Even though he’ll be 6 years old forever, Sesame Street’s favorite yellow bird is technically turning 55 on March 20. Big Bird, an 8-foot, 2-inch, flightless-bird that may or may not be a canary, made ...

Animation had lost its luster until Pixar came on the scene and shined it up. We talk to one of their chief polishers, writer and director Brad Bird, about retired superheroes, rats that cook and ...

That's what he decides on the "Sesame Street" season opener. A rapping real-estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat ("habitat," the episode's "Word on the Street"). After sizing up a ...