Ventriloquist Wilma Swartz doesn’t want anyone to refer to her characters as the “D” word. “Vent pals” would be a more appropriate term since the “Dummies” books own the copyrights to the word, she ...

Your brain’s system for directing attention is what makes you think a puppet has a mind of its own, Michael Graziano told me. He is a neuroscientist at Princeton and author of Consciousness and the ...

YORK, Maine — Austin Phillips said he was known as “the puppet kid” growing up in York. In his yearbook photos, he typically was holding a ventriloquist dummy. Now, Phillips, 29, is a growing talent ...

SALEM, Va. – After the winner of "America's Got Talent" was crowned, the world now knows the name of Darci Lynne Farmer, the 12-year-old singing ventriloquist who captured the hearts of America and ...