Costume News Archive - 02-Mar-2008
Phoenix police said officers got in a gun fight with a man Thursday afternoon after he shot at another man wearing a Statue of Liberty costume.
Around Halloween time, 3-1/2-year-old Scotlyn Vaughn, daughter of Scott and Amy Vaughn, was playing "dress up" at her "granny" Sally Barnard's house using an old witch's costume.
NEW YORK - Platform shoes, leisure suits, fondue, fro picks. What used to be cool is now the stuff of comedy. When it comes to period comedies, the '70s are the equivalent of Victorian era costume drama.
A softball game, music, costume contest, concessions and a country music star headlined the Red Cross? recovery celebration, ?There?s No Place Like Home? on Saturday.
Platform shoes, leisure suits, fondue, fro picks: what used to be cool is now the stuff of comedy. When it comes to period comedies, the '70s are the equivalent of Victorian era costume drama. While serious-minded filmmakers are forever reaching back to the time of royalty clad in waistcoats and dressing gowns, comedians are more likely to cull from the less halcyon days of disco and sideburns.
WEEKI WACHEE - The Moss Man wanted to keep it as real as possible. Aside from the rubber snakes he was clutching in his left hand, the rest of the costume came from the actual swamps of the Gulf Coast.
Hiroki Kuroda made his Los Angeles Dodgers debut, minus the Elvis Presley costume. Jair Jurrjens took the mound for the Atlanta Braves, hoping to show his favorite team that he's worth star shortstop Edgar Renteria.
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KENNEWICK -- The costume ball is at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick. It's going on right now until 10:30 tonight. There's live entertainment, a costume contest and auctions. Tickets are 50 dollars or 350 dollars for a table of eight people.
When convicted murderer Stephen Grant was wheeled out of a northern Michigan hospital following his arrest last March, he was wearing Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel's Halloween costume -- a black-and-white prison getup Hackel had planned to wear to a party.
