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Peak Thrift Is Packed With Surprising Finds — Including Its Mission

By Luke Leavitt
Apr 26, 2016

If you peak into Peak Thrift in northwest's Denver Chaffee Park neighborhood, you may be rewarded with a cool, unexpected find: a hip vest, some DIY crafting tools, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl. But what's perhaps coolest about this store is its social mission. All proceeds support Peak Thrift's parent...
Influential UK Garage DJ EZ Will Run Marathon Dance Party at Vinyl

By Luke Leavitt
Apr 15, 2016

DJ EZ hails from Tottenham, North London, where for the past twenty years he's been crucial in developing "UK garage," an uptempo, sample heavy form of house music. His Pure Garage compilations, first released in 2000, have sold over two million copies, helping the genre gain a wider audience. At...
Performance Art Week Kicks Off at Emmanuel Gallery Tonight

By Luke Leavitt
Apr 12, 2016

The seventh annual Performance Art Week, spearheaded by Rian Kerrane, a sculptor who also teaches at the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado-Denver, kicks off tonight at Emmanuel Gallery. For this year's PAW, Kerrane is pulling both artists and the public into situations characterized by the immediacy...
Artist Jaime Molina on Murals and Working With Kids at the Children's Museum

By Luke Leavitt
Mar 28, 2016

Denver muralist and visual artist Jaime Molina is nearing the completion of his residency at the Children's Museum; he's the first of several artists who will be hosted at the museum this year. You've seen Molina's murals — which he often makes in collaboration with Pedro Barrios and Joseph Martinez as...
Viviane Le Courtois Wants to Make You Think — But She Needs Your Hair First

By Luke Leavitt
Mar 25, 2016

Viviane Le Courtois wants strands of your hair — as long as they're six inches or longer. The artist and Westword MasterMind plans to braid those donations and weave them into a small structure she calls a Global Thinking Pod, which she will make as part of her creative residency at the...

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