In February, when it was cold and wet in New York, I rode a jitney under blue skies from the Orlando airport into Disney World. Before reaching the Magic Kingdom, the bus passed a range of gray crags ...

On a scale from 1 to 9 3/4, how geeky is it to attend a four-day LARP (live-action role play) event inspired by the Harry Potter universe? Frankly, we don't care. And neither, it seems, do the ...