Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Post Entertainment: James Jespersen, co-inventor of closed captioning, dies at 77

Gossip - Bill Husted

Parker: Post-It fest a bright idea
The day the lights went out last week at Allonhill's Denver offices sparked a mega-wattage of ingenuity from the suddenly idle staff.  


Moms - Parenting

How to Make a Winter Wonderland Playhouse Out of Newspaper
Recently, we made our first geodesic dome playhouse out of newspaper, and we loved it so much, I decided to make a “winter wonderland” playhouse for my little one! This is a fun and frugal craft project that is great for toddlers and pre-schoolers. You will definitely want to create one of your own! You will  


Today's Movies

New on DVD, 1/24/2012
oseph Gordon-Levitt strikes the right note of fear even as he puts on a brave face as an earnest young man who learns he has cancer. Seth Rogen is his boneheaded, ultimately decent-hearted best friend.  


Reverb

Comedy Q&A: The Grawlix celebrates a year of shows, new venue, glorious facial hair and tats
Denver-based comedy troupe the Grawlix is marking a year of shows with a new venue and the same smart, fearless jokes we've come to know from Ben Roy, Andrew Orvedahl and Adam Cayton-Holland.

 


Television - Joanne Ostrow

James Jespersen, co-inventor of closed captioning, dies at 77
James Leland Jespersen of Boulder died of a heart attack in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Nov. 24 while visiting a friend. Jespersen, 77, a co-inventor of closed captioning for the hearing impaired, won an Emmy Award for his work in 1980 and was honored at the White House.  


Theater - John Moore

Denver's run of "The Book of Mormon" sells out in five hours
The Broadway show "The Book of Mormon" is already a hit in Denver — though many theatergoers will miss it because the 51,000 tickets for the run sold out in less than five hours.  


Society - Joanne Davidson

Davidson: Honoring those who went all out for Colorado Gives Day
It's not just the $12.4 million that was raised through Colorado Gives Day 2011 that's so phenomenal; equally impressive were the lengths some organizations went through to entice  


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