Jimmy Wang Yang (5 foot 9 and 205 pounds) and his partner Eve Torres take on Carlito (5 foot 10 and 220 pounds) and his partner Maryse in a coed tag-team  bout during WWE SummerFest 2008 on Saturday, August 9, 2008. Torres pinned Maryse and won the bout for her team.

The Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department presents, "The Wizard of Oz" at SMC's Studio Stage on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Dorothy Gale was performed by Lauryn Muraida; The Tin Man was performed by Chris Tiernan; The Cowardly Lion was performed by Andrea Chapdelaine, The Scarecrow was performed by Faisal Salah and the Wicked Witch of the East was performed by Alyssa Tyson.  -- The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy, her little dog Toto, and their adventures "over the rainbow" and into the Land of Oz.  Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated into well over 40 different languages.

ACT 3 Puppeteers Katie Shook (right) and DanRae Wilson (left) perform, "Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter 1.75 " during The Puppet Shows: Part I, Act 3, at Santa Monica Museum of Art on Saturday, July 26, 2008. A serial noir story set in the lesbian bars, cop shops, and street-cars of McCarthy era Los Angeles.

Three year-old Emma dances with puppets to the soundtrack “It ain’t what you make, it’s what makes you do it,” at  Santa Monica Museum of Art's   'The Puppet Show' on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at Bergamot Station. The multi-puppet installation is by artist Dennis Oppenheim and titled 'Theme for a Major Hit, 1974' (motor driven marionettes, wood, cloth, felt, soundtrack, tape player, and external speakers soundtrack). The marionettes dance for 2 minutes and rest for 8 minutes all day long.  ~  International in scope, the exhibition brings together works by 28 contemporary artists who explore the imagery of puppets in sculpture, film, video, time-based media, animation, and 2D work. The Puppet Show installation includes works by participating artists as well as a collection of historic puppets, who are housed in Puppet Storage—the exhibition's simultaneous entry and “backstage” or unconsciousness. Some works in the show involve puppets as figures (marionettes, shadow puppets, ventriloquist dummies). In others, artists perform as puppeteers. Others still evoke such topics associated with puppetry (manipulation, miniaturization, and control). The Puppet Show is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. It is co-curated by Ingrid Schaffner, ICA Senior curator, and Carin Kuoni, Director. The exhibition runs through August 9th at Bergamot Station.