Costume News Archive - 04-Mar-2008

  • Conference explores meth's impact (Helena Independent Record)
    A Colorado drug task force was about to bust a methamphetamine lab when they saw a 4-year-old boy in a skeleton costume.


  • Juiced for Seuss w/ link to NEA Web site (The Joplin Globe)
    Brandon McCoy didn?t mind dressing the part. The Joplin High School junior dressed on Monday as the star of Dr. Seuss? beloved children?s book ?The Cat in the Hat.? He read to Joplin students in costume as part of Read Across America Day.


  • Athletes read Dr. Seuss to local third graders (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
    To help celebrate "Grab Your Hat and Read with the Cat" Day, in homage to children's author Dr. Seuss's March 2 birthday, three very tall University of Massachusetts athletes walked into an elementary school wearing big costume hats with their favorite Seuss books.


  • Remembering and recovering (Americus Times-Recorder)
    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.


  • Witch's costume incomplete without dustpan (The Gleaner)
    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.


  • The Villages Vintage Jewelry Club learns how to identify quality costume jewelry (Villages Daily Sun)
    THE VILLAGES ? Perhaps costume jewelry is a little ostentatious, Caryn Krisha said, but it?s so much fun to wear. ?It?s the ritz,? said the Village of Virginia Trace resident. ?When I worked, it became my trademark.?


  • 'King Arthur' holds court in Miami (Miami Herald)
    Gary Beach, who looked so fetching in his Chrysler Building drag in Mel Brooks' The Producers, will appear in the relatively butch costume of King Arthur when Monty Python's Spamalot opens Tuesday 8 p.m. at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. We caught up with the Tony Award winner by phone in Fort Myers, where he was busily preparing for his latest coronation.


  • Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed (Games Radar)
    (Requires: Zombie gun, Shrink ray, PK) You have to be in your normal costume for this to work. Shrink someone. Make someone else a zombie. PK the zombie next to the Small dude. Body Switch with Shrunk Guy. The Zombie should begin to attack you. Get out of body!


  • Monster roles (Kingston Daily Freeman)
    Christopher Fitzgerald. (AP photo) When Christopher Fitzgerald learned he'd be in one of Broadway's biggest shows, he was already deep in another role. He was trying to act from inside an enormous, marshmallowy Cabbage Patch costume, filming one of those offbeat Geiko auto insurance commercials.


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    Costume News Archive - 04-Mar-2008