HUNTSVILLE, AL. - The Huntsville Jaycees’ 49th annual Northeast Alabama State Fair will feature several new attractions, including the Star Family Circus and Thrill Show, the Rowdy Rooster Puppet Show ...

Now, in the radio business, we think a lot about sound and what it means. Sound is not always what it seems, as NPR's Corey Flintoff reminds us from Moscow. COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Imagine that you're ...

Hundreds of people attended Art Night 2025 on April 3 at Highland Park High School as part of the 60th anniversary of the FOCUS on the Arts initiative. Focus on the Arts 2025 was a consecutive ...

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. It’s all about the puppets. They are the stars, after all — the frog singing and whistling Al Jolsen’s “Swanee,’’ the dog and rooster duet of “There’s ...

Puppet shows generally are thought to be the exclusive province of sweet innocence, an enclave devoted to wholesome pleasure for small children. But puppets and their manipulators do break loose. The ...

A rooster crowing in the dead of night? A sinister ice-cream truck playing a creepy tune as it trundles through the streets of Moscow? No, it's the musical automaton clock at the Puppet Theater. Now, ...

A rooster crowing in the dead of night? A sinister ice-cream truck on the streets of Moscow? No, it's the musical automaton clock at the Puppet Theater in Russia. Our own Russian correspondent, Corey ...

Our own Russian correspondent, Corey Flintoff, spends much of his time reporting on the activities of Vladimir Putin in Russia. But sometimes it's what's outside his own window in Moscow that ...