Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

How one TV neighborhood became our shared classroom

"...I saw my first Hispanic person: She was on Sesame Street. Growing up in industrial Northern Britain in the..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Street

Chinatown's new pan-Asian concept covers all the bases

"...he thinks will last through the slowdown. The SEO-defying Street, settled into the downstairs space from the Northwest Chinatown,..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

We're tickled silly by this documentary.

"...As it turned out, many a youngster raised on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show went on to pursue..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

"...It seems blasphemous to say anything bad about the Sesame Street gang. I have visions of waking one morning..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fox Versus Grouch

News Corp. fans take on the evils of Sesame Street

"...bullied by those nasty White House socialists, but now Sesame Street is ganging up on them...."

Nov. 10, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lovers, the Dreamers, et al.

An April shower of Muppets programming at the Alamo Ritz

"...meaning those formative childhood years parked in front of Sesame Street or The Muppet Movie, and "now" meaning an..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: I Am Big Bird

Life inside the feather suit

"...giant yellow friend to children everywhere first appeared on Sesame Street in 1969, it's been the same man inside..."

Jan. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Wonderful World of Frank Oz

It’s time to meet the folks behind Muppet Guys Talking

"...diversity, and what vaudeville was. They took us to Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock, to the storyteller’s fireplace and..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Blank Generation

Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'

"...Like a phoenix – a ratty, 47-year-old bisexual ex-con-junkie-streetwalker phoenix with serious malocclusion and daddy issues – rising..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

Have You Ever Been to Carrascolendas?

The Bilingual Education Act in 1968 sparked an unprecedented number of bilingual television programs for children, and the Austin-produced children's series Carrascolendas, which premiered in 1970, was among the first.

"...much as 10 minutes of Spanish appear in some Sesame Street episodes."..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Bog Bodies, Blood Pulling, and Muppets: Making the Monster of Boys From County Hell

How Chris Baugh raised the evil of Irish vampire

"...that job was that I got to work on Sesame Tree, the Irish version of Sesame Street. I got..."

May 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

Do the right thing! Or not.

"...The Street We Live On: A special celebrating 35 years of..."

April 2, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Arrebato

Addicted to filmmaking in this newly restored Spanish horror

"...that impressive (Zulueta made the film eight years after Sesame Street had completely normalized the form for kids globally..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Amusement Park

Romero's lost film is more than a curio

"...distressing as seeing someone shoplift from Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street. Yet it's Romero's contribution that is most surprising...."

June 4, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Happytime Murders

Puppet comedy crime caper is less Feebles, more just feeble

"...Q knew their show was being consumed by former Sesame Street fans in desperate need of puppet-sized life lessons,..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

God Help the Girl

Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's first film is a charming movie musical in the key of Mod.

"...that train being boarded), and there’s something about its Sesame Street-like literalness, combined with the student-film aesthetic (unpolished, exuberant),..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Scary Movie 5

This parodic auto-mash-up of Paranormal Activity, Black Swan, The Evil Dead, and more is even worse than you think.

"...2 and The Hangover 3 rolled like a deranged Sesame Street counting lesson, I expected more people to trickle..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

SXSW Film Reviews: 'The Network'

Eye-opening and heartwarming doc about independent television in Afghanistan

"...news, cooking and travel shows, dramas, and, yes, even Sesame Street – for a population where people often gather..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The AggreGAYtor: November 12

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Elmo’s alleged affair with an underage male rocks Sesame Street...."

Nov. 12, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...raised in the Baltimore projects worshipping Captain Kangaroo. When Sesame Street premiered in 1969, Clash was a preteen fascinated..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Todd Barry: Todd Barry Rock City

The veteran stand-up comic isn't a rock star, but he played one on TV

"...AC: You played a great Lucky No. 7 on Sesame Street. Though your scene didn't involve direct collaboration, the..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Wondrous Journey

At Conspirare's concert Wondrous Journey, the sheer pleasure that this choral ensemble's members take in singing shone through even more resplendently than usual

"...Conspirare Children's Choir joined the adult company for the Sesame Street standard "Sing." Joe Raposo's lyrics might strike some..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

TV Eye

Saving the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is going to require stepping outside the bleeding-heart comfort zone

"...the Ready to Learn Program, which funds programs like Sesame Street and other shows most viewers equate with quality..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Laughing Wild

Like a (Canadian) figure skating pair, actors Kirk Burg and Katie Brock provide the most entertainment in town, but in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild, they don't get to work with the most fulfilling piece of art.

"...from schtick that stretches credibility. Only the Count of Sesame Street could get away with a repeatedly long and..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

The Score

"...to such varied -- and inhuman -- characters as Sesame Street's Cookie Monster, The Muppet Show's Miss Piggy, and..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Human-Headed Flies

Drastic Space III:

"...and Friends and Michael Jordan and Sam Donaldson and Sesame Street, take your pick, it all comes through that..."

June 20, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Xenophobia?

International Acts at SXSW

"...conspiracy theorists. So Sarah sings and it's a fun Sesame Street ditty (as if Big Bird would ever sing..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

KLRU Turns 50, Throws a Weeklong Party

Bon Iver, Yul Kwon, and GPS-free directions to Sesame Street

"...The Spark speaker series continues Tuesday, April 24, with Sesame Workshop’s Miles Ludwig, who’ll be speaking on the topic..."

April 21, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: Reveries

Beauty is something you don't have to deserve

"...on the TV (it gets three Amarillo channels). There's Sesame Street: two cartoon panels, illustrated. Together they say: "'Life..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...both the Red Krayola's free-form freak-outs and Joe Raposo's Sesame Street songs. Michigan songwriter Sufjan Stevens delivered a melancholy..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

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