Puppets and Puppetry

The Six Sweetest Riffs of All Time

I, Ryan James Wasoba, hereby announce that, after over a year and a half of weekly contributions, the end of my Nitpick Six column is upon us. As such, it's bucket list time. This space is usually reserved for microscopic aspects of music, but now let's go big. These are the six sweetest riffs of ... More >>

Chanson de Puppet

Smut Puppets

Steedy As She Goes: War Horse will amaze — and test your endurance

Joey's A Great Hoofer

Joey's A Great Hoofer

Beauty Without Borders

The Worst of the Season

Hooters New Ad Campaign Features Cruelly Casual Mockery of the Inexorable Decline of the Human Body -- Also: Puppets!

Ur-breastaurant Hooters has embarked upon what Nation's Restaurant News terms, without even a hint of a smile, "a brand augmentation" to compete against the up-and-comers in its ever-more-crowded field. That includes expanded, upgraded menus -- no, the chicken wings aren't going anywhere -- and an a ... More >>

VIDEO: Watch the Funny (and Creepy) Best Film of St. Louis' 48-Hour Film Project

The conceit of the 48-Hour Film Festival is that teams have only two days to write, shoot and edit a film as best they can, working off a few prompts; in this year's contest, they had to include a puppeteer character, a checkbook, and the line, "Where are we going?""Imagined Slights," the video belo ... More >>

Academy Awards 2012: A Breakdown of the Two Animal Race for Best Original Song

Most people wouldn't care to know who prevails in a fight between puppets and animated birds -- unless they've taken some sort of hallucinogen. But that's precisely the battle set to be resolved Sunday during the latest iteration of the Academy Awards. The Best Original Song award this year is a tw ... More >>

Controlled Chaos

Giveaway: An Evening with Jeff Dunham

Jeff Dunham wants you to come have a good time at his show.​I have one pair of tickets to give away to comic puppetmaster Jeff Dunham's show at the Family Arena on Wednesday, February 29. "Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos" features all of his most popular puppets as well as two new characters: Achmed ... More >>

This Is the Stuff

Reality Bites

Muppets reboot can't quite get its act together

Meet Scarlet Tanager, St. Louis' Most Adorable New Band

​In this past week's Homespun column, we spent some time with Scarlet Tanager's American Songbird, an album of sweetly sung, enthusiastically performed pop songs. The band also put together an unforgettable video for the song "Tumbleweed," which you can peep below. We caught up with lead sing ... More >>

What Hams! 5 Best Videos of Kids and Food!

image via​Last week Gut Check explored the do's and don't's of dining out with children. Although the little ones don't always make for the best fancy-dining companions, kids and food are often a recipe for hilarity -- especially when the mess is being made on your computer screen and not the ... More >>

Hands Up

Cratchit!

Carrie Underwood

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 1. The Chaifetz Arena, One South Compton Avenue.

Health Help From Puppets

​Navigating the health care system in this country is tough enough for people who grew up here. Toss in a language barrier and things can get downright hairy.So the St. Louis Christian Chinese Community Center is reaching out to recent Asian immigrants and elderly Asians through an ancient and tra ... More >>

Mr. Whatever

Show Review: Quintron and Miss Pussycat's Puppet Show and Dance Party at the Firebird, Tuesday, June 22

Bryan J. SutterQuintron at the Firebird​Quintron and Miss Pussycat appear at once to be very ordinary, down-to-earth people, while simultaneously being utterly surreal. They're a pretty cute married couple, partially because of (or perhaps despite) their coordinated outfits. They're the type o ... More >>

Street Smart

Holidays in the CWE

Keeping it festive

Strings Attached

It's time to visit the puppet master

Makin' History at Herstory

Power to the Puppets

Get Felt Up

All the Whirl's a Stage

Harptallica

8 p.m. Sunday, September 9. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue

The Ditty Bops

7 p.m. (all-ages) and 10 p.m. (21+) Thursday, August 23. Mad Art Gallery, 2727 South 12th Street.

Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Film Openings

Week of March 15, 2007

Christmas Fantasy Is Reality

Burning the Yule Log

Pez Puppet Theater

(Joe's Café, Kingsbury Avenue in Skinker-Debaliviere)

Happy Hunting, Mr. Vice Pezident

Happy Feet

B-Sides compares Tony Danza's tap-dancing and acting, gets cozy with Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and doesn't balk at a new scene trading card

Doom Generation

Week of April 10, 2002

Open Sesame

A new exhibit lets youngsters get up close and personal with their favorite TV show

One of Everything

The Florissant Valley of Flowers Festival delivers a bouquet of activities

Masters of Puppets

Montreal's Theatre de l'Oeil brings the sparkling Star Keeper to town

Slap-Happy

The Kincaid Karacter Puppets put a modern spin on the classic Punch-and-Judy tale

Comedy for the Devil

The hellishly funny Dave Attell makes ready for a hot time at the Funny Bone

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Directed by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey

African-Amazin'

Powell Symphony Hall is overtaken by giant shadow puppets

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH

Directed by Spike Jonze

TOY STORY

Nearly a decade after his death, renowned puppeteer Hunt Bushnell is saluted in an exhibit at Lindenwood University