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Harry Potter

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    "It's the Bondage Version of Harry Potter": How is 50 Shades of Grey Affecting Your Sex Life? (Updated)

    Now that 50 Shades of Grey has (apparently) become the only work of erotica produced in the entire world since D.H. Lawrence banged out Lady Chatterley's Lover, it's only fitting that it's become the Lady Chatterley of the twenty-first century. Well, OK, it and its two sequels made their way into b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Hunger Games Is Again One of the Most Challenged Books in Libraries

    The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom announced  its 2011 top ten "Most Challenged" books list, and for the second year in a row Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy made the list, coming in at a steady number 3. The most popular reasons given for someone challe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Out Every Night: The Best Shows From March 26 to April 1

    Still tired from last week? Too bad, March is unrelenting. Time to down some coffee, eat some energy bars and pack in the protein (might we recommend some pink slime?) because this week is jam-packed with shows as well. On Friday, two guys named Pete who happen to be legends in their respective fiel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Four Steps To The Perfect Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Songfic

    Avoid trusting R/Hr fans and matchbox twenty haters in particular. ​It's Friday morning, and you are depressed. If you still have a pair of IMAX glasses on, or regular glasses made to look like omnioculars, you're depressed because you just got back from the midnight showing of Harry Potter an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

    Jennifer SilverbergCaprese pintxos from Café Pintxos. Where were they when Ian visited?​Gut Check lunched at House of India and got the scoop on some new resaurants opening in the Central West End and Delmar. What else did Gut Check do this week? We continued the countdown of our favorit ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    The Cover of the July 14 Print Edition

    Jennifer SilverbergCaprese pintxos from Café Pintxos. Where were they when Ian visited?​Gut Check lunched at House of India and got the scoop on some new resaurants opening in the Central West End and Delmar. What else did Gut Check do this week? We continued the countdown of our favorit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    If Harry Potter Characters Had Bands: Twelve We'd Like To See

    ​If Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton's promise (which turned out to be a joke/hoax) to become a white rapper was just one more sad reminder of a series you used to love, we don't blame you -- but we would like to discourage you. Harry Potter, as I'm sure you will remember, is after all a little m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Harry Potter's Over. Cope With Some Themed Eats.

    Calm down -- just because the Harry Potter movie franchise comes to an end this weekend with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the Hogwarts kids will live on in these wizarding-inspired eats. Until they're devoured. Then commence moaning like Myrtle. Of course, for the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Ten Ridiculous Amazing Themed Restaurants We Wish Existed

    Image viaWould you like a danish from a Supreme Court Justice?​Sometimes at Gut Check International Headquarters, we get tired of eating gourmet meals day in and day out. We admit it: We like a little kitsch once and a while. Today, this story from the HuffPost Food about outrageous themed res ... More >>

  • Film

    November 18, 2010

    And the kids are not all right in Part One of the Harry Potter finale

    Image viaWould you like a danish from a Supreme Court Justice?​Sometimes at Gut Check International Headquarters, we get tired of eating gourmet meals day in and day out. We admit it: We like a little kitsch once and a while. Today, this story from the HuffPost Food about outrageous themed res ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2010

    Let's Ban Banning

    Image viaWould you like a danish from a Supreme Court Justice?​Sometimes at Gut Check International Headquarters, we get tired of eating gourmet meals day in and day out. We admit it: We like a little kitsch once and a while. Today, this story from the HuffPost Food about outrageous themed res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Rod Blagojevich on Celebrity Apprentice: Week Four

    Image source​Friends, for four weeks now, we've been watching Rod Blagojevich together on Celebrity Apprentice. It hasn't always been great -- actually, since every episode is now two hours, most of it is actually pretty damned boring, especially the parts where the celebrities meet the recipi ... More >>

  • News

    March 3, 2010

    ¡Ask a Mexican! What's in a Mexican name, and where's the English equivalent?

    Image source​Friends, for four weeks now, we've been watching Rod Blagojevich together on Celebrity Apprentice. It hasn't always been great -- actually, since every episode is now two hours, most of it is actually pretty damned boring, especially the parts where the celebrities meet the recipi ... More >>

  • Film

    December 23, 2009

    Best of the Decade: Our film reviewers recap their favorites of the last ten years

    Image source​Friends, for four weeks now, we've been watching Rod Blagojevich together on Celebrity Apprentice. It hasn't always been great -- actually, since every episode is now two hours, most of it is actually pretty damned boring, especially the parts where the celebrities meet the recipi ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    Animated Characters: Con-goers insist that yaoi ain't yucky

    Image source​Friends, for four weeks now, we've been watching Rod Blagojevich together on Celebrity Apprentice. It hasn't always been great -- actually, since every episode is now two hours, most of it is actually pretty damned boring, especially the parts where the celebrities meet the recipi ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2009

    Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys: Inside the Midwest's first celebration of all things yaoi — where the screaming never stops

    Image source​Friends, for four weeks now, we've been watching Rod Blagojevich together on Celebrity Apprentice. It hasn't always been great -- actually, since every episode is now two hours, most of it is actually pretty damned boring, especially the parts where the celebrities meet the recipi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Spotting the Twilight Phenomenon First-Hand

    Teen book-turned-movie Twilight came out on DVD at the stroke of midnight Saturday morning. Although Unreal refers to Twilight as "awesomely bad teeny bopper trash," its fans and their parents might best be described as fang-wearing, cape-donning, utterly endearing geek-azoids.Parents of the Year.As ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    The Phoenix Rises

    Harry Potter returns!

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    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 be ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    Unreal's cougar search continues, with a bathroom break, and another for Breaking Dawn

    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 be ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    December 12, 2007

    Killer Climax

    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 be ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    December 12, 2007

    Our Top DVD Picks

    Scheduled for release this week.

  • Music

    November 14, 2007

    Xasthur

    Defective Epitaph

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2007
  • Calendar

    July 25, 2007

    Just Desserts

    Defective Epitaph

  • Calendar

    July 25, 2007

    Potter Mania Continues!

    Defective Epitaph

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007
  • Calendar

    July 18, 2007
  • News

    July 18, 2007

    Potter Mouth

    Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

  • Film

    July 11, 2007

    Dark Arts

    Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

  • Calendar

    June 27, 2007

    Purple Potter Party

    Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

  • Calendar

    June 20, 2007

    The Lion in Lebanon

    Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

  • Calendar

    November 8, 2006

    Potter Heads Unite!

    Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

  • Calendar

    August 16, 2006

    Apparate to the Library

    Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

  • Calendar

    August 9, 2006

    Muggles Unite!

    Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

  • Home Entertainment

    July 12, 2006

    Turning Japanese

    Like the anime, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja is goofy fun.

  • Film

    May 17, 2006

    Here's Your Insight, Pal

    James Redfield's Prophecy is one divine mess

  • Music

    May 3, 2006

    Vacation, Had to Get Away

    Riddle of Steel checks in from Europe, Ghostface Killah gets all James Joyce on us, while the Download directs us to MP3 nirvana

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    Petrosexuals

    The truth about fancy pets' cuddly liaisons, Grandmaster Y.K. Kim's top (tweaked) tips for the new year and a woman who's into the erotic side of Harry Potter.

  • Film

    November 16, 2005

    Film Openings

    The truth about fancy pets' cuddly liaisons, Grandmaster Y.K. Kim's top (tweaked) tips for the new year and a woman who's into the erotic side of Harry Potter.

  • Dining

    August 10, 2005

    Scotch Frisky

    The Scottish Arms is a wonderful wee place -- and yeah, there's haggis

  • Calendar

    August 3, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Week of August 3, 2005

  • Film

    June 2, 2004

    Harry Goes Scary

    The Prisoner of Azkaban takes a Sirius-ly dark turn

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2004

    Bobcat at Rest

    Content, but still funny

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2003

    He Who Must Not Be Named

    Wizard Weekend wocks

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2003

    Behold! Wizardry!

    Booksellers prepare for Harry Potter-palooza 5

  • Film

    April 16, 2003

    Digging for Treasure

    With the complexly plotted Holes, Disney serves up a great deal more than the usual kiddie fare

  • Film

    November 13, 2002

    Wonder Boy

    Harry Potter's second adventure delights exactly like the first

  • Film

    November 14, 2001

    It's So Wizard!

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

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