Oh, no–somebody stole Pee-wee Herman’s nifty art deco bicycle!

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn -- Coney Island had its first Pee-wee Herman universe look-alike contest, and it lived up to the billing. Adam Rinn, artistic director at the arts organization Coney Island USA, ...

From a boy without a bike in the 1980s to a 21st-century Netflix superstar, Pee-wee Herman was the world’s best-loved manchild. Traveler, inventor, farmer, singer… Pee-wee did it all! But how did he ...

Other contenders in the category included 'Deaf President Now!,' 'Martha,' 'Pee-wee As Himself,' 'Sly Lives!' and 'Will & Harper' Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE, where she contributes in ...

This story is part of our Best Things in Texas package, which appeared in the December 2025 issue. For the last year or so I was busy with an unusual project: writing the interpretive panels for the ...

For those of us who were sitting around the television in 1988, Christmas at Pee Wee’s Playhouse was certainly unlike anything that we had ever seen. That year, holiday specials ran rampant over ...