We stepped onto the rooftop of the Sheraton Downtown recently to see the New Year’s Eve fireworks, all lined up in careful rows, excitedly awaiting their chance to blow. The roof was unforgivingly slick, and clear tarps were put down to protect the massive amount of pyro-technic engineering marvels that…
Monday, December 21, is media day at the North American Aerospace Defense Command headquarters on Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Giddy journalists from around the state will crowd into the media operations center, hungry for photo ops, B-roll and briefings concerning one of NORAD’s most vital and…
Good news: The highways and streets in the Denver area appear to be in much better shape this morning than they were at this time yesterday, when the commute was like either a tobbagan ride or a still photo, depending on where you were. And for that, we likely have…
Paige Yore’s story says plenty about the way we live today — but its ultimate meaning has yet to be told. On Friday, Yore posted a Facebook message about an experience at a Pueblo Walmart. She says that after an angry customer berated a young employee, the staffer confessed to…
It’s been nearly a week since Halloween. But items continue to pop up on Denver Craigslist Missed Connections from people desperate to get back in touch with costumed someones they encountered during their revels. Quite a few of the posts are typically lusty hook-up invites. But several of them are flat-out…
Back in May, we shared a collection of twelve amazing vintage ads and more from The Denver Eye, a 2015 Best of Denver award winner whose Tom Lundin regularly celebrates the Mile High City’s glorious past through photos, words and fascinating artifacts. Since then, Lundin has posted one amazing shot after another — including…
Earlier this week, we argued that Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson had won the Miss America pageant by the way she lost it — by delivering a monologue about nursing (she’s a registered nurse) rather than offering a typically cliched routine during the talent portion of the competition, and by saying…
The Colorado Department of Transportation is abandoning a social media campaign to encourage pedestrian safety after some people found it offensive. “Hank’s How to Get Hit by a Car” series launched last month on Facebook and YouTube. It consists of four video clips featuring a sleazy old-school pitchman selling VHS…
Twitter brings people together — and so did a certain bear whose run through Arvada yesterday briefly captivated all of Colorado. By the time the ursine star was captured and taken away, humorous tweets about the situation, and the live coverage of it by multiple Denver TV stations, had been…
The hack of Ashley Madison, a website that promotes extramarital hookups, took place in July. But in recent days, the individuals behind it dumped personal and financial data on millions of users, including as many as 70,000 people in the Denver metro area, as estimated by the company earlier this…
As we’ve reported, the still-unknown individuals who hacked Ashley Madison, a website that promotes extramarital hookups, dumped personal and financial data on an estimated 3.2 million users. According to an Ashley Madison estimate shared with us earlier this year, that total could include more than 70,000 people in the metro…
Talk-show personality Glenn Beck isn’t known as one of Colorado’s biggest cheerleaders. Granted, he did say, back in 2010, that he might move to the state if Tom Tancredo was elected governor — but that didn’t come to pass. Now, however, he’s named Denver was of the top fifteen “cities to…
The unknown person or persons who hacked AshleyMadison.com have threatened to release confidential information about users of the website, whose slogan reads, “Life is Short. Have an Affair.” Among those who may need to be concerned about this eventuality are a lot of Denver-area residents. A whole lot of Denver residents. A message put…
Westword has an opening for a part-time social media editor. This 20-hour/week position combines journalism with social-media skills to increase Westword’s audience and serve as its online public face. The social media editor manages Westword’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others, with the expectation of continued engagement and growth. The social media…
Since last October, we’ve been keeping you up to date on the progress of an amazing project being assembled by Chris Harrison and the folks at Videoblend: one-hundred Instagram videos that reveal 100 reasons why Colorado is awesome, issued under the AWSMColorado umbrella. Our first collection assembled reasons 100-88, while our second,…
In recent days, you may have seen examples of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s new seat-belt safety billboard campaign. Last week, billboards went up in locations such as I-70 and Wadsworth, Leetsdale and Holly and Sixth Avenue east of I-25 with phrases like “Life or Death,” “Windshield Ejection” and “Brain…
Last week, we told you that the ACLU of Colorado had agreed to defend Ryan and Benjamin Brown. The brothers were pulled over by Colorado Springs police earlier this year and treated roughly even though the reason for the stop was ostensibly a cracked windshield. Ryan was eventually charged with…
One of the few immutable rules of technology today is that it never stops evolving. From smartwatches to self-driving cars, every year brings a new crop of improved gadgets designed to make our lives easier and better. So why haven’t our sex toys kept pace? That’s a question that Colorado…
No denying it: This photo of Sydney Spies is too sexy for a high school yearbook — the type of publication whose rejection of a less revealing shot on the grounds that it was too sexy catapulted her to brief national fame just over three years ago. Now, Sydney and…
When we’ve written about GoFundMe pages in recent months, we’ve usually done so in connection with tragedy. Take Leah Montgomery, whose family launched a GoFundMe page to help pay for medical expenses after she was struck by a car and lost her unborn baby. And then there’s the case of…
The recently repaired Facebook outage shouldn’t have been that big a deal in Colorado, given that it mainly took place overnight. Nonetheless, local press figures took to Twitter anyhow to express their shock/prompt some laughs, as did social-media addicts on the other side of the planet, who had it far…
A Newsweek article asks twelve writers a provocative question: What’s the worst thing you wrote in 2014? The answer provided by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: “my half of a series of tweets with some angry libertarian from Colorado about the Eric Garner case.” We’ve got the entire exchange below, and…
