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J.K. Rowling

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Twilight-Inspired Baby Names Top the Arizona Charts ... Again

    ​Too bad J.K. Rowling couldn't come up with cuter names for her magical literary characters -- or at least names we could pronounce on this side of the pond (say it slowly ... "her-my-ah-knee"). In 2011, "Isabella" and "Jacob" (also the names of the two main characters in Stephenie Meyer's Tw ... More >>

  • Film

    July 14, 2011

    Harry Potter Fights His Final Battle

    ​Too bad J.K. Rowling couldn't come up with cuter names for her magical literary characters -- or at least names we could pronounce on this side of the pond (say it slowly ... "her-my-ah-knee"). In 2011, "Isabella" and "Jacob" (also the names of the two main characters in Stephenie Meyer's Tw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Make Your Own Harry Potter Butterbeer

    Food alchemy: Trying to turn ordinary cream soda into butterbeer.​In honor of this Friday's release of the long-awaited Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Virgin found it fitting to try to recreate one of the most magically delicious-sounding libations from the film series: Butt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Madonna: The Comic Book

    ​As we've already pointed out, rock stars like to write and star in comic books. The best of these comics contain original story lines and fantastical heros and villains, but sometimes, they take a more straightforward, biographical approach.The comic Female Force: Madonna, scheduled to be release ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Harry and the Potters to Bring Punky Wizard Rock to Burton Barr Central Library on June 10

    Harry and the Potters at the Tucson Public Library ​My favorite people watching moment at Phoenix Comicon had to be spotting a crew of teens dressed as Hogwarts students smoking outside of the Convention Center. I liked to imagine I had found the "bad kids" of the school, looking bad-ass in their ... More >>

  • Film

    November 18, 2010

    Harry Potter: The Kids Are Not All Right in Part One of the Potter Finale

    Harry and the Potters at the Tucson Public Library ​My favorite people watching moment at Phoenix Comicon had to be spotting a crew of teens dressed as Hogwarts students smoking outside of the Convention Center. I liked to imagine I had found the "bad kids" of the school, looking bad-ass in their ... More >>

  • Film

    October 22, 2009

    Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Fails to Get In on the Vampire Trend

    Harry and the Potters at the Tucson Public Library ​My favorite people watching moment at Phoenix Comicon had to be spotting a crew of teens dressed as Hogwarts students smoking outside of the Convention Center. I liked to imagine I had found the "bad kids" of the school, looking bad-ass in their ... More >>

  • Film

    July 16, 2009

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: That Old Black Magic Is Back Again

    Harry and the Potters at the Tucson Public Library ​My favorite people watching moment at Phoenix Comicon had to be spotting a crew of teens dressed as Hogwarts students smoking outside of the Convention Center. I liked to imagine I had found the "bad kids" of the school, looking bad-ass in their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2009

    10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Youth Brigade, Harry Potter, and Latin Beats

    Harry Potter tribute band The Remus Lupins are scheduled to perform at the Scottsdale Public Library's Mustang Branch on Saturday. Who says there's nothing to do during the summertime besides planting yourself in front of either the television or the air conditioner? Certainly not us, since we've a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Braving Hot Topic's Twilight Midnight DVD Release Party

    Friday night, crazy devoted Twilight fans lined up outside of Hot Topic at the Tempe Marketplace for the exclusive Midnight Release Party, open only to those who pre-ordered a copy of the special 2-Disc Hot Topic edition of the movie. It was packed inside the tiny store as a hundred or so ticket hol ... More >>

  • Music

    December 4, 2008

    Unaired Wu-Tang TV Shows

    Friday night, crazy devoted Twilight fans lined up outside of Hot Topic at the Tempe Marketplace for the exclusive Midnight Release Party, open only to those who pre-ordered a copy of the special 2-Disc Hot Topic edition of the movie. It was packed inside the tiny store as a hundred or so ticket hol ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 31, 2008

    Midnight of the Living Dead

    Final Twilight tome gets the rock-star treatment

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    Podcast: Harry and the Potters

    Final Twilight tome gets the rock-star treatment

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 26, 2007

    Final Twilight tome gets the rock-star treatment

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 19, 2007

    Final Twilight tome gets the rock-star treatment

  • Film

    July 12, 2007

    Dark Arts

    New Potter mines the depths of adolescent angst

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    Charmed

    Stephenie Meyer's vampire romance novels made a Mormon mom an international sensation

  • Music

    June 21, 2007

    Rock 'N' Rowling

    They might be wizards

  • Film

    November 17, 2005

    Fire Flies

    Fourth in series rushes through its paces

  • Music

    July 7, 2005

    Thrill Ride

    The original man's band, refrocked

  • Culture

    June 3, 2004

    Film Previews

    By Luke Y. Thompson and Gregory Weinkauf

  • Film

    June 3, 2004

    Harry Goes Scary

    The latest installation in the Harry Potter movie series gets creepy

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2003

    This One Time, at Film Camp...

    Film students take the fast track

  • Culture

    February 13, 2003

    The Bleeding Edge

    A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

  • Film

    November 14, 2002

    Wonder Boy

    Harry Potter's second adventure delights exactly like the first

  • Film

    December 27, 2001

    Setting Son

    In the Bedroom, a couple's anguish turns to rage, and then to rational madness

  • Film

    November 15, 2001

    Spell Binding

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

  • Culture

    July 20, 2000

    Dream Weaver

    Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

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