Cherry Creek Food & Wine reimagined, Maria Bamford’s Denver return and more things to do this week

Fighting hunger with nutrient (and wine)

Through Aug. 14. The 12th yearly Cherry Creek North Food & Wine, which kicked disconnected Aug. 11 and continues done Aug. 14, has been reimagined for 2021, organizers said. That’s not uncommon during the pandemic, but it is for an wholly bully cause: This year, a percent of proceeds volition payment Food for Thought Denver and its “mission to combat puerility hunger successful the Denver community,” according to organizers.

Along with that is simply a bevy of upscale nutrient and vino purveyors taking portion successful the four-day event, which offers tiny bites, seminars and demos, and a Grand Tasting league astatine Fillmore Plaza to adjacent it retired — with an accent this twelvemonth connected section chefs and mixologists. See the database of participating restaurants, docket and much astatine ccnfoodandwine.com.

“The Stories of Cesar Chávez” was a one-man amusement performed by seasoned Los Angeles histrion Fred Blanco astatine the 2010 Boulder Fringe Festival. The long-running lawsuit returns done Aug. 22. (Provided by Boulder Fringe Festival)

Boulder’s fringe moves to the center

Through Aug. 22. The yearly Boulder International Fringe Festival has agelong taken cues from its namesake Edinburgh Fringe Festival, booking diverse, experimental and groundbreaking autarkic artists successful a theatrical melee of drama, laughs and weirdness. The Aug. 11-22 lawsuit — presented successful “new, unrecorded and virtual formats,” according to organizers — includes dozens of creation performances and chances to brushwood up connected emerging trends successful the creation world.

Tickets are affordable astatine $6 to $12 per show, and occasionally there’s adjacent a escaped event, specified arsenic the 7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 13, “Triple Bypass: Three Ten Minute Plays About Living for Death and Dying for Life.” Each time features a dozen-plus much shows to take from, including late-night options. Visit boulderfringe.com for the afloat docket and participating artists. Shows instrumentality spot astatine Boulder’s Junkyard Social Club, The Spark, Dairy Arts Center, DV8 Distillery and different venues.

The Boulder Rez Marathon offers aggregate introduction points for superior and not-so-serious marathon runners. (Provided by BBSC Endurance)

Get escaped for Boulder Rez Marathon

Saturday. Lace up your moving shoes: Your accidental to acceptable your summertime idiosyncratic grounds is here. On Saturday, Aug. 14, BBSC Endurance is hosting the Boulder Rez Marathon, featuring a 10K, 3/4 marathon, fractional marathon, marathon relay and, of course, a marathon.

The people for each events is mostly flat, with 200 feet of elevation summation successful the marathon arsenic you tally your mode done ungraded roads and trails. The event-packed time begins astatine the Boulder Reservoir astatine 6 a.m. for packet pickup, and the marathon kicks disconnected astatine 7:15 a.m. Prices statesman astatine $55 for the 10K and summation to $110 for the marathon.

Tickets for the lawsuit are astatine flatironsevents.com. For much information, packet pickup, race-day registration and commencement times, sojourn bbscendurance.com oregon interaction info@bbsctri.com. 5565 51st Street, Boulder.

Maria Bamford, a erstwhile headliner for Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival, returns with shows astatine Comedy Works South starting Aug. 19. (Robyn Van Swank, provided by High Plains)

Maria Bamford’s beautiful, twisted mind

Aug. 19-21. Veteran stand-up Maria Bamford, a darling of hardcore nerds and critics, has remade her assemblage implicit the years with painfully intimate (and hilarious) depictions of intelligence unwellness and household life. From her tours, specials and web shorts to her dearly departed Netflix sitcom, “Lady Dynamite,” Bamford’s unique, highly malleable dependable has helped determination the trade and creation signifier forward.

She besides has a sick, irreverent consciousness of wit — a trait galore bully comics share. As portion of her archetypal Denver dates since the pandemic began, Bamford volition header Comedy Works South, Thursday, Aug. 19, done Aug. 21. Tickets are $30 and shows instrumentality spot astatine the Landmark improvement successful Greenwood Village, 5345 Landmark Place. Visit comedyworks.com oregon telephone 720-274-6800 for more.

— John Wenzel: 303-954-1642 oregon jwenzel@denverpost.com

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