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Being a professional mermaid is about so much more than just flipping your fins. Although ordinarily the stuff of fantasy — and blockbuster Disney movies — being a real-life mermaid or merman is ...

The writer-director reflects on his short film’s unlikely rise through the festival circuit, the challenge of creating a ...

Time to mark a legend-ary occasion—March 29 is International Mermaid Day! Apparently, the cable network Freeform founded the annual holiday in 2017 to celebrate the launch of its TV show Siren. The ...

What started out as a pun has become a worldwide art challenge beloved by countless illustrators. This is MerMay, the monthlong art challenge in which artists are invited to create a work depicting a ...

Jack Laflin likes to recall the time he wriggled into a 9-foot-long, 30-pound blue mermaid tail. He’d spotted similar pieces behind the scenes of the acting gigs he was trying to land, but this was ...

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” The line springs from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” and it also graces the opening moments of Disney’s latest ...