SF News U-Haul Truck Full of Shadow Puppets Found Abandoned In Richmond, Puppeteer Very Grateful A puppeteer passing through San Francisco has been reunited with hundreds of Persian shadow puppets that were inside a U-Haul van stolen from Van Ness Avenue Sunday night.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Muppets Doing Blow Well, isn't this... cute? It's a video for a song featuring a lot of kazoos called "Your Parents' Cocaine," by Oakland-based outfit The Coup. And it features some shoddily made muppets, a bouncy
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "If You Were Gay" from Avenue Q Didja hear? Avenue Q is coming back to town! The Tony Award-winning Best Musical will be playing the Orpheum from February 15 to February 27. Get tickets here. With that, here's a clip
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Dirty British Kids' Show This particular spoof episode of the 1970s British children's show "Rainbow" is real (not over-dubbed, like so much of such similar material on YouTube), but it never went on air for the public.
Arts & Entertainment Puppet Opera: La Liberazione di Ruggiero La Liberazione di Ruggiero is arguably the first opera written by a woman, and features strong feminist themes and a challenge to patriarchal society, but honestly, they had us at Puppet Opera. And