Entertainment

First Annual Boulder Block Party, 6 p.m., Friday, May 16, Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, www.facebook. com/bdrblockparty, 303-927-0802 $10...

Arvada Fine Arts Guild Annual Spring Membership Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through June 1...

Since 1994, Pierre Dulaine, subject of the 2013 documentary Dancing in Jaffa, has run a program called Dancing Classrooms, which teaches fifth graders the fundamentals of ballroom dance. The program teaches more than just footwork, it teaches the students elegance, ...

CLASSICS: ROMAN HOLIDAY...

Let’s start with something that’s apparently really, really hard for edgy comedy people to grasp: jokes about rape or the N-word suck, and you suck for using them. Yes, you are allowed to make them; they aren’t illegal or anything. But saying “nothing is off-limits ...

Anthony Doerr reading, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 21, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, www. BoulderBookStore. net, 303-447-2074, $5...

Thursday, May 15...

Life is a beautiful struggle,” begins the title-track of Swollen Members new album Brand New Day, which the hip-hop trio will be promoting at the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Thursday, May, 22. The lyric foreshadows an album embracing triumph over dark times...

Back in the aughts, the Bug Theatre Company consistently produced exciting, affecting theatre of a kind not commonly seen elsewhere. Its hauntingly beautiful 2003 production of Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues brought tears to my eyes. Its take on David Sedaris’ ...

Bob Dylan Tribute, 6:30 p.m., Sunday, May 18, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce Street, Boulder, www.etown. org, 303-443- 8696, $15l...

Shrek The Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 6...

Friday, May 9: APP. 8:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826...