Parents spend a lot of time watching children’s television. Details writers spend a lot of time watching hot actresses. Who knew the two would one day come together?

Turns out Details think dads are doing a little bit of double duty these days. Continue reading »

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Sometimes you have to just lay down and take one for the team. That’s what I was expecting when I agreed to take my daughter to the Imagination Movers concert for Babble.

To say I was pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. Who knew a bunch of guys on a Disney Channel show for the toddler set could actually rock? As an hair flying, mid-air jumping, air guitar strumming, long drum solos and hard guitar riffs rock? Continue reading »

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If anyone can knock the Wiggles off your tot’s TV rotation, it’s the Imagination Movers – four dads from New Orleans who solve idea emergencies on the Disney Channel.

The show grabbed a Daytime Emmy out of the starting gate for outstanding original song in the children’s show/animation category – and now the Movers are going back on the road for a forty-city concert tour.

We grabbed Imagination Mover Scott Durbin, father of two and former award-winning teacher in the Movers’ hometown of New Orleans, to talk about rocking out, raising kids who’ve been through Katrina and why standards-based education doesn’t work for America’s kids: Continue reading »

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If the names Rich, Scott, Smitty and Dave don’t mean much to you, you’re probably one of those virtuous parents who don’t let their kids watch the Disney Channel. If you do, though, you know those names are stitched on the bright blue and red coveralls of the Imagination Movers.

Disney Channel airs their show, which reminds me of nothing so much as the Monkees crossed with Scooby-Doo with a dash of the Wiggles, every morning. Their second CD, “For Those About To Hop” comes out soon, and the nice people at Disney Records sent me a review copy. If you watch the show, most of the songs will already be familiar. Only one or two are ones I haven’t heard before.

While they come across really well as part of the narrative on the show, Continue reading »

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