Amid the summer swirl of smiling tourists at Pike Place Market, and at festivals like this weekend's Bite of Seattle, slumps the sad balloon man. Behind the red and black clown makeup, Farrel Thomas ...
Stephanie Morace was a full-time engineer in Baton Rouge when a balloon artist outside a New Orleans coffee shop captured her imagination 11 years ago. "I was sitting in Cafe Du Monde, watching a ...