AROUND TOWN
Beer is My Valentine 12 – 9 p.m., Feb. 13, Coda Brewing Company, 2101 Ursula Ct. Visit the Coda Facebook page for more information.
We’ve all had those moments. You know, those moments when you’re tearfully embracing a bottle of your favorite sauce and blaring the best audio crusade against love of 1980, courtesy of the J. Geils Band. Maybe those moments have happened in mid-February more often than other times of year. Maybe some sloppy, semi-melted and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates were consumed. Maybe not — who’s to say? Those moments are between you and your Netflix queue. But one thing’s for sure: They happen, often alone. Don’t be alone this year. Let beer — like really, really good beer — be your valentine in 2016, and let the bearded, non-tattooed team at Coda Brewing Company help you make it happen. Coda is hosting a “Beer is my Valentine” event this Saturday for everybody who ever has or has ever thought about playing “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M. on or around Feb. 14. The brewery will be release two new specialty suds at the event, one is a roughly 11 percent ABV imperial fruit stout with cherries and chocolate, and the other is a 6 percent ABV milk stout with strawberries and even more chocolate — yum. And with a subtle reference to “elegant music on stringed instruments,” plastered on its Facebook page, we kind of don’t know if they’re kidding, or they’re actually going to have harpists onsite. A more likely scenario, however, is that the Coda team will have some live folk/rock/blues/celtic tunes compliments of any number of the dozens of musicians who frequently perform at the brewery on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. So, please, replace beer with Celine’s “All By Myself” this year and let the Coda crew help you slosh yourself to fruity, chocolatey happiness.
Sounds Like Love 3:30 p.m., Feb. 14, Shalom Cares, 14800 E. Belleview Dr. Free. For more information, call 303-355-0232 or visit coloradohebrewchorale.org.
The sounds of love are many — especially on Feb. 14. There’s the positive side of the spectrum, which features a lot of moist, kissing noises, “dawww’s” and probably something along the lines of “Do You Believe in Magic?” by the aptly titled The Loovin’ Spoonful. Then, sadly, there’s the less-encouraging side of things: The lonely echo of a bottle cap being freed from its glass-bottle roots; the faint tap of fingers as the rap away at a keyboard amid a deep-dive Internet search to find ex-lovers; and a ton of sad-as-hell Bon Iver songs. Damn you, Vernon. Thankfully, the Colorado Hebrew Chorale is offering up a free concert this Sunday in honor of both ends of that spectrum, but lucky for the family-friendly audience, things swing toward the former, cheerier slices of life. The chorale will sing several songs, including “To Me, You Are Beautiful” and “Valentine’s Day is Not a Jewish Holiday” in a mixture of Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Be STILL My Heart! Tours start once a day throughout the weekend at the following times: 6:30 p.m., Feb. 12; 2 p.m. Feb. 13; 2 p.m. Feb. 14. The Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Free, but registration is required. Visit clyffordstillmuseum.org to register.
We thought free dates on Feb. 14 were only in the books we read. Nope. Apparently, they’re very real and very free this very weekend at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Smarty pants gallery guides will be offering free, roughly 45-minute tours of the museum once a day throughout the Valentine’s Day weekend. Free, engaging and genuinely enjoyable experiences can be hard to come by in the days around Feb. 14, so don’t miss this chance to enjoy this satin-colored gift courtesy of cupid and his bow-toting buddies.
ONSTAGE
Arabian Nights Curtains at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. on Sundays. The Aurora Fox Arts Center Studio Theater. 9900 E. Colfax Ave. Tickets start at $22. Call the box office at 303-739-1970 for more information.
The Aurora Fox Arts Center’s first show of 2016 is a lively retelling of a classic, timeless tale, and this weekend is your last chance to catch it before it disappears forever. You know the gist of it: Cunning Scheherezade survives 1000 nights with murderous King Shahryar by telling him tales so riveting he can’t help but keep her alive in order to hear the next installment of her compelling, winding yarns. Starring Aurora Fox favorite Lilli Hokama as Scheherezade and newcomer Abner Genece as Shahryar “Arabian Nights” at The Fox is an enchanting take on a bona fide staple.
One Man, Two Guvnors Curtains open at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays and Monday, Feb. 15, at The Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St. The show runs through March 26. Call 303-856-7830 for more information.
Winner of a slew of Tonys and Drama Desk Awards, this show offers a lot of farce set against London in the 1960s. Francis Henschall stumbles into a situation that results in him having two bosses, or “guvnors,” who are wildly intertwined but don’t quite know it. A whole lot of silliness ensues in a show that pits Monty
Python against Austin Powers against Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.