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The Link Between Cops’ F-Bombs and Police Brutality

A prominent Denver civil-rights law firm has announced that it is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of Greg Heard, a homeless man who says he was trying to surrender to a Denver police officer when he was tased in an episode caught on a body-camera video . A former SWAT team leader believes Heard's tasing represented "a textbook use of force," but Michael Berry, a retired police officer who currently trains law enforcers, strongly disagrees. He breaks down the clip, on view below, and notes that the officer's use of unprovoked profanity before pulling his taser's trigger helps explain how incidents like this one can result in excessive force against a suspect and injury or worse to police.
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Last-Minute Partisan Squabbling Blocks Oil Pipeline Safety Legislation

In the final days of the legislative session, state Democrats and Republicans blocked each others’ attempts to earn political kudos with oil pipeline safety legislation — though the two plans differed substantially in their aims. On Monday night, two days before the legislative session ended, House Republicans filibustered a bill...
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Trey Edward Shults’s It Comes at Night Is a Horror Triumph

A red door is, biblically speaking, a sign of protection, an echo of the blood rubbed on posts and lintels during Passover to keep God from smiting you and your home. But like most things that the Bible insists are positive, the red door also comes with an undercurrent of...
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Larkburger Introduces Its First Limited-Time Burger: Bacon Chimichurri

Until now, Larkburger has been content with a slow move toward burger domination in Colorado. The chain launched in Edwards in 2006 as a casual spin-off of founder Thomas Salamunovich's fine-dining restaurant, Larkspur; today there are twelve Larkburger locations. But recent changes foreshadow increased growth for the company, including last fall's...
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Brit Hoagland on Freeing FoCo’s Nipples, Why City’s Still Fighting to Hide Them

It's just over a month before the 2017 edition of Denver Go Topless Day, which is scheduled for August 26. But in the run-up to that event, Fort Collins continues to fight a temporary restraining order issued earlier this year against the enforcement of a public-indecency ordinance that includes the words "the breast or breasts of a female," despite a statement from the ruling judge that he would likely rule against the community on constitutional grounds. This stance exasperates co-plaintiff Brit Hoagland, who continues to follow the case even after leaving FoCo, as well as regular criticism by residents and officials opposed to topless equality.
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Patients Suffering From PTSD Will Finally Be Eligible for MMJ in Colorado

One of the longest-running cannabis controversies in Colorado is about to come to a close. Last month, state lawmakers approved a measure that will create a "statutory right" for patients to use medical marijuana for PTSD. When the bill goes into law, it will mark the first time any condition has been added to those eligible for MMJ since 2001, when the initial list was created a year after Colorado voters approved Amendment 20. Amendment 20 gave patients and caregivers alike the right to possess, cultivate and use medicinal marijuana.
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Scott Pack Indicted in Colorado Pot Biz’s Largest Fraud Case Ever, Attorney Says

Scott Pack has been indicted by an Arapahoe County grand jury for what attorney Matthew Buck has called "the largest fraud case in the history of Colorado's marijuana industry." Buck, who filed a lawsuit in the matter earlier this year, says the grand jury's findings tie Pack to what prosecutors describe as a massive operation that grew marijuana for distribution outside Colorado and previously led to the indictment of sixteen people, including Pack associate Rudy Saenz. Among those reportedly indicted along with Pack is Renee Rayton, a former officer for the state's Marijuana Enforcement Division.
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Top Ten Reasons Why Coloradans Remove Tattoos — and How to Do It

Wednesday, August 2, will mark the grand opening of youbaby Skin Spa, a new business in Lafayette whose specialties include tattoo removal. In advance of the big event, co-owners and sisters Susan Melching and Nina Smith spoke with us about the ten most common reasons people in Colorado (and plenty of other places, in all likelihood) decide to have their tattoos removed.
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Cops: Milo Yiannopoulos Neo-Nazi E-Mail Threat Was an Inside Job

Police at the University of Colorado Boulder continue to look into reports about an e-mail sent to ticket holders for a Wednesday night address by alt-right shit-stirrer Milo Yiannopoulos threatening that "the identifies of attendees will be released to the public on a list of known Neo-Nazi sympathizers." But while the inquiry is ongoing, investigators have already concluded that the e-mail wasn't sent out as a result of an online hack. Rather, they believe that the culprit was one of the attendees.
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Would a World-Class Motor Speedway in Aurora Leave the Plains in the Dust?

This year would have marked the fourth time in nearly twenty years that Aurora voters would have decided whether to allow the city to spend money on a motor speedway. In 1999, voters banned the city government from doing so; in the ensuing years, city officials have had one tool — a ballot initiative — to remove that ban from the city’s charter.
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100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Jessie de la Cruz

Jessie de la Cruz is a schooled archivist, and she plies that rarest of trades professionally at the Clyfford Still Museum, where she keeps the institution’s vast archives, library and digital collection shipshape.