Don't Miss 5 Hot Wedding Color Ideas … 10 Reasons to Love Kate Winslet… 7 Runway Fashion Trends for Spring-Summer 09 … Not dreaming of the white ball gown with the cathedral train or the big church wedding? That’s OK, especially today with all the alternative ways to make your bi...

Those who were following my short tweetfest from Downtown Disney last night probably caught my mention of the new look, and lovely scent, of Portobello. The restaurant, which sits between Pleasure Island and the Downtown Disney Marketplace, has recently completed a transformation from the old stuffy...

Disney historian Jim Korkis saw the recent post about Marceline and send a long a little more information. I think it was David Mumford and Bruce Gordon in their book, “The Nickel Tour� that first pointed out that there was architecture on Disneyland’s Main Street like the City Hall that was a...

The change that we all knew was coming has been announced. Once Disney announced that they would be offering severance packages to hundreds of Parks and Resorts Division Executives, I knew the next shoe to drop would be a further consolidation of the east and west coast management structures. Frankl...

Marketing There’s still more news coming from Disney’s American Idol Experience this week. A commercial for the attraction ran during tonight’s airing of American Idol. The tagline was “You can be part of the next Cinderella Story”, which is the same message they’...

The Walt Disney Company has announced the creation of the Disney Memorial Pausch Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University in recognition of the passion and energy Dr. Randy Pausch brought to his work at both Carnegie Mellon and Walt Disney Imagineering. Pausch is best known for his life-affirming &#...

The BBC has a great story examining how two of the most recent attractions to open at Walt Disney World point the way toward future development from Walt Disney Imagineering. Disney sees current and future generations of youth who are already so inter-mediated with video games, texting, MP3s, video ...

Frontline Cast Members at Disney’s theme parks have been feeling the pinch of the economy since last year. Where 40 or 60 hour weeks caused by the inability to hire and train enough employees were common before, these days many are having a hard time getting the 32 hours required to maintain t...

A few sundry links for your surfing pleasure tonight. DisUnplugged has a look at what Guest performers go through at the American Idol Experience. I spent most of Saturday afternoon watching the preview shows and will have a report tomorrow night sometime. Rick Munarriz at The Motley Fool looks into...

Planning a wedding in these hard economic times can’t be easy. I’m sure it’s even more difficult if you want to have the ceremony at the most magical place on earth. And yet, people continue to get married at Walt Disney World everyday. Here’s one blog I’ve been followi...