We look back over the year’s wildlife photographs, and hand out some much-deserved gongs to brilliant and beautiful creatures around the world ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed This free, family-friendly outdoor event features a short performance at 5:32 PM, ...

Last month we featured footage of an enormous, dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a tour boat in Uganda. The ominous-looking bird, with its bulbous, razor-sharp bill, stood perhaps 4 feet tall ...

The 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is fast approaching, so get set for 12 straight days of incredible ...

From the 6th to the 8th November, a parade of giant puppets took to the streets of Bamako, the capital of Mali, for the annual puppet festival "Rendez-Vous Chez Nous". This happened despite a ...

Amid Mali’s fuel blockade and threats from armed groups, giant puppets brought life to Bamako, with its annual marionette festival, known as Rendez-vous chez nous, going ahead despite the challenges.

There was Muchos Colores, rising to her 12-foot height and decked out in a multi-colored ensemble complete with red-pedicured talons. And Mother Earth, sporting a crown of greenery and a flowered blue ...

Anna Karina Delage visited New Orleans many times after Hurricane Katrina before moving here and working for various nonprofit and advocacy groups. She worked for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and ...

Mother Earth and four other puppets are being created as more than 50 local artists and artistically inclined friends participate in a summer project initiated by ARRT (Artists Respond and Resist ...

Althea Clayton, a puppeteer with Paperhand Puppet Intervention, looks out from a river puppet during a rehearsal for the organization’s show, “The Gift,” on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at the Forest ...