The best music, comedy, beer, food and drinks (2023)

Each spring, stoners from far and huge collect in Denver to have a good time 420, a vacation that’s sometimes greater than a mile excessive.

As a result of we all know there are completely different tokes for various of us, we’ve rounded up the perfect occasions and specials we might discover on the Entrance Vary. Whether or not you’re craving tunes, stomach laughs or a margarita in a bong, we have now you lined.

Music and comedy exhibits

As Denver’s greatest public 420 celebration, Mile High 420 Festival in Civic Center park, is a straightforward goal for criticism. And definitely, the crowds, security considerations and occasional controversies – such because the presence of under-21 individuals final yr – invite critical consideration. However at its coronary heart, the free occasion a bunch of individuals smoking weed in public for the aim of communing. And, because it seems, listening to stay hip hop from Rick Ross, Fivio International, Kaash Web page, Waka Flocka Flame, and The Alchemist. Hosted by Tommy Chong, with distributors, food and drinks.

Mile Excessive 420 Pageant runs 1-10 p.m. Thursday, April 20 (101 14th Ave. in downtown Denver). 21-and-up. Free tickets at milehigh420fest.com.

Your Mother’s Home – clearly one of many metropolis’s best-named venues – will host the stacked Wake ‘n Bake Periods: Vol. 420 on Thursday, with hip hop performances from Loktavious, Aye Dee, IMB Kash Royal, DrDBKush, Wes Dawg, OZV, MBK Jayy, and Soiled Dan.

2-6 p.m., tickets $10 through events.yourmomshousedenver.com (608 E. thirteenth Ave.).

The 420 on the Rocks live performance really takes place after April 20 – on this case, on Saturday, April 22 – however with units from Wiz Khalifa, Joey Bada$$, Motion Bronson, Berner, Marlon Craft, Chevy Woods and Little Unusual, it’s certain to be one other stoney celebration of a few of hip hop’s best. Notice: As a result of it’s Pink Rocks Amphitheatre, it’s an all-ages present.

6:45 p.m. on April 20. Bought out, however resale and late-ticket releases accessible (costs and charges differ); examine axs.com for updates (18300 Alameda Parkway, Morrison).

Reggae royalty The Marley Brothers, with Ziggy Marley, Stephen Marley, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Ky-Mani Marley and Julian Marley, return with their 420 Soul Shakedown, which incorporates traditional Bob Marley tunes as Marley Brothers originals. Visitors embody Sean Paul and Protoje (Wednesday, April 19) and Metal Pulse, a Lee “Scratch” Perry Tribute feat. Mykal Rose and Subatomic Sound System (April 20) on the mighty Pink Rocks Amphitheatre.

Exhibits begin at 6:30 each nights. Tickets: $79.50-$89.50 through axs.com (18300 Alameda Parkway, Morrison).

Whereas Chris Webby’s 420 present at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom is already offered out, the venue’s related room, The Different Facet, is internet hosting an April 20 present from Asian-American pop band and YouTube sensations North Star Boys, who we are able to assure should not the standard 420 fare. (Notice: down the block is the Roxy Theatre’s all-ages 420 Reef SZN present with Chayne Clouds, 7 p.m. on April 20; $29 through tickets.holdmyticket.com)

The Different Facet live performance: 7:30 p.m. 21-and-up. Tickets: $20-$100, cervantesmasterpiece.com (2635 Welton St., Denver).

Searching for laughs? Denver legend John Novosad (previously Hippie Man) is heading up Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues’s 420 units on April 20, as a part of the continued Lodo Comedy Present. This week’s comics embody Elliot Broder, Louis Jesse Ricardo Martinez, Kira MacGalen, Jake Cambron, Nic Dean and host Mark Masters of the Vail Comedy Pageant.

7 p.m. doorways. Tickets: $8-$40 through evenbrite.com (1624 Market St., Denver).

Potty Mouths: A THC Comedy Expertise takes over JAD’s Mile Excessive Smoke on Friday, April 21, with comics C.J. and Emil “on this pot-infused chortle fest,” organizers wrote. It’s additionally each first and third Friday of the month.

7:30-9:30 p.m. 21-and-up. Tickets: $15 through eventbrite.com (7667 Washington St., Denver).

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema places within the metro space are persevering with with their Dank April themed screenings, together with this week with stoner-classic “Dazed and Confused,” but in addition hypercolor horror “Mandy” and Nas and DMX’s gangster movie “Stomach.”

Screenings varied days at 4:20 p.m. Tickets: $14 every through drafthouse.com/denver (Sloan’s Lake, Littleton, and Westminster places).

Onerous-working Denver comedian and podcaster Matt Cobos will host comics from a wide range of stand-up backgrounds at Enigma Bazaar on April 20 as a part of The Savage 420 Comedy Present. “Comedians who love hashish will probably be allotting laughs on the massive day,” organizers wrote.

7 and 9 p.m. exhibits. 21-and-up. eating and full-service bar accessible. Tickets: $12 through savageent5280.com (4923 W. thirty eighth Ave., Denver).

The Scorching Field 420 Drag Present is one in all a rising variety of drag occasions themed round hashish, with appropriately weed-friendly performers CannaBliss Thorns, Brenda Telladaga, Marionette Clown Toy and Wizic, hosted by Kat Hazard at DV8 Distillery.

8-10 p.m. Friday, April 21. Tickets: $10 through eventbrite.com (2480 forty ninth St., Boulder).

Aurora’s deeply underappreciated Stampede venue, which frequently hosts sold-out Spanish-language concert events, is internet hosting the Baked’N Denver extravaganza on Saturday, April 22, with stay comedy and music (the schedule for which isn’t but posted), food and drinks, and extra.

Begins at 11 a.m. April 22. Tickets: $25 through stampedeclub.net (2430 S. Havana St., Aurora).

Foods and drinks specials

Los Chingones Mexican restaurant is rolling out a particular cocktail to appease hashish fanatics. The Medical Margarita is a tropical tequila drink made with ardour fruit, coconut, chile and CBD-infused glowing lemonade that comes served in a glass bong on dry ice, so it seems to be prefer it’s smoking. The drink prices $12 and is on the market completely on April 20-21.

Order a Medical Margarita at Los Chingones places in RiNo Denver (2463 Larimer St.), Denver Tech Middle (4959 S. Newport St.) and Fort Collins (3541 E. Concord Rd., #110).

To have a good time 420, Renegade Brewing Co. set out on a mission to “make a beer essentially the most like weed that we probably might,” mentioned head brewer Jack Meyer. The brewery partnered with Loud Labs in Wheat Ridge to acquire hemp terpenes, then added them to an IPA deemed Denver’s Dankest – and the beer delivers on its identify. Meyer used simply 3 ounces of liquid terpenes, which don’t comprise THC, for 270 gallons of beer to provide it an unmistakable hashish aroma.

Denver’s Dankest (6.1% ABV) is on the market on draft at Renegade Brewing Co. (925 W ninth Ave., Denver).

Terps seem like the new taste this 420. Fiction Beer Co. can be planning to debut three completely different recipes showcasing the similarities between hashish and hops. They embody a Mexican lager with Lemon Haze terpenes, a New England-style IPA with Pineapple Categorical terpenes and a blackberry slushie beer with Blackberry Kush terps. Pair your drink with a marijuana-themed spherical of trivia.

The get together begins at 2 p.m. on April 20 at Fiction Beer Co. (7101 E Colfax Ave, Denver).

TRVE Brewing will launch Nazareth, a “dank-as-hell” double IPA that returns to its lineup yearly about this time. The brewery can be promoting a restricted quantity of blacklight posters impressed by the label paintings to go along with it. The beer will probably be accessible beginning at 11 a.m. when the brewery opens and for individuals who are hungry, Music Metropolis Hen can have a particular crunch wrap on today solely.

Nazareth (8% ABV) will probably be accessible on draft and in 16-ounce cans completely at TRVE Brewing’s taproom (227 Broadway, #101, Denver).