Parker Yamasaki

4 days 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 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | montrosepress.com | Parker Yamasaki

The Trump administration has terminated millions of dollars in grant money for humanities organizations across the U.S., including groups that help thousands of Coloradans access cultural programming. Late last Wednesday night, Colorado Humanities, the state humanities council, received an email from the acting director of the National Endowment for the Humanities announcing that grant money that was awarded but not yet collected was immediately canceled.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Parker Yamasaki

The Trump administration has terminated millions of dollars in grant money for humanities organizations across the U.S., including groups that help thousands of Coloradans access cultural programming. Late Wednesday night, Colorado Humanities, the state humanities council, received an email from the acting director of the National Endowment for the Humanities announcing that grant money that was awarded but not yet collected was immediately canceled.