Things to do in Denver today, June 14: Table reads, “Do the Right Thing,” a comics podcast and Test Kitchen

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Ashley Dean

Jun. 14, 2017, 11:21 a.m.

Zacharia Spriggs reads comics and drinks coffee at Mutiny Information Cafe, Broadway. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Tonight at Ratio Beerworks, 2920 Larimer St., a cast of local comedians, musicians, actors and more will do table reads of scripts from favorite movies and TV shows.

Here’s your cast:

Adrian Mesa (Comedian: Comedy Works, Those Who Can’t)
Timmi Lasley (Comedian, Actress)
Ned Garthe (of Ned Garthe Explosion)
Cody Devine (LLL & Primos Wrestling Champ)
Katie Bowmann (Comedian, Improvisor)
Karen Wachtel (High Plains Comedy Festival)
Alex Weimer (The Bug Theatre)

It’s free and it starts at 8 p.m. Arrive early to grab a beer and grab a seat.

Today’s classic film feature at the Esquire Theatre, 590 S. Broadway, is Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” — an account of racial tensions reaching a breaking point on a summer afternoon in a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Showings are at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and tickets are $8.50.

Drop by Mutiny Information Café, 2 S. Broadway, for a recording of the Mutiny Comics podcast from 8-10 p.m.

Hosts R. Alan Brooks and Jordan Froelich will be talking with Karl Christian Krumpholtz and Alex Graham about their comics, the idea of using comics to tell stories that don’t involve super-heroes, and how they got into comics.

And Test Kitchen is back again tonight with 11 up-and-coming artists testing themselves in front of an audience and guest A&Rs Sur Ellz and R. Ford.

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Zacharia Spriggs reads comics and drinks coffee at Mutiny Information Cafe, Broadway. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)