Poor Barney. The plush purple-and-green Tyrannosaurus rex, beloved by toddlers, if not their parents, is having a bad year. Sales of Barney merchandise are dropping as briskly as they took off last ...

His Saturday shows at the Oakdale Theatre — three of them — sold out in just over a day, long before the rest of the schedule at the Wallingford dome went on sale. To date, the next most popular ...