Fairy Tales

The Princess and the Power: A Fairy Tale for Modern Women

Kristin Boekhoff | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Success, Career Women, Romance, Fairy Tales, Femininity, Career Advice, Love Story, Princess, Women News
Kristin Boekhoff

As a businesswoman, I learned to think and act like a man because to rise to the top. Now, twenty years later, successful but single at the age of 37, I no longer feel comfortable in my "female skin."

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Family Secrets Get Surreal

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Jan Van Eyck, Glass Garage Gallery, Video, Fairy Tales, Renaissance Painting, Flemish Painting, Kentucky, Surrealism, Margo Selski, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Painting, Arts News

Margo Selski's paintings -- with ball gowns made of eyes, braids of hair with agency of their own and the pointiest feet you've ever seen -- look like...

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'Open, Gates of Fairyland': Faerie Festivals of the Eastern United States

Stephen D. Winick | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Folklore, Festivals, Travel, Fairies, Entertainment, Music, Fairy Tales, Culture, Music Festivals, Renaissance Festival Pennsylvania, Renaissance Festival, Renaissance Festival Maryland, Festival, Renaissance Festival East Coast, Renaissance Festival New York, Culture News
Stephen D. Winick

If you live in the mid-Atlantic U.S., though, it's easier than ever to find sprites and sprigguns. The region is home to some of the largest and most popular faerie celebrations in the world, and faerie season is just about to begin.

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Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Cindy Sherman, Marcel Dzama, Charlie White, Kiki Smith, Mark Hosford, Saya Woolfalk, Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination, Amy Stein, Inka Essenhigh, Frist Center, Yinka Shonibare, Meghan Boody, Nashville Art, Paula Rego, Slidepollajax, Arts News

For either a child or an adult, nothing is scarier than thinking something is under the bed. Fantasy and fear begin to merge into one in the upcoming ...

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Spilled Milk: Photoshopping My Neck

William Lucas Walker | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Photoshop, Gay, Gay Parents, Neck, Parents, Spilled Milk, Fairy Tales, Bruno Bettelheim, Humor, Parents News
William Lucas Walker

Once upon a time, Daddy had a jawline.

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Parents Say Classic Fairy Tales Are Too Scary To Read To Kids (STUDY)

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Reading to Kids, Fairy Tale Tv Shows, Fairy Tales Too Scary, Parents Fairy Tales, Kids Books, Fairy Tales, Fairy Tales Inappropriate, Fairy Tale Study, Fairy Tale Movies, Bedtime Reading, Kids Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, Kids Bedtime Stories, Dark Fairy Tales, Parents News

It's no secret that classic fairy tales aren't the bright and happy stories Disney would have you believe. (The way the Brothers Grimm tell Cinderella...

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Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes

Samara Green | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Gender Stereotypes, Fairy Tales, Disney Princesses, Twilight, High School News
Samara Green

In The Little Mermaid, who provides Ariel with a shelter and future life of luxury? Prince Eric. In Cinderella, who brings her out of rags and into riches? Prince Charming.

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'Fairytale TV'

Megan Ward | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: True Blood, Once Upon a Time, The Vampire Diaries, Revenge, Vampire Tv Shows, Once Upon a Time Tv, Fairy Tales, Supernatural, Fairy-Tale Tv Shows, TV News
Megan Ward

In the past couple of years there has been an increase of supernatural and mystical themes in television, and the viewers (including myself) are eating it up at an astronomical rate.

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Sure, Sleep With Him, But Don't Expect To Change Him

Juliet Jeske | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Women, Vagina, Bad Relationships, Myths, Fairy Tales, Bad Boys, Pretty-Women, Kat Von D, Stereotypes, Jesse James, Sandra Bullock, Relationship Advice, Women News
Juliet Jeske

Sexual prowess will not convert him, your never-dying devotion will not turn him around, nothing will change the man he is fundamentally.

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WATCH: Once Upon A Time There Was A Stupid Little Girl...

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Video, Fairy Tales, Funny Videos, Flula Borg, Flula Grimm Fairy Tale, Urlesque, Flula Little Red Riding Hood, Flula German Guy, Flula Little Red Ride Hood, Flula, Crazy German Guy, Idioms, Comedy News

Flula Borg has made it clear that he doesn't get English idioms like "shooting fish in a barrel," and "the proof is in the pudding." But now he's take...

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Last Tree Down: Embracing A New Treeless World

Kisa Lala | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Spread Art Culture, Hansel and Gretel, Spread ArtCulture, If a Tree Falls, Kisa Lala, Art Meets Science, Forest, Kahn and Selesnick, Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, Park, Wilderness, Tiffany Shlain, Stuart Hall, Sleeping Beauty, New York, Fairy Tales, Environment, Alastair Mackie, Climate Change, Woodlands, Connected the Film, Home News
Kisa Lala

By Kiša Lala Landscape by Stuart Hall © Stuart Hall - A future earth without trees? © J F Rauzier - Cranach's Dream - The New Garden o...

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Are Working Girl Films A Step Forward Or Backward?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, Aline Brosh Mckenna, I Don't Know How She Does It, Fairy Tales, Happily Ever After, 27 Dresses, Having It All, Prince Charming, Work-Life Balance, The New York Times Magazine, Allison Pearson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

Do such tales represent a step forward? After all, an ambitious -- if naive -- journalist's attempts to succeed at "the job a million girls would kill for," or the story of the daily struggles that comprise a working woman's life -- well, they're infinitely more relatable than, say, Cinderella.

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10 Creepy, Sexy Fairy Tales That Should Be Films

io9.com | Oldwookiee | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Fairy Tales Films, Story Adaptations, Book Adaptations, Fairy Tales, Books News

If there's one thing we learned this past week at Comic-Con, it's that Hollywood is obsessed with fairy tales. They're magical, they've got instant re...

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WATCH: Cutest Version Of 'Jack & The Beanstalk' Ever

Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Jack and the Beanstalk, Video, Fairy Tales, Kids, Urlesque, Story Telling, Babies, Stories, Comedy News

According to Viral Viral Videos, this video of a two-year-old telling a story has gotten popular before, but it's caught a new wind in the past few da...

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The Story of the World's Strangest Romance

Mark C. Miller | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Fairy Tales, Romance, Dating, Comedy News
Mark C. Miller

Anyone who met him realized he was far from a special man. Seven hundred and twelve miles, to be exact. His voice was light, trivial. His life-long projectile phlegm problem didn't help matters.

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Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Relationship Advice, Relationships, Fairy Tales, Chicago, Dating Coach, Dating, Relationship Tips, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News
Gena Grish

I may or may not have signed my friend up for a Match.com profile without her knowledge to see the type of bites she would receive.

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The Children's Book: The Heavenly Hell of Childhood

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: England, History, E. Nesbit, Fairy Tales, Children's Books, A.S. Byatt, Literary Fiction, Politics, Art, Libraries, Writing, Open Marriage, Fiction, International Politics, Booker Prize, Abuse, Relationships, Child Abuse, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

In the life of a reader--and by a reader I mean someone who has always read for pleasure--it is doubtful that any books have as much impact, in the en...

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'Then One Foggy Christmas Eve': A Christmas Meditation

Richard J. Mouw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Christmas 2010, Christmas Myth, Christmas Meditation, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christmas Tale, Santa and Rudolph, Fairy Tales, Christmas Story, Christmas Reflection, Religion News
Richard J. Mouw

It may be that, properly understood, the Rudolph story can actually nudge us in the direction of the Babe of Bethlehem.

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Stage Door: Orlando, El Gato Con Botas, Meow Meow

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opera, Virginia Woolf, Fairy Tales, Entertainment, Theater, Meow Meow, Off-Broadway, Cabaret, New York News
Fern Siegel

Let's give it up for fantastical productions, courtesy of CSC's inspired staging of Orlando, adapted from the Virginia Woolf novel.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 4: Old Men, Young Girls, Graham Greene and Amigos

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Graham Greene, Catherine Breillat, Toronto International Film Festival, Fairy Tales, Helen Mirren, Movies, John Sayles, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Now we're talking: a five-movie day with no hiccups. Now if only we could do something about the quality of the films.

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'Twilight,' Neil Gaiman, And Why Ch

Telegraph UK | Anne Billson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Graveyard Book, Skulduggery Pleasant, Neil Gaiman, Fairy Tales, Reading, Twilight, Artemis Fowl, Books, Harry Potter, Children's Books, Stephenie Meyer, Philip Pullman, Books News

In case you hadn't noticed, there's a big streak of the supernatural running through a lot of children's fiction these days. Ghosts, vampires and skel...

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Winter Garden is Kristin Hannah's Best Book Yet

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kristin Hannah, Fairy Tales, Mother Daughter Relationships, Leningrad, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

Kristin Hannah's latest novel is one of her most compelling stories yet; it reaches deep into readers' souls for compassion and understanding. It must be read for the detail and intensity of its story.

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Fairy Tales, Child Development, And Unconscious Learning

Susan Kim | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Susan Kim, Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, Menstruation, Menarche, Psycho, Fairy Tales, Parenting, Healthy Living News
Susan Kim

Fairy tales communicate strong, unconscious messages to children in terms they can grasp. This is because these stories possess genuine resonance and dreamlike power.

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Jackson Funeral Won't Convince Followers He Is Dead

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Al Sharpton, Graceland, Papparazzi, Pied Piper, Toxicology Results, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Michael Jackson Sightings, Larry King" "Thriller, Neverland, Celebrity Icon, Tmz, Prescription Dugs, Celebrity Obsession, The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissicm Is Seducing America, The Man in the Mirror, The Glove, Harvey Levin, Childhood, Escapism, Elvis Presley, Tent City, Feneral of the Century, Celebrity Worship, Fairy Tales, Peter Pan, The Media, Santa Barbara, Youtube, Autopsies, Molestation, God-Like, Healthy Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

Since Elvis, the social pathos and obsession with celebrities has grown more than a hundred-fold, and this King of Pop will never be laid to rest or allowed to rest in peace.

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The Story of Silly George -- The King Who Believed in an Imaginary Magicfriendinthesky

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christianity, Political Satire, Free Market, God, 2008 Election, Fairy Tales, Satire, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

You see, the silly prince's brain had quit working the same way that all people's brains quit working when they decide they've found One Truth that solves everything.

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