caper

This week, we learned about a presidential caper.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Comedy duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol used guerrilla filmmaking and footage they shot in the mid-aughts to create a time-travel caper about their characters’ quest to play the ultimate gig.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

A clawed caper at the Santa Monica Pier went awry despite “sophisticated” attempts by suspects to get away with poaching roughly three dozen spiny lobsters, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The snackiest expression of the theme: a loose, lemony caper relish that lives in the refrigerator waiting to improve whatever happens to cross its path.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

She told the story of a young wolf who had brought the lost girl a shank of meat, and ended the performance with a Kapu-like caper.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

Comedy capers like this usually deflate in the third act when their pleasures get punctured by unfunny gunfire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Wild king salmon topped with tomatoes, olives and capers was accessorized with a puff pastry in the shape of a cartoon fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

I had the kombu-cured Japanese hamachi with navel orange, capers, chili, and kohlrabi—bright, balanced, and just a little spicy.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

Or maybe just revelling in the Canadian capers.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

My mom started eating again, delicately picking the capers off the rice with the tines of her fork.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

"We don't have the means to pay for her studies," she explained from their home's back courtyard, where young children capered about and two rams watched from an enclosure.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Her two dogs, Emma and Bubba, capered into Speier’s sunny living and dining room, lightening the mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

Ornamental young debutantes capered about in Christian Lacroix pouf dresses.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Elvis impersonators capered all over the Nicolas Cage comedy “Honeymoon in Vegas,” part of a running shtick.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017

Oh, how they capered and hollered, shouted and hopped!

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

There’s a scene in “Don’t Worry Darling” where Harry Styles, playing a character named Jack, is shown onstage at a large raucous gathering, spinning and capering before the crowd in a frenzied solo dance.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

This ensemble piece, a communal chorus of witnessing, had a capering quality in the theater as it summoned Till back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020

He has described Flavor, with his comic-strip grin and giant clock medallion, as “a visual character with audio bonuses”: the capering hypeman in a band otherwise defined by stony-faced gravitas.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020

Douglas’s most recent album, “Black Lion,” from last year, dealt in capering funk, briskly swinging postbop and maximalist contemporary jazz, all arranged for a sextet with a three-horn front line.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

She thought of her weary capering legs and how nice it would be to rest them.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers