As demonstrated by a racially charged protest gone fatally wrong in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month, white supremacists have no shame. But if they did, they’d probably be humiliated by even the slightest association with Colorado’s own Joshua Witt, who claimed to have been stabbed because of his resemblance to a neo-Nazi, only to later admit that the wound was self-inflicted.
Brian Crecente, who recently took over as editorial director for Glixel, the ambitious video-game website of Rolling Stone magazine, following impressive runs at gaming-centric Kotaku and Polygon, is easily among the most accomplished alumni of the Rocky Mountain News, which cratered in February 2009 just prior to its 150th anniversary. Even though he left the Rocky a decade ago, when editors wanted to move him from the gaming beat into a more traditional role amid widespread staff departures, he gives the paper credit for being ahead of its time when it comes to covering his favorite subject. But today, he doesn’t see many dailies giving anything other than short shrift to video games in general, despite the industry racking up an estimated $91 billion worldwide in 2016.
Westword.com is on a scroll, with an articles page redesign that introduces several innovations, including uninterrupted scrolling.
Jury selection for the Taylor Swift-DJ David Mueller trial is continuing in Denver at this writing, with national and international media operations closely monitoring developments in a story that involves dueling accounts about alleged bottom-touching prior to a June 2013 Pepsi Center concert. But this activity seems positively sluggish in comparison to the explosion of activity on Twitter, where Swift supporters are rallying under the hashtag #StayStrongTaylor.
According to a new survey conducted by Junior Achievement USA (JA), a large gap still exists between the number of boys and girls interested in pursuing STEM-related careers.
Breitbart News, the online spawning ground of Steve Bannon, a powerful adviser for President Donald Trump, is an alt-right outlet pilloried by critics for what they see as racism, sexism and the sort of vile invective spewed by Milo Yiannopoulos, who resigned from his gig as editor of Breitbart Tech yesterday after video surfaced of him defending sexual relationships between adult men and thirteen-year-old boys. It’s also the target of a Twitter campaign intended to convince advertisers not to support the site. But while the University of Colorado Denver and Winter Park ski area are among several Colorado enterprises to have removed Breitbart from their media plans, representatives of both say they’re not trying to make a political statement.
Excited for Halloween, but nervous to run into any ominous clowns? Not to worry, a Jefferson County high school student named Rocco Marchitto has just developed an app that allows you to view where previous clown sightings have been in the world. Zooming in on the map at its website shows a total of four sighting reported so far in the Denver area, each with their time, specific details and a precise location.
What we Google says a lot about us — and about where we live. That’s the thesis (to use a particularly highfalutin term) at the heart of an Estately post headlined “How-To Questions Each State Googles More Frequently Than Any Other State.” The site used Google Autocomplete to compile hundreds of…
“Dayle, we are all big fans and would sure like to see you drop 20 lbs. or so.” This e-mail was sent anonymously to 7News morning anchor Dayle Cedars earlier this month — and she could have shrugged it off. After all, the Internet can be a cruel place, particularly…
Colorado is hardly exempt from the Pokémon Go craze — and plenty of local business operators are probably happy that the new app, which allows Pokémon hunters to search for prized mini-monsters such as Charizard and Squirtle in real-world locations with help from their phone’s GPS system, are bringing people to their doorsteps. Including…
When Examiner.com debuted just over eight years ago, it was ballyhooed as a bold effort to harness the power of citizen journalism with the financial support of the ultimate deep-pocketed investor, Denver-based billionaire Phil Anschutz. The site’s impending death should be much quieter. Michael Roth, a Los Angeles-based spokesman for Anschutz Entertainment…
Whisper is a social networking app where anonymous users post messages over an image, meme-style. And because the site is searchable, visitors can focus on locations (like, for instance, Colorado) and check out conversations that are frequently as spicy — picking up and hooking up are frequent topics — as they…
Lots of folks who visit this space complain about bad driving in Colorado. And given the number of people who have to navigate stop-and-go traffic on I-25 every day. that’s completely understandable. Fortunately, though, there are times when Colorado driving is a laughing matter. The Colorado Car Memes Facebook page specializes…
Josh, or JoshOG, as he’s known on Twitch, says people often pigeonhole him as the stereotypical streamer who sits around all day playing video games and eating. But the life of a successful full-time streamer is much more that, as shown in “Game On,” this week’s cover story, especially at…
On a Friday night, one of Clutch Gaming Arena’s busier nights, computers illuminate the faces of gamers in an epic quest for victory. They drag their monsters across mysterious lands or inch soldiers around the corner of an industrial complex so as not to be seen by the enemy. But…
In recent years, we’ve shared multiple reports about satirical marijuana hoaxes that plenty of people actually believed. Note the March 2015 story claiming that pot candy killed nine people in Colorado and twelve at Coachella, or the bogus October 2015 item about a Colorado McDonald’s with a pot-smoking section —…
Social media gets plenty of criticism these days — but this means of communication is facilitating heroic deeds. Like the recovery of Willie B’s iPhone. A longtime radio personality for KBPI, Willie lost his phone while in Tampa, Florida. But thanks to Facebook and a Good Samaritan of a fan,…
You may have thought Google Maps had already captured interactive graphics depicting every square inch of Colorado and the rest of these United States. But there are a lot of new things to see in a just-released special collection of what Google Maps calls “iconic and inspiring areas” in our…
There are plenty of great things about living in Denver. But one of the few negatives involves cellphone service — which most of us think is terrible. Yes, we know: Service is such a challenge in these parts is due in part to our proximity to the mountains — among…
Earlier this morning, we marked 303 Day — March 3 — with a post naming the fifty reasons why Colorado is the best state. And plenty of folks on Twitter have been getting into the spirit, too. At this writing, #303Day is the top trending hashtag in Denver, with many of…
Go Denver, a new transportation app, went live yesterday — right about the time Mayor Michael Hancock unveiled it at Union Station. Go Denver melds multiple modes of transportation into one app that’s designed to help commuters find the fastest, cheapest and greenest routes to their destinations. It’s basically Google…
Do you hate today’s Denver snowstorm? Or love it? Twitter Nation seems pretty evenly divided. For everyone complaining about bad roads and related inconveniences, there’s somebody celebrating a snow day (most schools in the metro area are closed) or the beauty of the scene. To capture the contradiction, we’ve juxtaposed…
