A parade of puppets managed to string along the Los Angeles City Council long enough Wednesday to persuade them to designate a marionette theater as a historic-cultural landmark.
The animated figures danced and pranced atop the council’s ornate horseshoe- shaped desk in City Hall chambers before officials voted 14-0 to place Bob Baker Marionette Theater on the monument list.
Puppeteer Steve Meltzer waltzed his song-and-dance- man figure named “Calvin Collidisworth” across the council desk as puppeteer Christine Papalexis pranced a fuzzy dog character called “Fluffy.”
“I got to bark at (Councilman) Bernard Parks,” Papalexis said afterward. “That was cool. He asked, ‘Does he bite?’ ”
Self discovery in Egypt
“That looks like me! Look at those ears.”
President Barack Obama, on a particular Egyptian hieroglyphic in Giza
Church chief to appeal ruling over noisy peals
A Phoenix church leader has received a suspended 10-day jail sentence because his tolling church bells violated a city noise ordinance.
Bishop Richard Painter says he’ll appeal.
The bells at the Cathedral of Christ the King in northwest Phoenix normally chime at the top of every hour from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Neighbors say the bells are too loud and ring too often.
In addition to Painter’s sentence, the judge on Wednesday restricted chimes at the church to no more than 60 decibels for two minutes on Sundays and specific religious holidays.
New, green Coke
“We wanted to cater to people who are looking for something that tastes good but is also good for health and beauty.”
Katsuya Sato, Coke spokesman, announcing that green-tea flavor Coca-Cola will hit Japanese shelves next week
