David Blaine performing card magic in Times Square during the frigid weather on Saturday. Blaine is there presenting a 72-hour marathon of "Street Magic" to help raise money for the American Red Cross' Haiti relief effort. To make a donation click: HERE. (1/17/10: A Rene Clement Photo).

Carlisle magician performs in London - Cumberland County Sentinel
Nathan Kepner spent his New Year’s Eve miles from home. The Carlisle native performed magic tricks in one of the world’s most renowned and prestigious venues for a magician to perform - The Centre for the Magic Arts in London....
Publ.Date : Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:58:00 GMT

Rape investigation of magician David Copperfield closed - New York Post
Federal prosecutors have closed a two-year investigation into rape allegations against magician David Copperfield without filing charges. The notice came in a brief court document filed Tuesday by Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Roe. The ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:11:00 GMT

City date for magician who taught Harry Potter actor - This is Derbyshire
HARRY Potter may be a wizard at the box office but he might have missed a trick if it wasn't for professional magician Paul Kieve. Paul was the only magician to work on any of the Harry Potter films, beginning with The Prisoner of Azkaban. It was ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:45:00 GMT

Magic in the air at Saddleback College - OCRegister
The line-up included Magic Castle award winners Danny Cole, Mike Caveney and Tina Lenert. Rounding out the show were Larry Cisewski, Guinness World Champion knife thrower, and Chipper Lowell, who won the International Magicians Society's Merlin Award in 2004 ns 2006 for Comedy Magician of the Year....
Publ.Date : Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:12:24 GMT+00:00

Raymond Crowe brings magic to Festival First Night
Raymond Crowe brought a touch of magic to Festival First Night last Saturday as his astounding and intricate hand shadows of the Louis Armstrong classic "What a Wonderful World" were projected onto the top five stories of the Law Court Building in Sydney's CBD, as well as the big screens across The Domain.
Publ.Date : Tue, 12 Jan 2010

Feats of entertainment come to Fitton - Journal-News
David Kaplan, an entertainer coming to the Fitton Center Jan. 22, says he's not quite a magician, and not quite a musician. So what exactly is he? The Fitton Center’s Web site states that Kaplan will perform “feats of prestidigitation” - which is where the word "presto" comes from....
Publ.Date : Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:55:00 GMT

Sam The Magic Man at the Backdoor Comedy Club - Pegasus News
Sam Sawyers is a calculating entertainer. As he's about to take the stage at the Backdoor Comedy Club to perform three minutes of material, the rest of the amateur comedians in the lobby are nervously reading over their act and frantically making amendments. Donning a card-themed tie and black Converses, Sam is jovial and loose. "Everybody loves magic," he says. And he knows there's a novelty to it as well. "I hear it all the time -- 'you're the first magician I've ever met.'"...
Publ.Date : Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:13:00 GMT

William Rader transforms his passion for magic into the seemingly impossible ... - Oklahoma Gazette
William Rader’s fascination began with a card trick that he witnessed as a child. "I went home and couldn’t sleep that night. I couldn't stop thinking about how I had witnessed something impossible," he said. Even at that age, Rader was fascinated by secrets and driven by a curiosity to understand how things work....
Publ.Date : Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:03:46 GMT+00:00

David Blaine Uses Magic To Raise Money For Haiti - Gothamist.com
Presto, chango! David Blaine is turning the Haiti tragedy into a self-promotional opportunity. Word on the street is that the magician will be performing 72-hours of non-stop magic in Times Square to raise money for the victims of the earthquake. He ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:19:00 GMT

The real trick of this magical mystery: the writing - Globe and Mail
Magic and mystery are happy bedfellows. Magicians hope to leave their audiences with the ultimate how-dunit, which under the rules of their trade most of them would rather die than explain. But it's double the fun when the audience spends 40 minutes with the mystery and 20 minutes with the revelation. Welcome to the British mystery-comedy show Jonathan Creek , the fourth season of which (2003-04) will be released on DVD next Tuesday....
Publ.Date : Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:02:47 GMT+00:00

Tony Curtis Comes To The LEGEND SERIES At Magic Castle - Broadway World
Houdini returns to the The Magic Castle ... or rather the man who played him in hit film release for Paramount-Tony Curtis. Mr Curtis becomes the next featured artist in the highly popular LEGEND SERIES held at the Magic Castle....
Publ.Date : Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:55:46 GMT+00:00

Magician David Blaine's Haiti Relief In Times Square - RIGHTPUNDITS.COM
Master Magician David Blaine’s Haiti relief may be unconventional, but just about everything he does is unconventional. Blaine started a 72 hour magic marathon in Times Square Friday morning to raise money in conjunction with the American Red Cross for Haiti earthquake victims....
Publ.Date : Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:45:00 GMT

David Blaine's Times Square Marathon for Haiti - ABC News
David Blaine is an illusionist, magician, and endurance champion. Friday morning he began putting his skills to work for a cause. Blaine is vowing to spend three days and nights without sleep in the middle of New York's Times Square performing magic tricks to raise money for the Red Cross and their relief effort for Haiti's earthquake victims....
Publ.Date : Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:51:00 GMT

Carlisle, Pa., magic man performs in England - Centre Daily Times
Nathan Kepner spent his New Year's Eve miles from home. The Carlisle native performed magic tricks in one of the world's most renowned and prestigious venues for a magician to perform: The Centre for the Magic Arts in London.
Publ.Date : Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:10:32 GMT+00:00

Best magicians wander into Myrtle Beach area - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Award-winning magicians will perform a variety of show-stopping tricks and magical feats during "Champions of Magic" Saturday at the Palace Theatre. The show wraps up Magic at the Beach, a three-day magic convention organized by Roman LePree and David Tanner. Although the two aren't affiliated with a magic organization, they are both active in local magic clubs....
Publ.Date : Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:39:17 GMT+00:00

Do you believe in magic? - Jamaica Gleaner
Do you believe in magic? After about five minutes with Kemarch Dodd, better known as 'Wizad the Magician', you will. He rolls his fingers, cuts coins or just keeps pulling pieces of cloth from thin air....
Publ.Date : Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:51:00 GMT

Budding magicians learn some tricks - Fort Dodge Messenger
From a short distance away, it really does look like the pencil held loosely in Fort Dodge magician Larry Dunbar's closed fist is in fact rising into the air toward the wiggling fingers he is waving over its top....
Publ.Date : Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:50:00 GMT

David Blaine Makes Magic For Haiti - New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
David Blaine is working his magic to raise money for Haiti earthquake victims. The world-class magician kicked off a 72-hour, non-stop magic marathon in Times Square Friday. All proceeds going to immediate relief benefiting quake victims....
Publ.Date : Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:24:00 GMT

David Copperfield Probably Not a Rapist After All - Gawker
But apparently she was lying after all! The Smoking Gun reports that the FBI has shut down its investigation into the claims of the woman, "a former Miss Washington pageant contestant who now works as a waitress at a Bellevue restaurant," and concluded that she lied about Copperfield.
Publ.Date : Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:15:48 GMT+00:00

Meet 16-year-old Christopher the Magician - Scranton Times-Tribune
To those who know him best, he's Frank Galdieri. To those only famliar with his on-stage trickery, he's Christopher. Sound a bit confusing? It's really rather simple. While most kids his age are stocking shelves or flipping burgers, the 16-year-old ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:38:00 GMT