On a bright Saturday morning in November, Grogu makes his debut in the Bronx. He is buoyant—not simply in the way that balloons are literally buoyant, but also in the metaphorical sense of the word.

There’s not much Veronica Champion can’t make out of balloons. Over the past 35 years running her mainly one-woman business, Balloons by Design, she’s done it all, from making ice cream cones for San ...

Don’t call Stephanie Morace a balloon artist. She’s a balloon engineer. Shaping balloons into whatever she can imagine is artistic, but it has a lot in common with her former career as an engineer.