Observer alumnus, Daniel Williams, is contributing the review. The summer of 2015, right after I graduated from high school, I was cast in a local Quad Cities production of “Cats.”  I came to love...

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” Peter Jackson’s second installment of “The Hobbit,” was the top movie at the box office last Friday, but is receiving mixed reviews. Jackson has received...