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The Easy Dozen – 12 Simple Sunday Dinner Recipes for the Family

Sunday night. It’s the last chance for a nice family dinner together before the chaos of another work week begins. Dinners during the week are always crazy, and I imagine they’re like that for everyone. Parents working late. Kids having all sorts of sports or after school activities. Religious school. You get the picture. Having a nice, quiet dinner with the entire family somehow seems like an impossibility these days. That’s why the weekends are …

Free Pirate Fairy Coloring Pages and Activity Sheets #PirateFairy

by Andrew Kardon

pirate fairy activity pages #PirateFairy

To help get your little ones geared up for next week’s release of Disney’s The Pirate Fairy, we’ve got another great Activity Packet, chock full of Pirate Fairy coloring pages, mazes, games and more! Download the Pirate Fairy Activity pack (PDF), print it out and get coloring! Think you can remember to stay within the lines this time, though? If you missed my interview with the women who put this fantastic new animated movie together, read …

Meet Bret McKenzie, the Man Behind the Muppet Music #MuppetsMostWantedEvent

by Andrew Kardon

The Muppets just wouldn’t be the Muppets without music. Singing and dancing is what made them so popular in the first place, so it goes without saying, that their latest movie Muppets Most Wanted is chock full of all-new terriffic toe-tapping tunes! Muppet Music Master Bret McKenzie is back in the conductor’s chair this go round. His work on 2011’s The Muppets was so inspirational and celebrational that Bret actually won an Oscar for his …

Tink and Friends Hit the High Seas for Adventure in Disney’s Newest Animated Film The Pirate Fairy #PirateFairy

by Andrew Kardon

What I’m about to say may shock you. It may rock you to the core. No, I’m not about to say anything nice about the Boston Red Sox, calm down. What I am going to say is that I recently watched my very first Disney Fairy movie. And… well, I liked it. I’ll save a full review for later, but on my recent Disney Cross-Country Blogging Adventure (a.k.a. #MuppetsMostWantedEvent), myself and two dozen bloggers hit …

I Found Myself in ‘The Middle’ of a Fantastic Set Visit

by Andrew Kardon

#TheMiddle Heck House Set Visit #ABCTVEvent

The Brady Bunch they’re not. On the other hand, they’re slightly less dysfunctional than The Simpsons, so they’ve got that going for them. I’m talking about The Heck Family, stars of ABC’s “The Middle.” Starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn as parents Frankie and Mike Heck living in Orson, Indiana, this modern-family sitcom is a humorous slice of life as these two try to successfully raise their three kids (Axl, Sue and Brick) without killing …