Cold Crush will reopen at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, October 20. As Westword reported, the RiNo music venue and restaurant was shut down last week, labeled a public nuisance for the unlawful discharge of a firearm. The incident in question was a shooting on the morning of Monday, October 10, that injured one person and killed local rapper Tyrone "Boss Goodie" Adair Jr.

Following the citation, Westword spoke to Cold Crush co-owner Brian Mathenge, who expressed disappointment over the way the situation following the shooting was handled by the police, city and neighborhood leaders. "The police are making it seem like I'm a bad guy who lets gangbangers come to his club; it's so far-fetched that it bothers me," Mathenge said. "I'm not mad at those cops. I'm mad at the institution that's allowed this."

This week, however, Mathenge was able to sit down with Councilman Albus Brooks, RiNo Arts District co-chair Andrew Feinstein, Cold Crush attorney Bob Dill, Tyrone Adair's mother and others, and discussed further security at Cold Crush. "We sat, and with the city manager, figured out what was wrong, what Cold Crush was, what the violence meant," Mathenge says. "I explained to them what Cold Crush was supposed to be, which is a place for freedom of expression, a place for young artists to get their work seen, a place for community."