Yellow Scene Magazine

Best of the West 2025

February 19, 2025 1 0 Associate Editor

Restaurants Overall EC Winner: 24 Carrot A perennial winner in this category, customers crave the fresh and local cuisine crafted by the chefs at 24 Carrot. As the overall restaurant winner, folks may think this is just a…

Shopping

How to Decorporatize Your Groceries

February 16, 2025 4 0 redtornado

Make Grocery Shopping Local Again! Ten corporate conglomerates control the food we buy, and six dominate the media we consume. As we watch the corporate coup seize the United States government before our eyes, it can feel like there’s nothing…

Local Governing

Erie’s Survey Gamble: Community Input at a High Cost

June 19, 2025 Like 0 Destiny Hale

Erie has been conducting annual surveys for years to collect data on residents’ perspectives. However, this year’s survey, headlined by the Mayor, Andrew Moore, includes a number of changes that have made it both more expensive and more controversial. One major…

Magazine

Spotlight on Spotlights: 25 Years of Yellow Scene Artist Interviews

June 19, 2025 Like 0 Julie River

Since the days when Yellow Scene Magazine (YS) was printed on actual yellow paper, we’ve tried to give you a little bit of insight into the music community. Sometimes we found an interesting story about an artist in your backyard…

National Issues

No Kings Day: Thousands Rally in Denver, Boulder, Longmont, and Erie

June 18, 2025 Like 0 redtornado

Erie Erie used to have 500 houses, 1,200 people, and dirt roads—not in 1890 but as recently as 1990. However, like so many Colorado Front Range towns, it’s seen rapid, relentless growth since then. Today, it’s home to 40,000 people…

Online News

Will Colorado Universities Step Up for Faculty and Students of Color?

June 18, 2025 1 0 Bella Farris

Racial tensions in the University of Colorado system are under public scrutiny once again, and this time with one of its own regents at the center. In March 2025, CU Regent Wanda James, the first Black woman elected to the…

Letter to the Editor

Editor’s Note | May 2025

June 17, 2025 Like 0 Destiny Hale

Several years ago, I reached out to Yellow Scene Magazine with a gut feeling that I wanted to try my hand at journalism. I didn’t have a master plan, just a hunger to write, to ask questions, and to feel…

Nelson's Corner

Nelson’s Corner | May 2025

June 17, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

“Hitler did some good things.” – Donald J. Trump It takes a certain kind of stupidity to favor Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf over Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. But that’s the Trump administration for you. Maya…

Local Governing

State Land Board Names New Director and Rules on Key Land Decisions

June 16, 2025 Like 0 Natalie Kerr

Colorado State Land Board appoints new director The Colorado State Land Board unanimously confirmed Nicole Rosmarino as its new director during its monthly Board Meeting on June 12. Rosmarino’s appointment finalizes a four month search process that included a national…

Online News

Day of Peaceful Protests in Colorado Ends with 18 Arrests

June 12, 2025 Like 0 Ray Manzari

In response to growing national uproar over the Trump administration’s increased deportations, Denver joined other cities such as New York and Los Angeles in localized protests calling for the release of those who have been detained by ICE. The emergency…

Local

Trigger Happy: Kilyn Lewis’ Family Demands Accountability for APD’s Legacy of Lethal Force

June 11, 2025 Like 0 Ray Manzari

“When I saw his eyes, I knew right then, he was already gone.” Kilyn Lewis’s mother, LaRonda Jones, remembers seeing her son in the hospital for the first time after being shot by Aurora Police Officer Michael Dieck. In May…

Local Governing

Jurinsky vs. Fard: Fact-Checking Their Fiery Debate on Crime, Youth, and Policing

June 10, 2025 Like 0 Madison Duncan

Aurora Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky and Brother Jeff Fard recently met on the ‘Free Think Zone’ on May 6. The conversation was intended to encourage dialogue about differing political ideologies and personal views. Fard, a longtime Denver activist, advocates for respectful…