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Penny Parker

Columnist

After six years as a business writer at The Denver Post, Parker opted to cross Colfax and join the Rocky as the On the Town columnist. Parker's background includes seven years as a feature writer at The (Everett) Herald, a Washington Post-owned newspaper in Washington state, and a short stint as managing editor for two weeklies near Bellevue, Wash. As a feature writer, she won numerous awards, as well as a Society of Business Editors and Writers award for business writing. Parker is a California native and graduate of San Francisco State University.

Parker also has a blog, which you can read here: Penny Parker - On the Town

Recent stories

PARKER: Sad day ends string of memorable scoops

February 27, 2009

This is the second saddest day of my life - second only to the day my mother died of brain cancer.

PARKER: Jobless exec now earns experience

February 26, 2009

Wanted: An executive-level job.

PARKER: Conroy fashions fab, say those in the know

February 25, 2009

Denver's homegrown duds designer Gabriel Conroy debuted his latest (and, some said, greatest) collection Friday with an eye-popping parade of pieces that will walk the catwalk during the first Aspen Fashion Week, Sunday through March 5.

PARKER: Restaurant Week tickles taste buds

February 24, 2009

Denver Restaurant Week got off to a divinely delish start Saturday night with anecdotal results that tickled many a taste bud. The fourth annual discount dining week - which offers three-course meals at $52.80 for two or $26.40 for one at nearly 200 metro-area eateries - earned a big fork's up from diners and restaurateurs I talked to over the weekend.

PARKER: Ex-restaurateur happy out of Denver kitchens

February 21, 2009

Former Denver restaurateur Mel Master stared at the revolving door that kept spinning and spilling out throngs of barstool sitters and diners into Elway's Cherry Creek on Tuesday night.

PARKER: Magazine wins in name dispute

February 20, 2009

Lawyers for 5280 magazine successfully obtained an injunction to make 5280 Steak House cease and desist from using the federally trademarked number that indicates that Denver is the Mile High City. The new name on the building at 1480 Arapahoe St. (formerly Gallagher's steak house) is Hickory Prime Steak House.

PARKER: Bertha Lynn isn't going away

February 19, 2009

If anyone is worried about the future of much-lauded Denver's 7 anchorwoman Bertha Lynn, you can relax . . . for now. Under her contract stipulations, she's not going anywhere, the station's news honcho, Byron Grandy, told me Wednesday afternoon.

PARKER: Channel 7 says Lynn not leaving

February 18, 2009

Colorado Black Journalists Association president Amani Ali may have acted prematurely when he sent a letter last week demanding that Denver's 7 management not lay off long-time anchor Bertha Lynn. According to the station' that rumor is false.

PARKER: The gospel truth: Music feels good

February 18, 2009

The world may be a mess, but how can you feel low while basking in local vocal Hazel Miller's glow?

PARKER: Humbling Dyce all in good fun

February 17, 2009

It's a good thing that Denver Theatres and Arenas chief marketing officer Erik Dyce has a skin as thick as Ozzy Osbourne's accent. A lesser man could have been brought to tears during the roast that was thrust upon Dyce at the Walnut Room on Friday night.