Oscar and Grammy Award winner Jamie Foxx will join the roster of celebrities at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation’s Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show, beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel, 1550 Court Place.

This is the largest single fundraiser benefiting people with Down syndrome. The event features silent auction items,  live auction items, a sumptuous dinner, two Quincy Jones Exceptional Advocacy Award winners, an ambassador video, and an inspirational fashion show featuring models with Down syndrome and celebrity escorts.

In addition to Foxx, Emmy winner Alec Baldwin, Oscar and Emmy winner Helen Hunt, Oscar nominee Laura Dern, award-winning actor John C. McGinley, supermodel Beverly Johnson, Nuggets players Kenneth Faried, JaVale McGee and Arron Afflalo, Broncos players Britton Colquitt, Ben Garland, Malik Jackson and Brandon McManus, pro golfer David Duval, and self-advocates Steven Dulcie, Brad Hennefer and DeOndra Dixon will escort Down syndrome models on the runway.

For tickets, visit www.BeBeautifulBeYourself.org or contact Ashley Miltgen at 303-468-6669, amiltgen@globaldownsyndrome.org.

Southlands Shopping Center in Aurora announces the grand opening of H&M, one of the world’s largest fashion retailers, at noon Thursday. The new 21,000-square-foot store will feature women’s, men’s and children’s apparel as well as accessories, shoes and cosmetics.

Established in Sweden in 1947, H&M is one of the world’s largest fashion retailers with a mission to offer fashion and quality at the best price including its designer collaborations and quick-to-market versions of runway fashions.  H&M features a wide range of styles, from basics to update to clothes that reflect the latest international trends.

Jeff Nemec, Southlands’ general manager noted, “The opening of H&M at Southlands is exciting as we continue to recruit top retailers to complement our existing store mix and to better serve our customers and community at large.”

H&M will open at Southlands with much fanfare. Beyond Thursday’s grand opening, there are planned festivities and giveaways through Sunday.

Noon Thursday:

* First 200 people in line receive scratch cards worth between $10 – $300 value and a goodie bag.

* $10 off and $5 off coupons given throughout opening day to customers entering H&M Southlands, while supplies last.

* Live DJ.

 Noon Friday:

* One hundred $50 H&M gift cards given away each day at noon. While supplies last.

* Bring H&M receipts totaling $75 or more, dated Oct. 23 – 26 from Southlands H&M to H&M reception area (near Southlands fire pit) between noon and 6 p.m. and receive a free Southlands gift bag with a $20 Southlands gift card, H&M 20 percent off a single item purchase, a free gift and exclusive offers from Southlands retailers and restaurants, while supplies last.

Southlands Shopping Center is a 1.7 million-square-foot outdoor shopping center at E-470 and  Smoky Hill Road in Aurora. For more information, visit www.shopsouthlands.com.

You’ll need to wear shoes to see the Barefoot Contessa Nov. 19 at the Paramount Theater, 1621 Glenarm Place.

The show, “The Pleasures of Cooking and Entertaining” plus a Q&A session, begins at 7:30 p.m. Ina Garten, a fantastic Food Network star is known for her ability to make sensible recipes with a flair from her Hamptons home.

For tickets (starting at $49.50) , go to www.altitudetickets.com/event/ina-garten-the-barefoot-contessa-1440/.

Eavesdropping on a man: “I made the mistake of answering the phone and it was a political call. Not even a Robocall. So I told them I vote for the Communist Party. Maybe they will leave me alone now. Or call the FBI.”

What did Jax owner Dave Query know that the rest of us didn’t when he chose Kansas City as his first restaurant outpost beyond Colorado’s borders?

Call it coincidence, but the first Kansas City Jax opened in September in a new development adjacent to the tourist attraction Country Club Plaza in the same year that the Kansas City Royals are World Series bound. This new fish house pond could prove profitable in a town that’s waited 29 years for the team to co-host the ultimate baseball competition.

For those who know KS, the restaurant, open from 4 p.m. daily, is located in the Plaza Vista complex (4814 Roanoke Parkway) adjacent to the water-fountain-packed Country Club Plaza and 7 miles west of Kauffman Stadium, the Royals’ home turf.

About sticking his culinary toe in uncharted territory, Query told the Kansas City Business Journal: “We don’t want to go and teach people how to eat good food or what good food is; we want to go to a community where there’s a lot of good food and a lot of intelligence going on,” Query said. “We’re just blown away by the great restaurants and bars that are in the Kansas City area. It’s phenomenal. It doesn’t get as much ink as it deserves with the caliber of craft and culinary skill that’s going on in that town.”

Query opened the first Jax Fish House in 1994 in Boulder and founded the Big F Restaurant Group, which includes nine different concepts. For more information on the Kansas City location, go to www.jaxfishhouse.com/kansas-city/.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts hosts its 35th annual signature fundraiser, Saturday Night Alive, on March 7 with entertainment by Jessie Mueller and Jarod Spector. Tickets are now on sale at denvercenter.org/sna.

Mueller and Spector, the two stars from the Tony-nominated hit Broadway show, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” will entertain Saturday Night Alive patrons with an evening of Broadway songs and pop tunes. Mueller won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Carole King.

Spector received a 2014 Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and also is well known for playing Frankie Valli in more than 1,500 performances of “Jersey Boys”. These two stars represent the best of Broadway today.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts PR pro Susan Stiff will chair the event this year.

In addition to the song stylings of Mueller and Spector, Saturday Night Alive attendees will be able to participate in a surprise box sale, computerized silent auction and bidding via smartphone, dinner, desserts and dancing in the Seawell Grand Ballroom.

Hosted by the Denver Center Alliance, Saturday Night Alive brings together a crowd of 800 leaders from the Denver community for a celebration of the theater. Net proceeds from the event, totaling more than $17.4 million over the past 35 years, support DCPA Education.

Saturday Night Alive is held on March 7 in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex at Speer and Arapahoe. Tickets to Saturday Night Alive are on sale; individual tickets start at $400 and tables of 10 start at $6,000. Call 303-446-4815 or visit www.denvercenter.org/sna.

Many people have claimed that Bruce Goldberg is all wet, and it was oh-so-true recently when the president of the board of directors of the Denver Press Club fulfilled his self-appointed mission to swim 2 miles (64 laps) as a fundraiser for the DPC.

Board member Dick Nosbisch and club member Jude DeLorca witnessed the feat along with several bystanders, which took place at the outdoor pool of the Jewish Community Center.

“This was a distance swim record for me,” said Goldberg, who wanted to match his birthday laps and raise money for the nation’s oldest press club at the same time. “Now that people know that I actually did this, I hope they’ll continue making donations to help the club.”

More than $1,100 in donations came in prior to today’s swim, and those who wish to support the DPC can make a donation at http://www.gofundme.com/fatd38.

The donations help support scholarships for journalism majors at University of Northern Colorado, University of Denver, University of Colorado, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Colorado State University-Fort Collins and Metropolitan State University of Denver; and to operate the club.

Today, the club’s nearly 400 members represent print and broadcast media, advertising and public relations, and an assortment of other professions. The roster has included Pulitzer Prize journalists, cartoonists and other notables, such as Damon Runyon, Eugene Field, Gene Fowler, Frederick G. Bonfils, Palmer Hoyt, Lowell Thomas, Lee Taylor Casey, Paul Conrad, Pat Oliphant, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Carl Akers, Starr Yelland, Stormy Rottman, Lou Kilzer, Greg Lopez, Bob Palmer, Gene Amole, Sam Lusky and Don Kinney.

As one of the few press clubs that maintains its own building, the Denver Press Club has excellent facilities for serving both its members and the community. In addition to complete meal and bar service on its main level in the dining room, the club offers a large meeting and banquet facility on the second floor.

For more info, go to www.denverpressclub.org.

Everyone who reserves a St. Jude Dream Home ticket by midnight, Friday also will be entered in a bonus drawing for a 2015 Lincoln MKC valued at more than $33,000, courtesy of Landmark Lincoln, Sill TerHar Lincoln, and Lincoln Motor Company. More than half of the 12,500 tickets have been sold and tickets sold out last year.

A limited number of $100 tickets are available for the St. Jude Dream Home house, valued at approximately $500,000. Winners of the house and other prizes will be announced Nov. 13 on Fox-31 and Channel 2.  Proceeds from the giveaway will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Tickets can be reserved at www.dreamhome.org or by calling 1-800-276-7695.

Eavesdropping on a woman telling her boyfriend that she had a pedicure appointment: “Did you write it down on a sticky note?”

She pointed to her head. “No, it’s up here.”

“Yeah, that’s like a sticky note without the sticky.”