Bird Encyclopedia Links

Muppets, madness and magic -- behind the scenes on 'Sesame Street' (The Buffalo News)

“Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street” is more Cliff Notes than encyclopedia. It breezes through more than 50 years of children's television history in zigzag fashion, dropping names and facts so fast that it's hard to keep track. In the end, it's less a complete history than a loosely structured collection of anecdotes. But the subject matter is so compelling -- how a ragtag bunch ...

Born: September 27, 1927 | Died: May 27, 1994 (All About Jazz)

Primarily known as Charlie Parker’s trumpet player in 1949, Red Rodney went on to become a legend himself and made several dramatic comebacks during his career to solidify his reputation as a bebop trumpeter and keeper of the flame.

Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie on View at the Menil Collection (Art Daily)

Max Ernst, Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie (Mural), 1934. Oil on plaster transferred to block board panels 163 ½ x 209 inches. Credit Line: Kunsthaus Zürich, Photo © Kunsthaus Zürich © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

The art of the bedtime story (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Although the stories Adam Sandler reads to his own 2-year-old daughter, Sadie, rarely come true, he says he adds other surprises when it comes to the bedtime ritual.

Will Michelle Heaton run from Shrek? (Anorak)

What’s that under the tree, the round parcel that won’t sit still?… A big black bomb from a comic? A giant fat-ball to hang above the bird bath? A soap-on-a-rope for Vanessa Feltz?