We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. I feel that on some level changing the rules: Now you have to pay $16 to see how your show ends.”Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Martin recently wrote, “I don't know where this latest round of ‘there's going to be a GAME OF THRONES movie’ nonsense is coming from … But nothing has changed.” HBO programming president Michael Lombardo had corroborated this in a previous interview, saying, “When you start a series with our subscribers, the promise is that for your HBO fee that we’re going to take you to the end of this. While rumors that a “Thrones” movie is in development have long been discussed, “Thrones” writer George R.R. More story is often told on the website Pottermore as well, where fans can complete different wizard tasks like potion-making but where they can also often find new writing from Rowling about the “Potter” series.Īnother popular fantasy series recently brought its story to another medium earlier this year when episodes of the HBO TV series “Game of Thrones” were screened in movie theaters in anticipation of the show’s next season. The story of Harry was first told in Rowling’s seven-part book series and was then adapted into eight films. “Potter” coming to the stage means there is yet another medium that will tell the story of the boy wizard Harry Potter. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.”īy signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. “It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. Now, according to Pottermore, we know that the upcoming London stage play will take place during Harry’s adult life and also involve Albus. The epilogue also centered on Harry’s son Albus, who was starting at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the first time and who Harry had to reassure on his first day of school. At the end of the last “Potter” book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” an epilogue revealed that Harry married his schoolmate Ginny Weasley and they had three children. “Harry Potter” fans now know a lot more about the plot of the upcoming “Potter”-based stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”Īccording to the official “Potter” website Pottermore, the play will be the story of an adult Harry and his son Albus.
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