Harry Potter

Neither Snow Nor Rain nor ... Oh, Screw It. The Post Office is a Dead Letter

Magic in the Interim

Frisky Business

In a summer stocked with major musicals, add How to Succeed in Business ... , Little Shop and Victor/Victoria.

Do It For Dumbledore

In a summer stocked with major musicals, add How to Succeed in Business ... , Little Shop and Victor/Victoria.

This Weekend: Mardi Gras Revelry and, Oh Yeah, Free Beer

It's a good thing Ash Wednesday is next week, because you're going to need to do a lot of repenting after this weekend. You've got an excuse to indulge in gumbo, King Cake and plenty of beer because it's Mardi Gras, so go ahead and sin a little. You can ask for forgiveness next week, if you're int ... More >>

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: The kids are definitely not all right.

It's a good thing Ash Wednesday is next week, because you're going to need to do a lot of repenting after this weekend. You've got an excuse to indulge in gumbo, King Cake and plenty of beer because it's Mardi Gras, so go ahead and sin a little. You can ask for forgiveness next week, if you're int ... More >>

Six Epic Songs That Would Make Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows More Epic

"Annddd I Woullld Doo Annyything for Love..."​To answer a question that may be gurgling in your mind: Yes, we are big Harry Potter fans. After the movies' scope became somehow more massive after Prisoner of Azkaban (and proceeded to assuage the loss we felt post-LOTR), we just couldn't help but be ... More >>

Captain Kirk and Doc Brown Are Coming to Town. And to the List, Add Draco Malfoy.

​A Friend of Unfair Park who knows where to find me October 23 -- the Plano Center -- suggests I think again. Because, see, I had plans to take the 7-year-old who lives in my house to meet and greet one William Shatner, who's been booked for months to appear at the Star Trek Fan Days event. Also o ... More >>

15 Albums on Harry Potter's iPod

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

Not All Bullies Are Mexican And Vice Versa

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

Uptown Players' Revival of Equus a Rough Ride: Circle Theatre's Opus Goes Full Gallop

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

Horse Play

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

Our Three Critics Each Pick Their Three Favorite Films Of The Decade--And Surprise, There's Not A Sequel Or A Prequel In The Bunch

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

Spreading the Word

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

Monkeying Around With A Vampire

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

We're Off to See the Wizard

An artist's rendering of Harry, jamming to Travis​So, we found Harry Potter's iPod. We know it was Harry's because it had smoke burns on the wheel, and the back featured an engraved lightning bolt. We found the device, and a set of headphones, when we were taking a walk in a dark forest. There it ... More >>

Mirror, Mirror

Take the kids to a Lewis Carroll classic

The New Wasteland, Or Why Doesn't Time Equal Money

Saturday night I tried to elbow my way into Neighborhood Services, the new Nick Badovinus destination.Tried is the key word--staff members promised a wait of up to three hours for a table and well-heeled types already mobbed the bar area, obviously willing to watch the evening slip away in a sea of ... More >>

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should ... More >>

Portus 2008, Not Nearly As Exciting as a Good Match of Quidditch

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should ... More >>

If This Is What Day One of Harry Potter Con at the Anatole Looks Like ...

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should ... More >>

Your Portal to Portus: Or, Is It "Potterheads" or "Potterphiles"?

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should ... More >>

Next Month, You Can Get Muggled at the Huge Harry Potter "Symposium"

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should ... More >>

Symphonic Spells

The DSO maestro raises a magical wand

Pink Magic

Gay Bingo puts a spell on the Lakewood

A Harried Evening

Gay Bingo puts a spell on the Lakewood

A Harry Situation

Gay Bingo puts a spell on the Lakewood

Wild About Harry

We'll meet you at the Hallows

Tom Hicks' Folly |Jesus and Harry Potter| Tonex's Naked Truth |Missing the Mark

We'll meet you at the Hallows

Mild About Harry

J.K. Rowling's ubiquitous hero wins some friends among Christians

Guitar Wizards

Harry and the Potters are here to school you

Dream World of Magic

Catch Narnia in Fort Worth

Spellbound

Harry and the Potters rock the library

School Rules

Harry and the Potters rock the library

Turning Japanese

Like the anime, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja is goofy fun

Around the World in 24

Like the anime, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja is goofy fun

Hogwarts, North Texas Division

Do you believe in magic? Then we have a school for you, Harry.

Fire Flies

The fourth Harry Potter rushes through its paces

We Heart Harry

The fourth Harry Potter rushes through its paces

Harry Goes Scary

The Prisoner of Azkaban takes a Sirius-ly dark turn

Going Wonkas

Willy Wonka hangs ten at Hurricane Harbor

Midnight Magic

Things get Harry at Barnes & Noble

Challenger of the Realm

H.J. Ralles has a Harry alternative

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

Wonder Boy

Harry Potter's second adventure delights exactly like the first

Best Place for a Kid's Party

ASI Gymnastics, Lake Highlands location

Dining Out

Eat out this holiday season

Small Matters

Gifts for pets and children – basically the same thing

It's So Wizard!

The magic eclipses the marketing of the big-screen Harry Potter

Slicing the pie

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison switches to the side of the angels in Texas' tobacco battle