The Fairy Princess is as much a part of the Kansas City holiday tradition as the Plaza lights, and has endured for more than 80 years. These days you can find her spreading holiday cheer at the Kansas ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The normally somber city ...

At the same time in the 1930s, Capra was creating his own whimsical dramedies like Broadway Bill (1934), It Happened One Night (1934) and You Can’t Take It with You (1938), all featuring modern ...

Esteemed fantasist J.R.R. Tolkien once said that fantasy was true literature meant to be read, and that dramatic presentations of fairy tales were nothing but intolerable misfortunes. "I have never ...

There was plenty of magical fun to go around Sunday as this year’s Fairy Princesses made their last appearance of the season. Four-year-old Lennon Kube had her picture taken with Fairy Princess ...

“Rapunzel’s” roots lie in the Italian story of “Petrosinella,” which was written by Giambattista Basile and published in 1634 — and honestly, I prefer Basile's tale. Like Rapunzel, Petrosinella is ...

Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, illus. by Christine Davenier. Little, Brown, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-18559-2 For a sparkle-loving fairy princess like Andrews and Hamilton’s Gerry, it’s no ...

One of this summer's biggest films is Angelina Jolie's Maleficent, an alternative take on Sleeping Beauty illuminating the memorable villain's humanity. Maleficent comes in the wake of this past ...

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If you are going to make an overly frenetic musical out of the Britney Spears songbook in which Betty Friedan is a fairy godmother who turns Cinderella and Snow White into feminists and Prince ...

A lifelong love for all things Disney led to Hayley Schmelzer’s novel approach to making others’ dreams come true. Schmelzer, who worked at Disney parks and resorts through the company’s college ...

What was ‘The Monkees’ episode ‘Fairy Tale’ about? “Fairy Tale” was the 16th episode of the second and last season of The Monkees. It featured the band in a story where Peter, the Peasant of Tork, is ...