Axel F entertains audiences to the tune of the "Beverly Hills Cop" theme. submitted GREENFIELD — There’s something magical about puppets — especially the ones on strings, called marionettes. You pull ...
Outside the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in L.A.'s Highland Park, executive director and head puppeteer Alex Evans operates Happy the Birthday Dog puppet. The "Marionette Mobile" helped the company ...
You won't need to board a tour shuttle nor lace up your strolling sneakers: "Hooray LA!" is shimmering, like the stars of ...
Not long after he’s started working at Bob Baker Marionette Theater in the mid-’80s, Randal J. Metz recalls Bob Baker literally dropping an assignment into his lap: The puppetry legend and Metz’s boss ...
It was 1961, Bob Baker was looking for a place for him and his beloved marionettes to call their own. Handcrafted and each with its own distinctive “personality,” the Bob Baker Marionette Theater was ...
Harry Mayronne is a musician and an artist. The evidence lies all over his French Quarter home: a piano, stereo equipment, and stacks of vinyl occupy one room; sculpting tools, paintbrushes and clay ...
You'll probably find a few of those in your kitchen's busy drawer, rolling around the drawer's front section, where all of your pens live. A small roll of cardboard, the kind of that typically holds ...
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