Category: Sites Scenes & Words

  • DeSantis Asks Florida Authorities to Investigate Disney World Board

    The New York Times – Business:

    The governor sent a letter to the state inspector general regarding Disney’s efforts to limit state oversight of its theme park resort.

  • DeSantis’s Oversight Board Said Disney Stripped It of Its Power

    The New York Times – Business:

    The Florida governor’s new Disney World oversight board belatedly realized that the company had quietly sidestepped its control.

  • Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land

    The New York Times – Travel:

    What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?

  • DeSantis Gains Control of Tax Board Overseeing Disney World

    The New York Times – Business:

    The Florida governor had wanted to abolish the resort’s designation as a special tax district. That would have left two counties paying for services like policing.

  • Disney World Workers Reject Contract Offer

    The New York Times – Business:

    Unions that represent about 32,000 full-time workers said the vote was overwhelmingly against the proposal, which have raised pay by at least $1 an hour per year.

  • Disney’s Splash Mountain Closed. Now Superfans Are Selling the Water.

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Jars and bags of what sellers claim is water from the popular Florida attraction are being offered for sale online. The odd farewell comes as Disney takes steps to erase the ride’s racist back story.

  • Disney Revises Pricing Policies at Its Parks

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Ticket prices won’t exactly be less, but the cost of some activities and perks will be adjusted, after complaints about the cost of visits.

  • Alberto Zamperla, Amusement Park Impresario, Is Dead at 71

    The New York Times – Travel:

    His family-friendly company revived historic Luna Park in Coney Island and built attractions for Disney and Six Flags.

  • Christmas at Dollywood, With Streetmosphere and a Chicken Lady

    The New York Times – Music:

    Dolly Parton’s theme park gets into the holiday spirit in a way that rivals Radio City’s Rockettes — with fewer kicklines but far more fingerpicking.

  • Stroll to the Polls Georgia Youth Voter Cuff It Challenge!

    Just in time for the runoff election in Georgia, Stroll to the Polls is relaunching its 2022 Voter Cuff It Challenge.  This time around Stroll to the Polls seeks to encourage youth voter participation during the Georgia 2022 runoff election.

    To join the challenge, Georgia voters should:

    • From 11/26/22 through 12/6/22, go to your polling place with your voting buddies;
    • VOTE in the Georgia Runoff Election;
    • Get an “I Voted” sticker;
    • Using Kaitlyn & Maycee’s dance moves, Cuff It with your voting buddies near your polling place;
    • Post your video to Instagram or Facebook
    • Tag: @StrollToThePolls, @kaitlynhardy_ and @mayceesteele
    • Hashtag: #StrollToThePolls #VoterCuffIt #CuffItChallenge #CuffItSeason #CuffIt #GeorgiaRunoff #GARunoff

    The Stroll to the Polls Georgia Youth Voter Challenge is sponsored by MOSAEC.

  • After Swift Return, Iger Faces Disney’s Long-Term Challenges

    The New York Times – Business:

    Robert A. Iger had been gone from the company for less than a year, but he returns to a very different Disney.

  • Bog Iger’s Return to Disney Shocks a Discontented Kingdom

    The New York Times – Business:

    After Bob Chapek, the departing chief executive, tried to put a sunny spin on a disastrous earnings report this month, senior Disney leaders began talking about resigning.