2025 Summer Calender

Month In Review | May-June 2025

[ Local ] After months of controversy, the Draco Well Pad proposal from Civitas Resources, Inc., a 26-well project in Weld County, is approved by the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) in a 4-1 vote. Amid reduced funding, TGTHR, a Boulder-based non-profit focused on youth homelessness, is forced to shut down its emergency shelter known as The Source, which was the...

Nelson’s Corner | May 2025

“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 Angelou is banned from the Naval Academy library, but two copies of Mein Kampf remain. In response to a New York Times report on this library malpractice a...

Editor’s Note | May 2025

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 connected to the world around me in a more meaningful way. They liked my writing sample enough to give me a shot. A few weeks later, I was deep in the neck of research and interviews for my...

Spotlight on Spotlights: 25 Years of Yellow Scene Artist Interviews

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 that you really ought to be listening to. But, on more than a few occasions, we managed to pull an interview with a fairly big-name artist for a small indie magazine...

Guilt by Association

In a perfect world, sports would allow people to escape the moral and ethical decision-making that plagues life today. Sports are supposed to be a place for people to relax and enjoy competition, free from the chaos of their daily lives. While that ideal is not always achieved in any sport, soccer (or football as it’s called in much of the world) has seemingly been threatened the most by...

2025 Summer Calender

Boulder Theater (Boulder, CO) An Evening with Adam Met (of AJR) | June 6 Unite to Fight IX – Undercard | June 7 Unite to Fight IX – Main Card | June 7 Tycho | June 17 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with Guerrilla Fanfare | June 18 A.J. Croce Presents CROCE PLAYS CROCE | June 19 The English Beat | June 20 Drive-By Truckers/Deer Tick with Thelma and the Sleaze | June 21 BoDeans |...

Appealing East Boulder County Summer Venues

Many — well, at least some — people of Longmont, Lafayette, Firestone, Erie, and other smaller towns in the North Central Colorado Urban Area know their identity is more significant than the shadow of Denver and Boulder. Any city or town has a valuable character. The crucial essence of community is the need for local community engagement to build connective bridges. Appreciating local culture...

The Past, Present, and Future of Colorado’s Music Festivals

This June, as folk fans and bluegrass pickers gather for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, there’s something unmistakable in the sound. It’s not just the music, it’s the feeling of legacy — a rhythm passed down like heirlooms, something more lived-in than performed. But while some festivals in Colorado are holding fast to their identities, others have slipped quietly off the calendar. As...

25 Summer Film Festivals in Colorado and Beyond

Attending a film festival is really fun for me as a big film nerd. Sure, the big ones are a blast because you could be watching next year’s biggest films before any of your friends, but sometimes a small festival can be fun too — You can see films that you might otherwise never have  a chance to see. And, obviously, Colorado is becoming a hotbed for film festivals, as evidenced by the recent...

When the Stars Align

There is a paradox in the quest to find the best stargazing towns in Colorado: in the age of artificial light even a small town’s electric glow can blot out the brilliance of the night sky. Light pollution obliterates the view of the Milky Way from eighty percent of American backyards and porches. To find the darkest skies available, we must leave town and get into the wide-open spaces. My...

Deer Tick and Colorado Share a Mutual Love for Each Other | Spotlight

As a transplant to Colorado who grew up in Rhode Island, I’ve always been fascinated by the Centennial State’s love of Rhode Island’s greatest export of the past few decades, indie rock band Deer Tick. Shortly after moving to Colorado, a new friend of mine wanted to put together a group trip to catch this band she was really into called Deer Tick, and at the time, I knew the band name was...

25 Concerts We’re Most Excited About This Summer

I’ve always loved a good concert in the summer, especially a good outdoor show. Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends and I always attended the local radio station’s free concerts in the park. Sometimes it was a big name band, sometimes it was a real nobody, but it was always free so we would go just for the sake of seeing a concert. Now that I’m an adult, I can be a little more...

Bruuuunch, Please!

Ah, brunch. The glorious time of day when we throw out all the rules and dive headfirst into eggs, pancakes, and maybe — even better — cocktails before noon. With so many tempting brunch spots close by, making a decision could call for a little help from a Magic 8 Ball. The Buff Restaurant: Where pancakes flirt and $1 mimosas flow Boulder When Boulder locals talk brunch, one name...

Editor’s Picks | May 2025

When I moved to Colorado a long time ago from the East Coast, the biggest disappointment for me was that, in a landlocked state, there aren’t as many beach options. But that doesn’t mean that your local area doesn’t have plenty of opportunities for you to don that cute bathing suit you picked up over the winter and swore you would find an opportunity to wear this summer. So, for this...

Deer Tick and Colorado Share a Mutual Love for Each Other | Spotlight

As a transplant to Colorado who grew up in Rhode Island, I’ve always been fascinated by the Centennial State’s love of Rhode Island’s greatest export of the past few decades, indie rock band Deer Tick. Shortly after moving to Colorado, a new friend of mine wanted to put together a group trip to catch this band she was really into called Deer Tick, and at the time, I knew the band name was...