If there’s one thing that the annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival always delivers, it’s sheer range. The eighth iteration, running January 21 through February 1, features retellings ...

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The Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival is underway. One of the hottest tickets this year was Manual Cinema’s “The Fourth Witch,” a fresh take on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” WBEZ theater ...

Atop the tallest pyramid at the site of San Isidro in western El Salvador, archaeologists have unearthed five ceramic figurines dating to around 400 b.c. Each figurine has an evocative facial ...

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From tiny comedy clubs to sold-out theaters and arenas, ventriloquist and comedian Jeff Dunham has spent decades traveling the world. This weekend, he brings his new tour, "Artificial Intelligence," ...

One of the season’s leading themes was “fashion as feeling”—a fitting sentiment not only captured in the movement of the clothes (the fringe! the feathers! the frothy lace!) as designers experimented ...

The Super Bowl is in the books, and MLB spring training has arrive. Players are on their way to spring training camps in Arizona and Florida this week and pitchers and catchers are officially start to ...

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