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Little princesses, ages 3-6, enjoyed fairy-tale magic during House of Talent's Princess Camp, July 28-Aug. 1, as they danced to their favorite princess music, including "The Little Mermaid,""Cinderella" and other fairytale songs. The five-day camp included dancing, singing, snacks, story time, and princess crafts and a Princess Tea Party. In addition, princesses performed a magic routine for parents on the final day of camp. House of Talent is a complete performing arts studio dedicated to...

Noah's Ark Animal Workshop(R) has partnered with the Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida in an attempt to break a current Guinness World Record - the "Largest Gathering of Plush Toys". On Sept. 6, company representatives will join the girls at the Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla. in an effort to break the record, said Dina Amico-Kriescher, president and founder of Noah's Ark. "Making smiles and dreams come true is what Noah's Ark Animal Workshop(R) was founded on," Amico-Kriescher said. "So,...

Researchers said on Tuesday that the supposed corpse of a Bigfoot discovered by two men hiking in the woods of Georgia has been deemed a fake.The hairy heap claimed by the men to be the corpse of the mythical half-ape, half-human creature was actually a full-body rubber gorilla costume.Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the owners of a company that offers Bigfoot merchandise claimed they discovered the Bigfoot corpse while hiking in the woods of northern Georgia. The pair then released a picture...

By Ian Johnston IT WAS hailed as "definitive evidence" that Bigfoot existed. The discovery of "something large, hairy and frozen in ice" in woods in America by a heroic police officer made international headlines and attracted interest from a team who have been earnestly searching for the legendary ape-like beast for years. They purchased the remains for an undisclosed fee and set about the delicate process of thawing the body. So it is hard to imagine just how disappointing it must have...

By WALTER PUTNAM DECATUR, Ga. - Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars. The bureau's state crime lab lobby has its requisite displays on forensic science, including an illegal moonshine still and the microscopic fibers that solved the 1981-82 Atlanta child murders. But tucked away in a glass cylinder are the preserved remains of a...

By Jenny Gilbert These two inventive shows are a daring and delicious assault on the imagination Dance Faeries Clore Studio LONDON Noah Babel's Ark Lindfield WEST SUSSEX Fairytale, as everyone knows, is all about the dark forests of unconscious desire. Faeries, on the other hand, the new family show from the Royal Ballet's Will Tuckett, is all about, and only about, fairies. But this isn't a cue for you to stop reading. Anyone curious about the power of theatre will be enthralled by...

By ZOE ANDERSON Dance FAERIES Clore Studio Upstairs: Royal Opera House LONDON *** JAH WOBBLE CHINESEDUB Bush Hall LONDON **** When the gold coffin is discovered in Faeries, a group of children come up from the audience to peer inside. Will Tuckett's new show is designed for families, with fairies addressing the audience and asking for help with spells. By the time we got to the coffin, the children had been drawn right into the action. Faeries is the latest in a series of Tuckett family...

By GLENN PRICE An ark that Noah himself would have been proud of will take centre stage tomorrow as St Matthias Church celebrates its 150th anniversary. The Rev Janyce Pringle, a member of the clergy team at the Torquay church, and her friends have built the boat for a performance of the popular musical Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo. The show, written by award-winning duo Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz, tells the Biblical tale of Noah and the flood. Janyce hopes the show, which...

By Ken Keuffel, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jun. 22--Rats! In Manteo, they seem to be everywhere, and kids are, like, really mad at them. The kids say that rats are stealing bikes and lunches, and making off with toys. The rats have made a bad situation even worse. There aren't enough playgrounds in Manteo, and garbage keeps piling up. Enter Ben Gunderson, a rising college senior studying acting at the N.C. School of the Arts. He's playing the title role in Take One Step -- the New Pied...

By Steffan Rhys LIGHTS at the end of a tunnel, spirits floating above their bodies on the hospital operating table, and lives flashing before your eyes. They have all been the most commonly described near-death experiences for as long as the often-doubted phenomenon has existed. But a five-year research project by a Welsh nurse suggests these stories are so common because they actually happen. Intensive therapy nurse Penny Sartori worked closely with critically-ill patients at Morriston and...