! in Cherry Creek North after he brought her a coffee because he was out the night before at Shotgun Willie’s: “So, it’s a guilt coffee?”

Did you hear that I have a new column, “Mile High Life,” in Colorado Community Media’s 17 weekly newspapers circling Denver? Be sure to like my Facebook page! Also, here’s where you go to get my column emailed to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I’m now the social-media liaison for the Mile High Chapter of the Colorado Restaurant Association, so read my latest restaurant news there. My email: penny@blacktie-llc.com.