And Australian audiences face their own challenge: should they snap up tickets to the original production, which ends March 27 at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre? Or take a spell and wait for the reimagined debut in May? Over a steak frites at SoHo’s popular Balthazar’s, the show’s producer Colin Callender (a former HBO executive who began […]

Any fan of the Harry Potter movies can recall the iconic scene where he is introduced to his first chocolate frog. Unfortunately, it jumps out the train window before he can taste it, but the real focal point is the included trading card. All at once, Harry is introduced to wizarding candy, a hobby, moving […]

Until this time, King had largely addressed the environmental crisis as a series of single issues: palm oil, animal rights, poverty. After a time, however, he realised that the common causal factor behind most of these challenges was food. The world’s insatiable craving for protein had created industrial animal agriculture, a behemoth whose byproducts included […]

Melbourne is high on the list of cities in talks to host a production of one of Broadway’s newest and most controversial shows: MJ the Musical, a jukebox stuffed with talent and hits, but empty of references to dead superstar Michael Jackson’s history of child sexual abuse allegations. Myles Frost on stage during the MJ […]

The Broadway actor who played Harry Potter in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” has been fired following a complaint about his conduct lodged by a co-star last year. The show’s producers made the announcement Sunday night without specifying the allegations made against actor James Snyder. A female co-star made the claims last November, prompting […]

“Harry Potter” films as Ron Weasley, Rupert Grint says J.K. Rowling has become like a family member to him — though perhaps a problematic one. During an interview with The Times published Saturday, Grint, 33, likened Rowling, 56, to an “auntie.” “I don’t necessarily agree with everything my auntie says, but she’s still my auntie. It’s a tricky one,” […]

Amanda and Jenn discuss romantic power dynamics, Only Murders in the Building read-alikes, the Amish, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles (rec’d by Stephanie) The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (rec’d by […]

Harry Potter is a franchise beloved by fans all around the globe. Beyond the original series of books written by J.K. Rowling and the movies, there have been multiple spin-offs as well. There was even a two-part play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which premiered in 2016. Notable, however, was the polarising reception from […]

How cool would it be if you could instruct your iPhone with Harry Potter commands and it responds! Cool, right? Turns out that you can do the same and your iPhone obeys you like the magic at Hogwarts. And all you need to make it happen is invoke the humble Siri. On an iPhone running […]

With help from machine learning software, computer scientists may have unmasked the identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement. In a sprawling report published on Saturday, The New York Times shared the findings of two independent teams of forensic linguists who claim they’ve identified Paul Furber, a South African software developer who was […]