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Travis Larchuk

  • Microsoft's Clip Art has come to an end.
    U.S.
    Microsoft Says Goodbye To Clip Art
    Sam Sanders
    Microsoft announced that it is eliminating clip art libraries from its suite of Office productivity software, and replacing it with Bing Image search. But the iconic illustrations may live on.
  • Reggie Fils-Aime is president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America.
    U.S.
    Q&A: Nintendo President Says Don't Count Out Mario
    Laura Sydell
    The once-powerful name in gaming has been relegated to third-place status in recent years. Nintendo of America chief Reggie Fils-Aime says Mario and other franchises are key to the company's future.
  • Microsoft And Sony Kick Off E3 With Dueling Announcements
    Travis Larchuk
    Every year, gamers turn their eyes to Los Angeles for E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. It's the annual video game industry convention.
  • Disney Rolls Characters Together In New Video Game
    Travis Larchuk
    Disney is about to release the video game Disney: Infinity. Each game comes with a collectible toy figurine that activates parts of the game when placed on a special base. In the game, different Disney characters will interact with each other. Captain Jack Sparrow can play or fight with Mr. Incredible in the world of The Nightmare Before Christmas. To understand the new Disney game, you first need to look at another game that's been a blockbuster for Activision, Skylanders.
  • Jell-O Tries Out Edgy Social Media Campaign
    Travis Larchuk
    Jell-O launched an ad campaign last week called Fun My Life, which piggybacks off the profane Twitter hashtag #FML. Advertising consultants are divided over whether the campaign is brilliant or crosses the line of good taste.
  • Janet Whitley borrows a stranger's dog to run away from a 10-foot-high plastic boulder in Washington, D.C.'s "Alley of Doom."
    Re-Creating Indiana Jones' Boulder Run In D.C.'s 'Alley Of Doom'
    Travis Larchuk
    In an alley in Washington, D.C., strangers came together to simulate Indiana Jones' boulder run, using a very big inflatable boulder.
  • Fans leave all manner of mementos at Andy Warhol's grave site, near Pittsburgh. This spring, a local Warhol impersonator wrapped the grave stone in colorful paper for an entire month.
    In Warhol's Memory, Soup Cans And Coke Bottles
    Travis Larchuk
    While the cemetery that houses the artist's grave is conventional, the grave site itself is anything but. Fans and admirers regularly leave colorful mementos on his tombstone outside of Pittsburgh, and a local artist and Warhol historian even holds graveside birthday parties for the late pop art con.
  • Jim Fingal (left) is a fact-checker turned software engineer. John D'Agata teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa and is the author of <em>About a Mountain</em>.
    'Lifespan': What Are The Limits Of Literary License?
    Travis Larchuk
    When an intern accused author John D'Agata of embellishing the facts in an essay, the two began wrestling over the writer's responsibility to the truth, and even the meaning of truth itself. The Lifespan of a Fact is the real-life record of their debate (or is it?).