Albus Dumbledore

The Rise of Found-Footage Horror

Why Paranormal Activity 4 and other new scary movies don't look like movies at all

Alex Benepe, Quidditch Commissioner, On the Upcoming Quidditch World Cup

​Alex Benepe is not a wizard, but the 25 year-old is nonetheless the first ever Commissioner of Quidditch and the founder of the International Quidditch Association. The Muggle version of Quidditch is an adaptation of the game played in the Harry Potter novels where players fly around on broom ... More >>

Harry Potter is Almost Here: 5 Ways To Celebrate the End of an Era

​As we all know, the release of the final Harry Potter film tonight marks the end of an era. For many children and young adults around the world, this will be an even more dramatic moment than turning eleven and not receiving a Hogwarts acceptance letter. After the jump, we've put together a l ... More >>

Harry Potter's Final Destination

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the Kids Are Not All Right

Has BP Actually, Seriously, Helped the Terrorists Win by Getting the Pan-Am Bomber Released?

​Sure, the leak very well might be contained! It's a celebration! Except we can't forget that BP, British Petroleum, is the organization responsible for one of the biggest environmental disasters (and subsequent disastrous clean-up) in the history of mankind. This matters because we're now for ... More >>

The Top 10 Non-Basketball March Madness Brackets

The surest signs of spring are upon us: flowers blooming, scantily clad NYU students smoking in the park, and most importantly, coworkers who have never showed any semblance of sports fandom live-streaming basketball for the next two weeks and yelling at their computers things like "Cinderella!" "B ... More >>

'Top Chef': When the Merde Hits the Fan

Bravo TV​Oh, those French and their talent for deadpan drama. What we Americans express with operatic levels of emotion, the Gauls communicate with a sniff, a raised eyebrow, an indifferent shrug. That may be why the decision to have a panel of intractably French chefs judge last night's gusta ... More >>

Old Black Potter Magic Continues to Beguile in Half-Blood Prince

Northern Chinese Dipping Paradise in Flushing

Hot pot hot spot

Dark Arts

New Potter mines the depths of adolescent angst

The Broom of the System

Give 'Em Hell, Harry!