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Should Denver Police Be Allowed to Beat Suspects Who Swallow Drug Packets?

In its newly released 2015 Annual Report, on view below, the Denver Office of the Independent Monitor, which oversees law-enforcement activity in the area, focuses on two specific areas. The first involves unauthorized use of electronic databases, including the National Crime Information Center and the Colorado Crime Information Center, for...
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Englewood Delays Jumping Into the Marijuana Club Limelight

Englewood's City Council postponed its decision on marijuana consumption clubs Monday night as it gathers more information and waits for the results of tonight's local election, in which four new council seats will be assigned. In October, the Englewood Liquor and Medical Marijuana Licensing Authority presented a drafted ordinance that...
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Beer Calendar: Two Brewery Openings, Tap Takeovers and Peanuts Three Ways

March is stats month for the Boulder-based Brewers Association, the not-for-profit trade group representing thousands of craft breweries nationwide. So far, the organization has released several interesting numbers (a more comprehensive look will arrive soon).  For starters, the number of operating breweries in the United States grew 15 percent in...
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Pot Can Be Insured Under Commercial Property Policies, Court Rules

Can an insurance company refuse to pay for damage to marijuana at a legal pot shop because cannabis remains illegal at the federal level? That was among the many questions asked in a lawsuit filed by Green Earth Wellness Center, a Colorado Springs medical marijuana business, against its insurer, Atain...
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Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus on Meeting David Bowie

Kevin Haskins was still his teens in 1978 when he became a founding member of post-punk band Bauhaus. Along with his brother and bassist David, guitarist Daniel Ash and singer Peter Murphy, Bauhaus brought together ideas from punk, glam rock and the avant-garde and created a brooding yet dynamic and...
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Megadeth Did It Mustaine’s Way at the Fillmore

By the time Megadeth got to the end of a super-tight and extremely well-received set, the band took a bow to the sound of Sid Vicious’ cover of Sinatra’s “My Way.” Hearing snotty Sid wail, “Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention” seemed on-the-nose appropriate. This is, after all,...
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Pliny the Younger: Where to Get the Cult Beer in Colorado in 2016

Pliny the Younger, which has become one of the most sought-after beers in the world, makes its annual return to Colorado this month when California's Russian River Brewing trucks a precious few kegs of the cult beer over the Continental Divide. Russian River has been sending the extremely-limited, draft-only triple...
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100 Favorite Dishes: Schweinshaxe at Rhein Haus

No. 95: Schweinshaxe at Rhein Haus A LoDo restaurant specializing in beers by the liter and indoor bocce ball hardly seems like the kind of place to run into proper, traditional German fare. Nighttime crowds in the club-heavy zone are typically more interested in two-for-one drinks and loud music than...
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Shaun Fleming’s Diane Coffee Played Hot and Fresh at Lost Lake Lounge

Diane Coffee is the creation of Shaun Fleming, the drummer of Foxygen, and the band brews an appealing blend of American roots music, blending soul, rock and roll, gospel, R&B and the blues. Fleming combines this survey sound with a strong stage presence reminiscent of Motown and David Bowie, perfecting...
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Cocktail of the Week: Punk Rock and Cranberries Meet at the Occidental

Sonic Reducer at the Occidental Cranberries always remind barman Jason Patz of his great-aunt Muriel. When Patz wrote the drink menu for the Occidental, the more casual sibling of Williams & Graham next door, a cranberry liqueur from Denver's own Leopold Bros. Distillery reminded him of his childhood Thanksgivings; apparently...
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Seven Things That Make Thornton Residents Very, Very Mad

In previous installments of this series, we've focused on specific neighborhoods in Denver proper. This time, we're looking at what raises the ire of residents of one of Denver's suburb-cities to the north, Thornton. For some readers, this 'burb is home; for others, it's the part of town where they...
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Four Amazing Feats of Broncos Pride for Orange Friday

Today is officially Orange Friday, as proclaimed by Mayor Michael B. Hancock, and buildings all over the city will get lit up in orange and blue to celebrate the home team. But the celebrations have spilled far beyond Denver, all the way to a sculpture hoax in Asia. Keep reading for...
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Denver Musicians Are Still Feeling the Bern

Back at the beginning of March, we interviewed notoriously politically active punk band Anti-Flag prior to its show at the Gothic Theatre, and frontman Justin Sane was more than happy to discuss the merits of his favorite presidential candidate. “Sanders is a person who has a track record of fighting...
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Ohio Rejects Pot Initiative as Colorado, Denver Fatten Up on Tax Revenues

While the results of the Jefferson County School Board recall were the biggest election story locally, there were plenty of other important measures that went before Colorado voters, including Proposition BB, which was touted as allowing the state to spend excess tax money generated by marijuana sales beyond state estimates — a requirement...
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CVA Votes for Political Satire and Caricatures, Both Old and New

When I think of the Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University’s off-campus art center, I think of contemporary art because that’s what’s typically shown there. So I was surprised to find the place decked out, in part, in James Gillray’s hand-colored etchings from the late 18th and early 19th...
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How the Spring Storm Forced Me to Piss Into a Cup

Yesterday's spring storm closed Denver International Airport for only the second time ever (DIA is open again, but delays remain) and turned some of the highways in and around the metro area into parking lots for hours at a time. I know about the latter from personal experience. I was...