For as long as girls have floated on their daddies' shoes, the elusive Happily Ever After has been a perennial must-have. When should, or can, we learn that bliss is only tangentially connected to some swept-off-your-feet love?
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.14.2012
A neighbor once came knocking with daughter it tow, asking mom if said daughter could come in and watch my dad write a song. Mom explained, "He does most of his writing on the john."
Posted 04.26.2012
Could there be any cuter a combination than Christian Louboutin and Disney? In what's probably going to be our favorite designer collaboration of t...
Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 05.01.2012
The bad mother-daughter bond is an old familiar story. And I mean old. Throughout narrative history, mother characters have been evil or dead or both.
Posted 02.06.2012
Not since Kanye West have we seen such a beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy. Thomas Czarnecki's photography collection 'From Enchantment to Down' portra...
mendotaheights.patch.com | Posted 02.03.2012
The Ordway's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" partnered with Mendota Heights nonprofit Operation Glass Slipper this winter to prov...
Posted 01.19.2012
Donating hair to charity just took a whole new spin -- on ice. Disney On Ice's "Dare To Dream" show gave free tickets in exchange for a hair donati...
Mike Sweeney | Posted 09.18.2011
I don't tend to go around quoting glam metal power ballads, but Cinderella's 1988 hit single had it right. The video for the song was filmed at Mono Lake, which will close next summer due to budget cuts.
Posted 08.23.2011
Generations of children have grown up listening and singing them, imagining their prince charming is coming (or that they'll find that princess in dis...
Posted 08.23.2011
Can't decide which of the endless classic Disney songs you should listen to? How about taking a chord from each one! Quite literally, one chord. ...
Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway remarks, "You can't repeat the past." To which Jay Gatsby replied, "You can't repeat the past? Why of course, you can."
Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2011
The truth is that what I will miss is the innocence that Barney represents in my daughter's life. As I read the Cinderella book to her over and over each day, I try to decide what she's actually learning.
Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011
Just like in Cinderella, the spell cast on Lindsay Lohan by the evil judge ended at midnight. After all, she got her start in a Disney movie.
Susan Orlins | Posted 11.17.2011
For many families, the back-to-school rumpus is less than a month away. So why not use these last weeks of summer to combine family togetherness with ...
Aida Alami | Posted 11.17.2011
Cinderella, Snow White, and the others fed my little head with dreams that are very far from reality. You might not believe me but I am actually happy they did.
Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011
"The Cinderella Principle" comes to life in San Francisco this week via the Robert Moses Kin contemporary dance company, a visually delicious beast that never comes short of dazzling the senses.
Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011
What did this extraordinary company do at the Music Center Pavilion? You guessed right: it put away one-act connoisseur feasts and brought out the bread and butter: Sir Frederick Ashton's Cinderella
Suz Redfearn | Posted 05.25.2011
We are headed to Disney World in a matter of days, and we are not going to have our two year old's first trip to the Magic Kingdom suck because she doesn't have a clue who Mickey and Minnie are.
Rachel Thebault | Posted 05.25.2011
Disney World is like giving birth. It's a really painful experience, but you have to do it once for your kids. But it has a lot in common with one of my favorite places to visit -- Las Vegas.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
If there's one dominant theme that came out of Selection Sunday it's that the N.C.A.A. tournament is becoming more like the B.C.S. -- an insider's clu...
Jeanine Celeste Pang | Posted 05.28.2012