Author J.K.Rowling has donated a bag that she carried at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone to a charity auction. The Scotsman reports that Jo donated a ” small black Rodo purse.” Other celebs contributing to the “Handbag Heaven” auction also include singers Annie Lennox and Beyonce. Tickets are available for the …read more!

The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire DVD won a technical award at “The 9th Annual DVD Awards with Leonard Maltin.” B1Media, the company which designed the Welcome menu on the GoF DVD, was named winner for “Major Technical – Best Menu Design.” The interactive DVD menus boasted a 3D castle, a fully animated …read more!

Voting at the 2006 Podcast Awards ends tomorrow! As most of you know by now, PotterCast has been nominated in two categories along with our friends at MuggleCast. We’re teaming up to make sure that both podcasts win, so we ask everyone to vote for MuggleCast in Peoples Choice and PotterCast in Entertainment. You can …read more!

JKRowling.com has been updated to wish one Ginny Weasley a very happy birthday!

Our anniversary show, PotterCast 50, is now up! To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download.) In this show: -Don’t forget to vote for us in the Podcast Awards today and tomorrow! PotterCast for Best Entertainment, MuggleCast for People’s Choice -We’ve also …read more!

Though you can get it today on video here (directly download it here, it’s 1GB), Alex and the elves have completed and uploaded the transcript of the August 2, 2006, reading at Radio City Music Hall, right here. (The transcript to the first nigiht is right here.) All the links to our videos, pictures, transcripts, …read more!

Update: To directly download the entire gigabyte of video, click here. It might not work on a Mac. The video of “An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp,” the reading J.K. Rowling did at Radio City Music Hall last week, is now up on video.msn.com. The direct link to the video is right here. For …read more!

Our live LeakyMug from New York City is now online! You can subscribe to the all-new, all-on-its-own LeakyMug feed via iTunes right here. If you’re anti-feed, you can download it here by right-clicking and saving. In this show we go over some of the highlights from Vegas and the New York readings, and just have …read more!

Scholastic has just announced that starting tomorrow, for only two days, MSN will stream “An Evening With Harry, Carrie and Garp” for free at video.msn.com. Starting Saturday, highlights will be available on demand, through the end of August. For more information, pictures, reports, transcripts, and soon to be more of this event, see our event …read more!

Actor Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) has been tapped for an unnamed project to air on ITV. In an effort to “revitalise” ratings, the UK channel is enlisting the use of some well known names to help with stronger programing and audience appeal. The BBC reports that: “A spokesman said they would include Rupert Grint – …read more!