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Someone's looking for a puppeteer to do a costume/puppet in St. Louis. Here's the details: Pays $75 per day plus a performance based bonus at the end of the run. In between shows and breaks you get to play & interact with the patrons. Performances run 30 minutes 2-3 times daily. You are not...

The big day is of course this Saturday (although it's sometimes celebrated at other times of the month in some areas) and I've compiled a list of most of the events happening around the US at blog.bear-town.com. If anyone knows of other events happening elsewhere please share your info here!!

Puppeteer needed in MA for: Work-in-Progress reading of excerpt from A State of Grace, by Underground Railway Theater. Dates of rehearsals: Ideally Tuesday, April 27, 10-11:30 am plus additional afternoon rehearsal if needed. Perhaps one other rehearsal on either Wednesday, April 21 or...

I am slowly bringing my web site back online...I'm going to be adding a number of new articles and features over the next month or so. The first is a guide to puppet building resources. Most of these have probably been pointed out by either myself or other people here in the forum before, but I...

For anyone on the west coast who might be interested, I got this in an email today: The final two Masking Shadow Characters workshops are happening this weekend. Here's the info: McGroarty Arts Center - 7570 McGroarty Terrace - Tujunga Saturday April 17th from 4:30-6:30pm Sunday...

Normally I hate people who clutter up my inbox with those well-intended but annoying "inspirational" emails (OK, I'm cynical I admit it) but every once and awhile I get a really good one. I haven't checked, but I assume this story is true: His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish...

This is a few days late but kind of interesting all the same: On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet. Hoping to drum up some business, Laurence Canter dashed off a Perl script that flooded online...

I was putting this in a new blog entry and thought everyone here might like to see...Kathleen David (wife of noted genre author Peter David) recently threw some pics of her very own Smile Time Angel puppet on her web site at http://homepage.mac.com/kathodavid/PhotoAlbum11.html. You can also...

A church trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting several parents and young children. :eek: :eek: :eek: Wow, first the crazy Iraq stuff and then - on a less serious note - this which...

If you've got a few thousand to spare and have been dying to get your hands on a sophisticated animatronic puppets, well, you're in luck! Tim Carroll - a former Muppet and Creature Shop builder - has put a animatronic Teddy Bear built for a TV show that never got off the ground up on ebay...

Got this via email... A new 2-1/2 minute trailer for Spider-Man 2 will make its debut this Thursday night on NBC's The Apprentice (9pm ET, PT). USA Today broke the story of the trailer's debut and cited a potential audience of 22 million as the primary reason Sony is debuting the trailer on...

Here it is - The Geek Hierarchy. Notice that Muppet fan doesn't even show up...not sure if that mean were just not 'geek' or if it means that the erotic Furry fanfic writers are makin' fun of us!!

I know some people on here are in to Christian puppetry. Just heard about a site that (apparently) has some very good free scripts. It's been around awhile but I'm not sure if anyone's posted about it before. Enjoy & God Bless :halo: http://www.fea.net/bobsnook/

Hi all, Sent this out via my mailing list, but thought I would mention here that if anyone is trying to access my site - www.bear-town.com - part (or all) of it will be offline over the next week while I do a major upgrade. They'll be a new look, a new forum, some spiffy flash animation and...

Just posted a blurb about this in my Blog and thought some of you might be interested - it's from the Louisville Courier-Journal and is about that fact that (duh) puppets aren't just for kids. `Ya gotta love how clued-in the media is. :rolleyes: To be fair, it's not the worst of these...

According to Halfway Down The Stairs, The Count is scheduled to appear on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olberman March 31 at 8 pm eastern. Sound be fun! :sing: (because I couldn't find a more appropriate Jerry Nelson character)

Canada Goes To War! (well, not really) I've posted this in a few of the forums I frequent. This is such a bizarre little story that I had to share. It's kind of funny, kind of sad and really highlights the problems with Canada's military. Here in Canada we're all ticked off and having a...

This is for Canadian fans, Chapters/Indigo is running a promotion right now where they take 20% off all children's merchandise, which includes some new Sesame puppets by Ganz they seem to have gotten in the past few weeks. The characters available include Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie, Oscar, Bert...

Ah...you may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 styles of Rumsfeld? Kung-Fu fans will get a kick out of this. :zany:

This is from the PofA Board.... Need puppet maker to create 6 custom designed hand puppets for upcoming children's video production. Located in Seattle, WA. Please contact me via email at: samrd@comcast.net or my partner at drink_milk@msn.com. Feel free to email resume's and any examples of...