Austin Chronicle - An intimate look at the artist behind closed doors, with hand puppets, granny panties, and baby Jesus. “Pushkin Ploshit!” by Shelia Gordon. The life of an American woman in Moscow: boiling sinkholes, asphalt deathtraps, and conversations with the Read more

Pharos-Tribune - Valeria Cortes checks out one of the hand puppets that is part of the early literacy Train Station every Monday afternoon at the Logansport Public Library. ReadingRR3.jpg LIBRARY ADVENTURE: Scott Alpha plays with his daughters, Grace and Ilene Read more

Chattanoogan - Here children can dress up like a grizzly bear; crawl into a stump and hibernate in a winter den; and play with animal hand puppets wolf, mouse, bear cub and more. Kids can make their own animal tracks and identify tracks of deer, bear, squirrel Read more

Salon - What do “Kokiriko Bushi,” an animated video featuring a nimble hand-puppet skeleton break-dancing to a disco version of an ancient Japanese folk tune and “Tell-Me-What [KaMaL],” a south Asian club mix featuring a profane Punjabi female rapper in a Read more

New York Observer - Here is how some court cases affected the elections. And above is Adam Green with his John Murtha hand puppet. Belated Update : The mayor’s Deputy Press Secretary Jennifer Falk is leaving to become the Executive Director of the Union Square Partnership Read more

Quad-Cities Times - Cindy McCain, right, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., uses a cheetah hand puppet to make her husband laugh as they ride the “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus to a polling station on the day of South Carolina’s Read more

Amandala - Espat paid for his impudence by being expelled from Cabinet in December of 2004, but, as a PUP backbencher in the House in 2005, he publicly attacked the Lord as the PUP puppet master. Read more