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The Little Mermaid

All Hail Princess Leia

Cara McDonough | Posted 04.23.2013 | Parents
Read More: Star Wars, Princess Leia, Girls, Fairy Tales, Carrie Fisher, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess and the Frog, Disney Princesses, Princesses, Princess Culture, Parents-Toddlers, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Cara McDonough

I've adapted to the presence of princesses in my life, explaining wisely to other moms, "Oh, the princess stuff? I don't mind it. It's actually kind of fun."

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The Tragic AIDS Death Behind Your Favorite Disney Love Songs

VICE | Mitchell Sunderland | Posted 03.30.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Walt Disney, Disney Animation, Walt Disney Company, Hiv, Howard Ashman, Disney, The Little Mermaid, Disney Classic TV, Howard Ashman AIDS, Gay Voices News

The first week of November 1989, filmmakers and executives from the Walt Disney Company gathered in a crowded room in Disney World in Orlando, Florida...

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The New "Sexy," Macklemore as the New Prince Charming, and It Ain't That Cool to Be a Gangster

Amanda Slavin | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Prince Charming, Women, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Beauty and the Beast, Sxsw 2013, Media, Pandora, Disney, The Little Mermaid, Macklemore, Sxsw, Rap Music, Entertainment News
Amanda Slavin

I have always been one to pay attention to lyrics. I have always gushed over a good song, which changes your perspective of your world and of yourself. But this is more than just gushing.

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'The Problem With Love At First Sight'

| Posted 02.13.2013 | Teen
Read More: Finding Love, Fairy Tales, Disney Love Stories, Cinderella, Love Stories, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Disney Princesses, Love at First Sight, Teen News

This is a teen-written article from our friends at Teenink.com. By globalconcepts, Blue Bell, PA Like many young, naïve youth, I spent most of ...

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Bad News For 'The Little Mermaid'

Posted 01.15.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Disney Little Mermaid, Little Mermaid, The Little Mermaid Disney, Video, Little Mermaid 3D, Little Mermaid Disney, Disney, The Little Mermaid, The Little Mermaid 3D, Entertainment News

"The Little Mermaid 3D" is swimming with the fishes. According to The Los Angeles Times, Disney has canceled plans to rerelease the 1989 animated clas...

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From Stage to Screen and Then Back Again

George Heymont | Posted 01.14.2013 | Arts
Read More: Tim Rice, Tarzan, Hope Briggs, Father of the Bride, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, The Sound of Music, Timothy Kniffin, Tryphena Wade, Mark David Kaplan, Garth Fagan, Berkeley Playhouse, Ben Lipitz, Buyi Zama, Elizabeth McKoy, Mary Martin, Beauty and the Beast, Elton John, Newsies, Mary Poppins, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Oscar Hammerstein II, Nick Cordileone, The Lion King, Derek Smith, Victoria and Albert Museum, Disney Theatrical Productions, Maria Von Trapp, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Sharon Rietkirk, Syndee Winters, Freaky Friday, Julie Taymor, Jelani Remy, Dionne Randolph, Richard Rodgers, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

In recent decades, movie musicals that began as full-length animation features and original movie musicals have become multi-million dollar stage vehicles drawing audiences into theatres in cities around the world.

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WATCH: Dads Sing Disney Classic

Posted 10.09.2012 | Parents
Read More: Dads Sing Part of Your World, Life of Dad, Part of Your World, Dads and Daughters, Youtube Vieos, Funny Dad Videos, The Little Mermaid, Disney, Lifeofdad, Ariel, Video, Parents News

Disney princess Ariel longed for legs to jump and dance as part of our world -- and she would likely have been fascinated by this video of landlubber ...

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WATCH: Disney Princesses Get A Whole New Look

Christina Huffington | Posted 11.27.2012 | Women
Read More: Video, Youtube Musical, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Musicals, Hipsters, Disney, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Disney Princesses, Women News

Snow White drinking kombucha tea? The Little Mermaid sporting an organic bra? Meet the hipster Disney princesses. In a new musical video, Snow White, ...

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Last Chance to Be Enchanted by 'Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom' at Don't Tell Mama

Myra Chanin | Posted 09.17.2012 | New York
Read More: Sleeping Beauty, Dennis T. Giacino, Belle and the Beast, Mulan, Bitches of the Kingdom, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Cindarella, Disenchanted, New York News
Myra Chanin

It was in the Major Cabaret Room at Don't Tell Mama that last week I stumbled into Disenchanted a.k.a. Bitches of the Kingdom, about peeved Disney princesses like Snow White, Cinderella, Belle, and Sleeping Beauty.

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Why My Kids Will Not Be Watching The Little Mermaid

Hilary Sheinbaum | Posted 09.22.2012 | Parents
Read More: Role Models, The Little Mermaid, Disney, Movies, Disney Movies, Disney's the Little Mermaid, Britney Spears, Disney Princesses, Ariel, Parents News
Hilary Sheinbaum

Years before Miley Cyrus couldn't be tamed, there was a different Disney princess who stirred up controversy for her rebellious ways.

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Disney Villains: Ursula Gets Slimmed Down For The New 'Designer Collection'

Emma Gray | Posted 08.29.2012 | Women
Read More: The Little Mermaid, Skinny Ursula, Disney Villains Designer Collection, Disney Mermaid, Disney Villains, Ursula, Ursula Slimmed Down, Ursula Diet, Disney the Little Mermaid, Ariel the Little Mermaid, Disney Ursula, Slideexpand, Women News
Emma Gray

It seems that Ursula, Ariel's nemesis in "The Little Mermaid," has lost her curves. The once full-figured character has been transformed into a much smaller version of herself for a new Disney Villains Designer Collection of figurines and beauty products.

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Fishing Expeditions

George Heymont | Posted 08.03.2012 | Arts
Read More: Film, Cory Shiozaki, Pinocchio, Manzanar, Moby-Dick, Julia Pott, Ken Burns, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Richard Imamura, Shark Attack III: Megalodon, Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, Finding Nemo, The Little Mermaid, The Manzanar Fishing Club, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

From ancient tales of the lost city of Atlantis to Jules Verne's 1870 classic, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, life under the sea has been a never-ending source of fear and fantasy.

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David Moye

WATCH: Mermaid Gives Birth

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 05.26.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Cryptozoology, Mermaid Sex, Video, Charlie Foley, Weird Science, Are Mermaids Real, Mermaids: The Body Found, Animal Planet, Slideexpand, Animals in the News, Weird Photos & Videos, Mermaids, The Little Mermaid, Ariel, Weird News News

The mermaid legend has been around since before the Romans ruled the earth, and even back then, guys were asking the same question: How did these woma...

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A Different 'Little Mermaid'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.26.2012 | Arts
Read More: The Little Mermaid, Women, Video, Mark Moore Gallery, Hans Christian Andersen, Impasto, Salty Air, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Painting, Ariel, Allison Schulnik, Arts News

Mark Moore Gallery describes Allison Schulnik's paintings as "distinctively textured," which may be the understatement of the year. Schulnik's painted...

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Puff, the Magic Relationship

Meredith Fineman | Posted 07.17.2012 | Women
Read More: Fifty First Jdates, Prince Charming, Gotye, Relationships, The Olsen Twins, Princess, 50 Shades of Grey, Two Broke Girls, Meredith Fineman, Magic, Etsy, The Little Mermaid, Theffjd, Romance, Dating, Disney Movies, Twilight, HUnger Games, Love, Christian Louboutin, Women News
Meredith Fineman

Are you expecting to board the platform 9 3/4 Train to Boyfriendland, where everyone looks like Javier Bardem and they're waiting for your arrival holding three bags of Louboutins and a puppy?

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The ‘Wrinkle In Time’ Effect: Which Book Heroine Did You Want To Be?

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 04.17.2012 | Women
Read More: Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Pamela Paul, Jane Eyre, Books We Love, Lizzie Skurnick, Wuthering Heights, Slidepollajax, Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, Shelf Discovery, The Little Mermaid, Valley of the Dolls, Women News
Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Whether you fell asleep at night clutching a copy of Ramona Quimby or Gone With The Wind, the books we read as kids shape the women we become -- sometimes in complicated ways.

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'Why I Hate Snow White'

| MissMaegan, Port St. Lucie, FL | Posted 11.15.2011 | Home
Read More: Kristen Stewart, High School Opinion, The Little Mermaid, Snow White and the Huntsmen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderalla, Mulan, Grimm Fairy Tales, Disney, Teen Opinion, Teen Ink, Video, Home News

This is a teen-written article from our friends at Teenink.com. And so the story ends. The dashing prince in his tasseled, shoulder-padded suit ben...

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PHOTOS: Disney Princesses As Real-Life Humans

www.themarysue.com | Posted 12.23.2011 | Home
Read More: The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Disney Princesses, Fun Stuff, Beauty and the Beast, Disney Art, Disney Movies, Home News

Jirka Vaatainen is a graphic design student at the Arts University College at Bournemouth in the UK, and he's come up with some really interesting int...

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'Beauty & The Beast' Coming Back To Theaters In 3D!

Posted 12.04.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Lion King, Finding Nemo, Video, Monsters Inc, Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast Rerelease, The Little Mermaid, Lion King 3d, Beauty and the Beast 3D, Movies, Entertainment News

It was supposed to be a limited-run promotion for its special edition BluRay release, but the 3D rerelease of "The Lion King" has roared mightily, asc...

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Just For Fun: A History of Mermaids In Pop Culture

TresSugar | Posted 08.27.2011 | Women
Read More: A History of Mermaids, Mermaid Parade, Mermaid Folklore, Coney Island Mermaid Parade, Mermaids in Pop Culture, Hans Christian Andersen, Mermaids in Art, Madison in Splash, Zoolander, Weeki Wachee Springs Mermaids, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid, The Little Mermaid, Mermaids, Darling Mermaid Darlings, Women News

Maybe it's the Summer beach weather, the new Little Mermaid ride opening at Disneyland, or the fact that the Coney Island Mermaid Parade took place la...

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Is This The Ultimate Disney Song?

Posted 08.23.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Aladdin, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Disney Songs, Disney Princesses, Disney, The Little Mermaid, Movies, Video, Entertainment News

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. ...

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10 Famous Destroyed Works Of Art

businessinsider.com | ArtDaily | Posted 07.18.2011 | Arts
Read More: Diego Velazquez, Business Insider, Marcel Duchamp, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Night Watch, The Little Mermaid, Destroyed, Le Reve, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Edvard Eriksen, Art, Pieta, Rokeby Venus, The Actor, Portland Vase, Pablo Picasso, Fountain, Danae, Arts News

The most impressive works of art often took months or even years to complete. Artists pour their knowledge, creativity and emotions into their proj...

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Down from the Tower: Byron Howard and Nathan Greno on Tangled

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.30.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Walt Disney, Byron Howard, Glen Keane, Rapunzel, The Brothers Grimm, The Little Mermaid, Nathan Greno, Tangled, Animation, Entertainment News
Dan Lybarger

If Tangled varies from the Disney formula, it might be in the way that her rescuer is not a blandly handsome prince but a dashing if sometimes bumbling thief named Flynn Ryder (Zachary Levi, Chuck).

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What's Up for January From Kids Off the Couch

Sarah Bowman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Activities in LA for Kids, Art, Kids Off the Couch, Family, The Bowers Museum, The Hammer Museum, The Little Mermaid, Ben Franklin, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Los Angeles News
Sarah Bowman

Our New Year's resolution is to put a little more tiger into our Western tank of parenting... just as soon as we recover from another weekend of sports games and sleepovers.

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Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Vampire Diaries, April Johnston, Project Runway, My Fair Lady, Nina Garcia, Rubbernecking, Adam Ant, The Little Mermaid, Rainbow Brite, Ivy Higa, Andy South, January Jones, Michael Kors, Michael Drummond, Breakfast at Tiffany?S, Gretchen Jones, Tim Gunn, Fashion, Michael Costello, Christopher Collins, Naeem Khan, Michelle Obama, Peach Carr, Santino Rice, Jackie O, Valerie Mayen, Heidi Klum, Collier Strong, Style News, Fashion Week, Marie Claire Magazine, Gone With the Wind, Audrey Hepburn, Reality TV, Competition, Mad Men, Lifetime TV, Scarlett O?Hara, L?Oreal Paris, Joni Mitchell, Lady GaGa, Mondo Guerra, Sewing, Merchant Ivory, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

As we rejoin the remaining eight, Gretchen shares that not having Michael D there makes it feel more like a competition, as he was well-liked.

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