Date Lines: Darren Romeo's disappearing act (San Francisco Chronicle)
Disappearing act Crooner-magician Darren Romeo is packing up his magic tricks and getting ready to leave town two weeks earlier than planned. The producers announced Friday that "Darren Romeo: The Voice of Magic" will play its final performance at Post Street...
Publ.Date : Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:43:01 GMT

Magic Collection of Jay Marshall Public Auction - News-antique.com (press release)
books and photographs related to the great escape artist; lithographs and broadsides advertising famous magicians of yesteryear including Thurston, ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:14:00 GMT

Wisconsin Dells Magician Performs Benefit Show For Lake Delton Families (WISC-TV Madison)
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. -- For some Lake Delton homeowners, the surging floodwaters that emptied the man-made lake and destroyed a nearby highway and area homes two weeks ago was a real-life magic trick. Before residents' eyes, it was a case of first you see it, now you don't.
Publ.Date : Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:57:02 GMT

So you want to be a magician? - Savannah Morning News
Eventually, Montgomery quit his job as a legal assistant to dedicate all his time to being a magician , performing for children and adults. ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:14:41 GMT

Inside the mind of Derren Brown - BBC News
He likens David Blaine , best known for stunts such as spending 44 days in a Perspex box above London's River Thames, as Houdini and calls US duo Penn and ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:16:22 GMT

The Marcophile: Magic -- even in photos? - Marco Eagle
There are a lot of amateurs and part-timers but not many full-time magicians . We mostly know each other and often meet and compare tricks and all that at ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:24:26 GMT

America's Got Talent: Episode 302 - Tvsquad.com
(S03E02) "I have shoes older than you but I'd like to try you on!" - Sharon to 23-year-old Joseph, an Elvis impersonator. The second episode of America's Got Talent auditions brought more great acts and more terrible performances. This week, we were ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:36:00 GMT

Focus on hocus pocus (Bowling Green Daily News)
Ninety-six-year-old magician John Calvert levitates a woman Monday night during the finale of the Magicarama show at the Capitol Arts Center
Publ.Date : Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:28:51 GMT

Book Review: Hocus Pocus - The Trades
That's the phrase Paul Kieve uses for the title of this fanciful whirlwind tour of the world of stage magicians . Borrowing a page from Dickens, ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:13:27 GMT

Musician in UAE, magician with a cause in Kerala (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Kozhikode, June 25 (IANS) P.K. Ummer Bhai teaches music at a school in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). But back home in Kerala he dons the robe of a magician to tell children the truth behind superstitions and black magic.
Publ.Date : Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:34:00 GMT

Magicians take their chocolate chip cookies chewy or crispy - Jackson Clarion Ledger
Since 1975, Penn & Teller have entertained audiences worldwide with their offbeat comedy combining amazing magic and sleight-of-hand miracles. ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:03:18 GMT

IMPRESARIO: What's What With... The Man Who Made a Jumbo Jet Disappear - Philadelphia Magazine's Daily Examiner
It's true that Mark Kalin and Jinger Leigh don't have the profile of magicians like Copperfield, David Blaine, or Penn & Teller, but within that inner ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:02:35 GMT

Self-proclaimed Ambassador of Magic was a mentor to aspiring illusionists
A self-taught conjurer, he first tried his tricks out on customers at his family's Beacon Cafe in Sidney, B.C. He later went on tour and astonished audiences across the U.S. and Canada…
Publ.Date: June 27, 2008 - The Globe and Mail

Max Maven Thinking in Person - Los Angeles Weekly
porting a goatee and a haircut chiseled into a receded serpent's tooth in the front, Max Maven cuts a figure that could have been carved by Edgar Allen Poe. He wears all black -- some critic once commented on his "Japanese" attire, he points ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:49:00 GMT

DVD Review: Houdini (1953) (Blogcritics.org)
Houdini is entertainment for the whole family. Houdini is one of those Hollywood Technicolor classics that is not a classic because of its accuracy, but rather because of its chutzpah and its ability to sensationalize as well as, or better than, the showman Harry Houdini himself.Harry Houdini - born Ehrich Weiss on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary - was a magician/escapologist and stunt... ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:39:07 GMT

It's magic, it'll bug you - The State
For Reisz -- a member of the Society of American Magicians and the International Brotherhood of Magicians -- magic tricks are a tool for captivating ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:46:48 GMT

Pixar whips up magic with 5-minute "Presto" - MSNBC
The arrival of a new Pixar film also means the debut of the animation studio's latest short. And this time, the feature film has more in common with its short-film tradition. "WALL-E," which opens in theaters Friday, is accompanied by "Presto ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:57:00 GMT

Abracadabra! Magicians need cash to appear - Los Angeles Daily News
Many of the secrets and props used by Harry Houdini are in the Magicians Hall of Fame museum in the basement of the Washington ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:54:43 GMT

"Super Magic Man" - So Md News
Rice introduced himself, and Livera told him that if he wanted to take magic seriously he needed to join the International Brotherhood of Magicians , ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:44:05 GMT

A link to magic: Dave Thomen passes along some coveted tricks to ... - Carroll County Times
ELDERSBURG - Magician Dave Thomen raised his hands in the air, pretending to read the mind of rising third-grader Sydney Dickinson. Moments earlier, Dickinson had been selected out of a crowd of about 40 students gathered at The Goddard School in ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:45:00 GMT

Rope Trick going places - Newindpress
The theme of the film is the mythical Indian rope trick believed to have been performed by street magicians in the 1850s. ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:06:58 GMT