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Don’t judge Twitter’s video sharing app ‘Vine’ for its users’ porn addiction
Life | 4 months agoThe new video sharing app ‘Vine’ has got the Internet all in a ‘Twitter.’ Introduced this past Thursday, Twitter has added their newest exception to the 140-character rule by allowing users to share 6-second videos with their followers. Similar to the popular app SnapChat, Vine has already found itself dealing with the raunchy reality of XXX virtual sharing, and [...]
J.J. Abrams new Disney ‘Star Wars’ director for ‘Next Generation’
Life | 4 months agoI was witness to the Disney Renaissance– the years between the late 1980s and 2000 when Disney returned to making animated films based on well-known stories and saw major success. In the first 10 years of my life, I learned you could make your sisters laugh by brushing a fork through your tangled hair at [...]
Life Lessons of ‘Dear Abby’ Outlive Pauline Phillips’ Death
Life | 4 months agoHer column has been around for more than 50 years, yet it remains known for its “youthful perspective.” Pauline Phillips, pen name Abigail Van Buren, started the most “widely syndicated column in the world” at the age of 37. Offering her “uncommon common sense” to over 95 million readers a day, Phillip’s column “Dear Abby” [...]
Lyric Cinema close to fundraising goal
Life | 10 months agoThe Lyric Cinema Cafe in Old Town has nearly reached its $150,000 fundraising goal to purchase digital projectors it would need to stay in business. Its campaign has been run through Kickstarter, a website that allows individuals and organizations to “crowd source” financial donations by offering perks to its “backers.” Currently 2,020 people have donated more than [...]
Missy Franklin does it again, winning gold medal in 200m backstroke
| 10 months agoSPOILER ALERT. For those of you planning on watching NBC’s tape delay tonight, feel free to read another article. Everyone else may continue. Budding Olympic superstar and Coloradan Missy Franklin won the gold medal in the 200m backstroke. It was her third gold medal and fourth medal of the Olympics overall. She set a world [...]
NASA awards Colorado company space taxi grant
| 10 months agoSierra Nevada Space Systems received one of three NASA grants to develop a privatized space flight industry. The Ventura County Star reports that the grant will total $212 million for the “Dream Chaser Space System team.” The team is: part of NASA’s effort to return the United States to manned space flights. The grant will [...]
Colorado medical marijuana finding its way to the wrong hands, according to report
| 10 months agoA report from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area has found that some marijuana intended for medicinal use is finding its way into the illegal trade. The Denver Post reports that as many as 70 instances of “diversion” have occurred. Kirk Mitchell and Ryan Parker write: Colorado patients, caregivers and dispensaries all have diverted [...]
July the hottest ever in Colorado, and no one is surprised
| 10 months agoWe’re in an extreme drought, fires have wreaked havoc on the state and now this. July was officially the hottet ever recorded in the state of Colorado. According to Bob Berwyn at the Summit County Citizen’s Voice, the average temperature for Denver during the month of July was 78.9 degrees, besting the previous record of [...]
ESPN follows former CSU basketball coach Tim Miles, mentions Café Mexicali
| 10 months agoJason King at ESPN just published a lengthy (like, you-could-spend-thirty-minutes-reading-this type lengthy) piece following former CSU basketball coach Tim Miles for a day in Las Vegas, Nevada. Most of the article is about the hectic summer recruiting season, but there are touches of Fort Collins woven throughout, including: After a full weekend of basketball, Miles [...]