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Fairy tales for a super moon

The biggest and boldest full moon of 2012 arrives Tonight at 11:35 p.m. in Pittsburgh, when the earth's closest celestial body crosses nearest...
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The classic portrayal of the stepmother is wicked-ly false

Disney fairytales, folklore, and classic literature are a memorable part of childhood and they falsely portray the stepmothers as wicked. Snow...
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If you're lost, head "True North" to find your way

If the Golden Globes weren’t your thing, chances are you caught this week’s episode of Once Upon a Time, True North. Either that or you...
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Hope, fear and magic: Metropolitan Opera’s Hansel and Gretel coming to Salt Lake

Fairy tales outlast childhood, cropping up in movies and parodies and modernizations and living no matter how much we tell ourselves we don’t...
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The Met: Live in HD, is coming to a theatre near you

You don't have to live in New York to enjoy The Metropolitan Opera. This Christmas season, enjoy two famous operas right here in Broward and...
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Sweetly by Jackson Pearce

The gist: A modern day retelling of Hansel and Gretel, who had another sister until she got eaten by the witch. Also throw in some Big Bad Wolf and...
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Children’s Concerts in Toronto

Barney is coming! And the creepy green one too! Before that it was Yo Gabba Gabba! As with the grown-up music scene, Toronto has concerts happening...
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Part 3: 'Sweetly' is an intense 'Hansel and Gretel' retelling with many monsters

Pearce even hints at her upcoming companion novel to Sweetly, Fathomless, by mentioning mermaids, the “kindred evils” related tothe...
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Part 2: 'Sweetly' is an intense 'Hansel and Gretel' retelling with many monsters

However, while in Sisters Red the main characters mostly dealt with the Fenris in gory fights, Sweetly has something new in store: a witch. Not the...
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Part 1: 'Sweetly' is an intense 'Hansel and Gretel' retelling with many monsters

It is already a fact that fairy tales are the most popular choice of published work for writers to retell and re-create in their own short stories...
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