Relationships

DateCamp teaches you how to date -- and kiss and dress -- the Denver way

By Bree Davies Fri., Apr. 26 2013 at 8:58 AM
Categories: Relationships, The Internetz

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A scene from a DateCamp online video tutorial on touching.
The Denver-based DateCamp.tv is not a dating website in the traditional sense. Rather, it's a hub for learning the ins and outs of dating itself. DateCamp is designed as a three-pronged entity: a dating resource center, a place offering interactive retreats and camps and, once it gets going, the owners plan to create a full-fledged reality TV series about, well, dating.

"We like to say that we're not an online dating site -- our goal is not to hook up people," explains Doug Hanes, DateCamp's executive producer.

See also:
- Non-traditional dating site Grouper launches in Denver today
- Five jaded tips for online dating -- don't get Te'od!
- Online dating for straight people: We're all just chasing the popcorn


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Non-traditional dating site Grouper launches in Denver today

By Bree Davies Thu., Mar. 14 2013 at 11:37 AM
Categories: Relationships, The Internetz

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Grouper, which launches in Denver today, is the latest social networking site that aims to connect people with similar interests in a possibly romantic way. But Grouper founder and CEO Michael Waxman insists it's not a traditional dating site; this "social club" tries to keep the Internet part of the scenario to a minimum, by eliminating tedious questionaires and focusing on bringing together groups of friends for a night out known as a "Grouper."

Waxman spoke with Westword about the site's launch in the Denver market, and why having your friends along for a first date can make all the difference when getting to know a potential new partner.

See also:
- Date explores the world of online match-ups
- Five jaded tips for online dating -- don't get Te'od!
- Online dating for straight people: We're all just chasing the popcorn


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Five jaded tips for online dating -- don't get Te'od!

By Jenn Wohletz Tue., Feb. 5 2013 at 7:55 AM
Categories: Lists, The Internetz

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The entire world is embarrassed for Manti Te'o right now. The Notre Dame linebacker thought he had a girlfriend, then thought she died of leukemia, and anyone who heard his sad story really bad for Te'o -- until word got out that his beloved girlfriend was actually an emotionally disturbed 22-year-old man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo who boosted a woman's pictures and created "Lennay Kekua," a fictional online person who met Te'o on Facebook, virtually dated him off and on, then staged Lennay's death to get out of this elaborate hoax. Now the entire world feels sorry for Te'o, but for a different reason.

Manti Te'o isn't the first person who's been hoodwinked in the course of an online relationship and he won't be the last. There are lessons to be learned here about being safe and sane with Internet dating -- and also how not to be a dumbass. Here are five jaded pieces of advice for online dating. Don't get Te'od!

See also:
- Online dating for straight people: We're all just chasing the popcorn
- Online dating: Your friends' comments on your love life can actually help your profile
- Online dating: What your intentionally candid profile photo says about you

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Photos

#WebAwards: Follow Allen Klosowski, the owner of Denver's Best Instagram Account

By Show and Tell Tue., Nov. 20 2012 at 7:59 AM
Categories: Photography, Photos, The Internetz

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All photos by Allen Klosowksi.
When you open your Instagram feed, do you see hundreds of brunch photos and duck faces? If so, you're doing it wrong. Every year, Westword adapts its Denver Web Awards to incorporate rising digital trends, and our most exciting addition this year was the category of Best Instagram Account -- which Klosowski (TheBigKlosowski) won for his striking (and expertly filtered) scenes from Denver and a variety of trips across the country. Allen Klosowski may have fancy credentials as a professional photographer and a social-media expert at the Denver Post, but street cred oozes from his Instagram account.

If you enjoy otherworldly photos, be sure to follow him, and continue reading for more of our favorite photos from his award-winning acount.

See also:
- Slide show: Denver's Best Instagram Account
- Slide show: Denver Web Awards 2012
- Meet the 2012 Denver #WebAwards winners
- Meet the 2012 Denver #WebAwards finalists
- Twenty best Instagram photos from the 2012 Denver #WebAwards


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Twenty best Instagram photos from the 2012 Denver #WebAwards

By Show and Tell Fri., Nov. 16 2012 at 7:59 AM
Categories: The Internetz

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Every year, Westword honors the best and brightest minds in the city's digital culture with the Denver Web Awards -- and every year, we add categories to those awards as the digital landscape changes. This year, our biggest new addition had to be Best Instagram Account, for which the competition was both tough and stunning. And true to form, our readers took to Instagram at the ceremony itself, shooting and uploading all angles of the awards and their setting, RedLine gallery, throughout the night using the hashtag #webawards. Keep reading for our favorite shots from last night's party.

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- Denver's Best Instagram Account 2012
- Meet your 2012 Denver #WebAwards winners
- Meet the 2012 Denver #WebAwards finalists
- 2011 Denver #WebAwards winners announced!
- Westword #WebAwards winners 2010
- Fifteen best tweets about the 2012 Denver #WebAwards

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Meet your 2012 Denver #WebAwards arts winners

By Show and Tell Fri., Nov. 16 2012 at 6:00 AM
Categories: The Internetz

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Christopher Morgan
Slide show: Web Awards 2012
We came. We saw. We tweeted. Last night, Westword hosted the third annual Denver Web Awards, our celebration of Denver's greatest digital minds. In September, we put out a call for you, dear readers, to nominate your favorite online projects, and a team at Westword spent more than a month whittling your suggestions down to our final entries across categories featuring news, arts, food and music. Continue reading to see the winners of the arts categories in this year's Denver Web Awards.

See also:
- Denver's Best Instagram Account 2012
- Slide show: Web Awards 2012
- Meet your 2012 Denver #WebAwards winners
- Twenty best Instagram photos from the 2012 Denver #WebAwards
- Meet the 2012 Denver #WebAwards finalists
- Fifteen best tweets about the 2012 Denver #WebAwards

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Media

Show and Tell has a new commenting platform

By Show and Tell Thu., Jul. 19 2012 at 5:49 PM
Categories: Media, The Internetz

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Today Show and Tell (and all the other Westword blogs) rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice and opinion in our comment sections will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Lifefyre ("live fire"). Read all about it below.

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Photos: Five memorable Missed Connections from PrideFest weekend on Denver Craigslist

By Melody Parker Wed., Jun. 20 2012 at 11:21 AM
Categories: Lists, The Internetz

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Big photos below.
The joyous weekend of PrideFest was not without its misfortunes, in the form of chance interactions and longing gazes that left one party wanting more, but not knowing where to find it. Enter Craigslist Missed Connections, questionably the only matchmaking tool worse than The Bachelor/Bachelorette TV series, but nonetheless entertaining. Read on for five of the most amusing, though sometimes puzzling, missed connections from Denver PrideFest 2012.

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Visit the Denver Zoo, as seen by Instagram users

By Melody Parker Tue., Jun. 12 2012 at 3:01 PM
Categories: Family, Media, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Popular Culture, The Internetz

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Instagram user erinbeatty16

Instagram is the latest, and obviously the hippest, photo-sharing app; it allows anyone with a smartphone to play amateur photographer, transforming regular old snapshots into filtered, fogged and color-tinted works of art at the touch of a finger.

Search "Denver" on Statigram, one of the app's web-based viewing platforms, and sift through a variety of local tags like denverartmuseum, denvernuggets and denverairport. This week, we're taking a walk on the wild side and exploring the Denver Zoo through the lens of Instagram users. Page down if you can't get enough of cute animals and even cuter kids.


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Art

Visit the Denver Art Museum through the eyes of Instagram users

By Nick Lucchesi Wed., Jun. 6 2012 at 1:09 PM
Categories: Art, Media, Museums, Photography, Photos, Popular Culture, The Internetz

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Instagram user Greg Daniels
If you're reading this, someone you know -- and probably you, too -- uses Instagram, the smartphone photo app that has approximately 1 gazillion users, was sold last month to Facebook for $1 billion and, most important, is the latest vehicle for everyone to take photos of themselves in the bathroom. With a vintage '70s filter.

When you search "Denver" on Statigram, the app's web-based viewer, a variety of tags come up -- denverbroncos, denverzoo, denverairport -- but this week, we're going to visit the Denver Art Museum through the artistic filters of Instagram users.

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