What a week it has been for the city of Indianola. Des Moines Metro Opera closed their 2019 season, RAGBRAI has been through town, the county fair has started, and we are preparing for the National ...

I was only 10 years old at the time that Disney released The Hunchback of Notre Dame in movies theaters on June 21, 1996, but I remember going with my older sister and my little cousin to see the ...

By chance, Phoebus has already come to the aid of a Gypsy woman, Esmeralda, from Frollo’s brutish city guards. Sneaking off to enjoy himself, Quasimodo is discovered, and crowned the King of Fools and ...

Disney has been adapting famous fairy tales into beloved animated films for decades, but not all its movies are based on ...

The cast of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" performs "Olim" during a dress rehearsal at Harbor Playhouse in Corpus Christi, Texas, on May 13, 2026. (John Oliva/Caller-Times) While Harbor Playhouse's ...

Struggles with appearance never seemed to be an issue for traditional Disney princesses. Their issues were more with external antagonists: evil stepmothers, wicked witches and war-waging villains. The ...

The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be "Out There," observes all of Paris ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...