Parker Yamasaki

2 weeks ago | dariamag.com | Parker Yamasaki

Taking Her TimeAnnalee Schorr likes to be in control. She’ll be the first to tell you. “How much do you know about Spark Gallery?” the eighty-five-year-old artist asks moments into our first meeting, taking the reins of the conversation. “That's where I am so involved, and we've got a lot of exciting stuff going on. So, I'd like to talk about that.” Schorr became a member of the alternative artist co-op in 1985 after burning out on traditional commercial galleries.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Parker Yamasaki

In 2015 a group of volunteer biologists, retired ecologists, ranchers, environmentalists and generally concerned citizens came together to contain a flowery, green-and-yellow plant called leafy spurge. They called themselves the Yampa River Leafy Spurge Project. Spurges are an invasive plant species that were introduced to the Yampa watershed just west of Hayden about 40 years ago.

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Parker Yamasaki

Story first appeared in:It was Prince who gave Mayra Alejandra the idea she could one day become the queen of Tejano music. Or, rather, it was a guy named Phillip, performing as the artist formerly known as Prince. A lifelong singer who’d lost her way with music, Alejandra decided in 2022 to make her way back to the stage. She was cast as a backup singer for the Paizley Park Band, a traveling Prince tribute act with weekly gigs all over Colorado. “That’s when it all started,” Alejandra said.

1 month ago | coloradosun.com | Parker Yamasaki |Michael Booth

Western Slope oil interests are challenging new Colorado greenhouse gas emission rules in court, piggybacking on an April 8 executive order by President Trump urging his Justice Department to fight state environmental rules that his administration thinks are an overreach. The lawsuit hoping to block rules cutting Colorado pipeline emissions was filed March 21 by the West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association.

1 month ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold |Parker Yamasaki

Hey there, Temperature readers, they say that hope springs eternal on baseball’s opening day. They, however, are obviously not Colorado Rockies fans. As of this morning, our very own Blake Street Bumblers are tied for the worst record in baseball, on pace in the early going to lose 130 games this season, more than eclipsing the other most futile seasons in the team’s history. Which were last year and the year before. Yes, in LoDo this April, hope springs infernal.