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This bronze sculpture of the googly-eyed, flute-nosed Doo Doo commemorates its creator, Street Puppeteer Igor Fokin. Fokin moved to Harvard Square from Russia in 1993 and began performing a 15-minute marionette act that included Doo Doo, his favorite puppet. Fokin carved all the dozen or so puppets in his show, drawing on Russian folk stories to create new characters. Doo Doo was an original character; its name comes from Fokin’s pronounciation of “Toot Toot” in a deep, Russian-accented voice...
...sculpture of Doo Doo was paid in part by the The Fund for the Arts, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Harvard Square Business Association. It was unveiled in a ceremony attended by 250 people on September...
...Scooby-Doo episode, Shaggy and his friends play a basketball team that cheats by using supercharged "electronic sneakers." Gizmos on real-life sneakers are getting nearly as outlandish. Nike's Shox line, below left, introduced late last year at $150 a pair, features springs in the heels, providing runners and hoopsters with what the company calls "responsive cushioning." This summer the company also released Air Hyperflights, above right, an extra-light basketball shoe combining a new synthetic material with snazzy, Ferrari-like styling. Sneakers like Skidz and Street Flyers are incorporating roller-skating wheels. And one new brand, Heelys...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there's something that should perk up his interest in environmental issues. Welcome home, Mr. President, there's cow doo-doo, as your daddy used to say, in the water. Bush's weekend ranch is on Rainey Creek, which runs into the Middle Bosque River. About six miles away is the North Bosque River and two counties over is Erath County, home to at least 250 factory dairy farms called CAFOs, for confined-animal feeding operations. The CAFOs milk as many as 2,000 cows a day, and the county has about 110,000 dairy...
...Then Leiber and Stoller turned around and masterminded the lushest, most romantic and musically inventive genre rock had yet heard: the Drifters? song book. Their first effort, the King composition "There Goes My Baby," is still one of pop?s weirdest records: a standard doo-wop lament that has four violins and a cello sawing away (a jarring innovation back then) and, like a distant war drum, a timpani that no one knew how to tune and so hits one note no matter what the chord change. When Wexler first heard this bizarre melange, he was more than disappointed...