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Photos: Courtesy Douglas Brake

Feature

Douglas Brake’s organic fall into children’s music

No Comments 11 June 2012

Musician Douglas Brake began making up songs to sing to his son before realizing those tunes could make an album.

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Media Review

Ladybug Girl and Bingo, by Jacky Davis and David Soman

No Comments 03 June 2012

Bingo wants to explore in the woods while the family is camping, but Ladybug Girl has the difficult job of keeping him close to camp.

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Media Review

Confessions of a Scary Mommy by Jill Smokler

No Comments 23 May 2012

Confessions of a Scary Mommy will make you feel like you’re not alone going nuts at home reading the same book for the 10th time that day.

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Media Review

Year in the Day by Gustafer Yellowgold

No Comments 20 May 2012

In the fifth installment of Gustafer Yellowgold’s journey, the yellow cartoonish character is celebrating a year’s worth of Earth holidays. Year in the Day has the former sun resident who lives in the Minnesota woodland celebrating a year’s worth of Earth holidays by creating his own traditions. Morgan Taylor created Gustafer Yellowgold in 2005 and […]

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Media Review

Delicious, by Orange Sherbet

No Comments 10 May 2012

It’s a musical feast from Orange Sherbet.

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Atomic Family, Feature

The Palladinos

3 Comments 02 April 2012

Kirsten Ott Palladino and her wife, Maria Palladino, became the moms of twins about a year ago. Their lives have changed more than they imagined … in good ways.

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Feature, Mama Rules

Box it out

No Comments 02 April 2012

Tough mamas hop in the ring for charity.

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Dining Out, Feature

Chow down, baby

2 Comments 02 April 2012

Find something for everyone’s palate at The Real Chow Baby.

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Feature

Just click ‘No’

No Comments 15 March 2012

As a young mother, I once made a list of what I called “The Ten Commandments of Parenting.” I’m not proud of this fact; it just shows how desperate I was for guidance. If I could distill the thousands of parenting decisions I had to make each day into a manageable number of principles, I […]

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Feature

Gettin’ spooky

Netherworld's Bill Johnson creates characters to scare the bejesus outta ya

No Comments 01 September 2011

Bill Johnson isn’t afraid of the dark. He makes the dark scary. As one of the top designers of frightening characters for Netherworld Haunted House, Johnson creates characters who are bloody, mangled, gory – just plain scary. And each year, because the characters and themes change annually, he gets to create something new. Werewolves and […]

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Hump Day Humor

She’s not the boss of me!

At least that’s what I keep telling myself

No Comments 01 September 2010

I have been a parent for about five-and-a-half years now, which if you crunch the numbers, comes out to be about only 5.8 percent of my life. And as a gumshoe-level parent, I sometimes cling to made-up truths about child-rearing in order to feel like I have the stamina to make it through a particularly […]

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Media Review

In a Big Warehouse, by Imagination Movers

No Comments 01 September 2010

This is not like other Disney CDs we have in our collection. The Imagination Movers pull from the influences of their teenage years: “old funk, new wave, cool grooves, a little bit of punky stuff, Big Country.” So this is stuff parents won’t mind listening to. You may even catch yourself singing along, with or […]

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