“Clueless” is totally buggin’ on stage
Saturday. As one of the most underappreciated yet sparkling comedies of all time, director Amy Heckerling’s endlessly funny “Clueless” is finally getting its stage due with shows featuring its biggest cast member. (Paul Rudd won’t be there, sadly.)
The film’s 30th anniversary brings a screening of the quintessential ’90s teen movie and an on-stage conversation with star Alicia Silverstone to the Buell Theatre on Saturday, July 26. It’s one of only two announced stops for the show thus far, and the movie will only be 30 once, so if you’re totally buggin’, grab some tickets ($72-$211) at axs.com. The all-ages show starts at 7 p.m. at 1350 Curtis St. in Denver. — John Wenzel
Frontier Days’ country stars
Saturday. Some of the best entertainers at this year’s Cheyenne Frontier Days are coming close to the end of the event that started July 21 in Wyoming, with a Friday, July 25, concert from Cody Johnson and Randy Hauser; and Megan Moroney and Waylon Wyatt finishing the concert series on Saturday, July 26.
Those follow huge shows from Luke Bryan, Brookes & Dunne, Travis Tritt and others, but there’s still plenty to see the annual cowboy gathering that concludes on Sunday, July 27, including competitive bronc riding, the “chuckwagon” experience and other Western foodways, a family-friendly carnival, site tours, dancing, an Old West museum, an Indian Village and, on Saturday, the big, 11 a.m.-noon airshow. Visit cfdrodeo.com/buy-tickets for tickets, directions and more. — John Wenzel
A truly Mile Long Table
Saturday. More than a decade ago, I sat down to eat at a table that stretched a mile and a half along a street in downtown Phoenix. The locally organized event was cute and communal, and the crowds had cleaned out several food trucks by the time I arrived.
At 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 26, a Mile Long Table will be set at downtown Denver’s Auraria Campus. If that wasn’t enough adherence to the British imperial unit of measurement for you, get this: It sits 5,280 people. Longer Tables, a nonprofit based in Denver, has put on more than a hundred feasts since launching in 2013 with the goal of forming bonds among neighbors and residents. Serendipity Catering will prepare a lunch using more than two tons of food inspired by the Auraria neighborhood. The minimum donation per person is $5.28. Reserve a spot at milelongtable.org. — Miguel Otárola
Of Montreal’s kaleidoscope
Saturday. Few indie rock bands are as surprising and genuinely experimental as Of Montreal, the melody-drenched project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Barnes. With loose roots in Denver’s influential Elephant Six music collective (think Apples in Stereo and Dressy Bessy) and strong ones in Athens, Ga., the band’s weird, wonderous sound has evolved into a theatrical tour de force of psychedelic imagery, wordplay and sly humor.
Of Montreal returns with its beefed up stage show at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, July 26, to perform its opus “Sunlandic Twins” as part of its 20th anniversary. Tickets are $28, ages 16-and-up. Show starts at 8 p.m. at 3263 S. Broadway in Englewood. axs.com — John Wenzel