Disney on Ice TSB Bank Arena, Wellington, May 15 Standing in a queue at the TSB Bank Arena for ice creams before opening night for Disney on Ice I overheard a frazzled-looking gentleman in front of me joke out loud in desperation: ‘‘I’ll have six beers please’’. It summed up the contrast between many of the children – unrestrained excitement, some of the girls in Disney princess costumes – and foreboding by parents that it would be another show where they would be bored and try to surreptitiously browse the internet on their smart phones until it was over.
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Hard work to create magic on ice
Grab your tiara, and open your imagination because everyone’s favourite fairy-tale characters are about to ice skate their way to life. Disney on Ice Princesses & Heroes is in New Zealand to perform in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland over the next three weeks
Missing Tourist in Iceland Joins Search for Herself
A missing tour bus passenger in remote southern Iceland ended up joining her own search party last weekend without realizing the search teams were in fact looking for her, according to a report. According to the Iceland Review, which cited the website mbl.is (site in Icelandic), a bus driver in the volcanic canyon Eldgjá reported a foreign tourist missing […]
Endangered Species: In More Danger
Environmentalism is synonymous with loss.
No Double Dip: Ice Cream Sales Up Despite Recession
The Benito Belly Buster is back. The Royal Scoop Homemade Ice Cream shop in Benito Springs, Fla., took the 15-scoop, six-topping, three-bananas-and-a-mound-of-whipped-cream mega-dessert off its menu five years ago after orders dwindled
Ice skating bear kills Russian circus hand
A bear on ice skates attacked two people during rehearsals at a circus in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, killing one of them, Kyrgyz officials said Friday.
Greenland’s frozen landscape warming up
My taxi driver is telling me about his meal last night. His name is William.