 Pictured
is Ted Bogusta who owns
Martinka & Co., Inc. in
Midland Park, NJ (the only
magic shop which was once
owned by Houdini) where I
was this afternoon to pick
up some stuff. It occurred
to me that there are now
three magic shops within 15
miles from my office and
three more in NY that are
less than 20 miles away.
Fifty years before the
Internet started destroying
brick and mortar magic shops
the skyrocketing rents in
big cities decimated the
magic shop industry around
the world. Is the current
recession and devaluing of
real-estate making it
affordable to have magic
shops again? …Meir Yedid
(10/18/2011: A MagicTimes
photo).
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The Magicians to go live on BBC One -
ATV Today
Magic duo, Barry & Stuart, return to the
series this year and are joined by
magicians Pete Firman and Jason Latimer.
Each magician will be paired with a
different celebrity partner each week.
Together they will perform three
illusions, both live and pre-recorded,
from the classic to the never-attempted
before, after which their performances
will be put to the viewers' vote. The
magician and celebrity pair with the
fewest votes will then have to face a
live and dramatic forfeit.
Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:15:20
GMT+00:00
Magician Paul Daniels promises classic
tricks and gags at Radlett show -
Borehanwood Times
Reflecting on the show, entitled Hair
Today Gone Tomorrow, Paul Daniels said:
“Everything is designed to baffle you
and yet make you laugh. “People used to
laugh at Tommy Cooper when it went
wrong, well they laugh at me when it
goes right. It’s not my fault, I’m just
trying to be the international sex
symbol for which I’m known.”
Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:46:30
GMT+00:00
Mike Marlin - The Magician [Single] -
Altsounds.com
We know that magic is an illusion
created by skill and trickery, but we
agree to believe and applaud when the
magician deceives us. The contract is
unspoken but simple: "Lie to me, but
don't let me down...
Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:00:12
GMT+00:00
The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis - The
Chronicle
Persi Diaconis's unlikely scholarly
career in mathematics began with a
disappearing act. He was 14 years old
and obsessed with magic, spending much
of his free time in or around Tannen's
Magic Store, on Times Square, where
sleight-of-hand masters regularly
gathered to show off tricks and to
gossip. There, one of the most
influential magicians of the past
century, a card maestro named Dai
Vernon, saw Diaconis's prodigious trick
dealing and invited the young man to
leave New York and join him on the road.
Publ.Date : Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00
GMT+00:00
MEET THE SUPERHUMAN DYNAMO! - Daily Star
And now Dynamo, real name Steven Frayne,
can boast a celebrity fan base including
Jay-Z, Robbie Williams and Will Smith,
who are all in awe of the Yorkshire-born
star. And it’s no wonder, seeing as he’s
walked on water across the Thames and
levitated chubby comedian Matt Lucas.
Publ.Date : 2011-10-18T22:55:15Z
Breaking the spell: How did a quiet
anthropologist infiltrate Paris's
secretive Magic Circle? - The
Independent
Graham Jones might not have been able to
pull a rabbit out of a hat at a kids'
party, but he was going to have to make
a pain au chocolat appear from nowhere
for the Magic Circle of Paris. For five
months, the softly spoken anthropologist
from MIT, who hadn't performed a magic
trick since he was a child, worked hard
to master the techniques needed to
predict, Derren Brown-style, the pastry
someone would choose and to build the
props to make the chosen pastry appear
on command in front of some of France's
greatest magicians....
Publ.Date : 2011-10-19T22:54:04Z
Magician wows crowd of young, old at CV
library - Chino Valley Review
Magical Michael Steele brought his magic
and yo-yo show to the Chino Valley
Library on Oct. 12 for two performances.
Steele generated many "oohs and ahhhs!"
from the packed house of school-aged
children and their parents during the
performances sponsored by the Friends of
the Chino Valley Library....
Publ.Date : 2011-10-19T13:50:02Z
Rio headliners Penn & Teller split up --
but for how long? - Las Vegas Sun
Magicians Penn & Teller have split up,
and their theater at the Rio has gone
dark. Before going their separate ways,
their last performance there was on
Saturday. They’ve pulled the ultimate
disappearing act after 35 years of
outrageous, innovative and Emmy
Award-winning illusions.
Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:56:44
GMT
Magicians to help teach children road
safety - STV Local
Around 3500 Aberdeenshire school pupils
are set to learn road safety skills
through a series of magic shows to take
place this month...
Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:35:22
GMT
Magician Brushwood returns to amaze
Rowan - Whit
Brian Brushwood performed his bizarre
magic routine in the Student Center Pit
on Friday, Oct. 14 as a part of Rowan
After Hours. Brushwood first asked the
entire audience, “Would you guys like to
see traditional tricks, or some freaky
tricks?” The audience responded with
one, extremely loud response. He started
off with a small biography about himself
and showed a video of a little boy
learning to do the “traditional” tricks.
He then showed another video of tricks
he tried to learn as a kid, and called a
member of the audience up to assist him.
To everyone’s surprise, he then
proceeded to stick a metal bar through
his un-pierced tongue, grossing out and
exciting the entire audience....
Publ.Date : 2011-10-20T00:55:45Z
Casino Theatre in Vandergrift continues
to cast its magic spell - Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review
Aedryan Methyus's performance is much
more than just a trick. Methyus, a
magician who has spellbound audiences
worldwide for the past 15 years, will
bring his 90-minute, full stage-theater
production to the Casino Theatre in
Vandergrift for a 7 p.m. show Saturday.
"I like to suspend people's disbeliefs,
if even for a moment," says Methyus, who
lives in Mt. Washington. "I like to
bring back that childlike wonder and
mystery, when we were growing up and we
still believed in Santa Claus and
everything had an aura of magic."..
Publ.Date : 2011-10-20T03:26:05Z
Sleights of hand, sleights of mind - The
Guardian
The Conjurer, by Hieronymus Bosch,
depicts a medieval magician performing
for a small crowd, while pickpockets
steal the spectators' belongings. The
painting, on display at the Musée
Municipal in St.-Germain-en-Laye,
France, illustrates that magicians have
long known how to hack into our mental
processes. The principles of magic,
refined and perfected over the
centuries, provide neuroscientists with
new ways to study the brain and could
help them in their quest to reveal how
the organ performs the greatest trick of
all - consciousness itself....
Publ.Date : 2011-10-14T19:25:15Z
People: It’s all in the mind - New
Straits Times
Mentalist... magician... Zlwin Chew
creates illusions in the minds of his
audience, writes SUSHMA VEERA HE places
a set of forks on the table. “Eagle
brand,” he says. Seeing my bemused look,
he adds: “Well... they produce the
toughest fork. Not easy to bend.” Zlwin
Chew, 22, then starts to shake a fork
vigorously, slowly increasing in speed
and I can see the last prong of the fork
bending downwards. I am not sure if I am
shocked or excited but I certainly am
curious to see more.
Publ.Date : 2011-10-21T00:25:56Z
The man who made the Taj Mahal disappear
Franz Harary once made the the Taj Mahal
disappear for over a minute. It has been
his most famous act as an
internationally acclaimed magician. When
asked how he did it, Harary's answer
was: “It was the perfect illusion."
Through March, the American illusionist
will host his 90-minute, over-the-top,
hyper-sensory spectacle at New Delhi's
Kingdom of Dreams, in the 840-seater
Nautanki Mahal.
Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:51:02
-0700
Magician Dynamo visits store to meet
fans (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
- Bradford Telegraph Argus
World famous Bradford magician Dynamo
returned to his roots today to promote a
DVD of his jaw dropping tricks and
illusions. Hundreds of fans queued
outside Asda’s Pudsey store in the hope
of meeting the star, who earlier this
year stunned people across the globe
when he walked across the River
Thames...
Publ.Date : 2011-10-21T23:56:07Z
Rosander's love of prestidigitation,
theater turns into business - Star News
Online
These days, Rosander, 29, lives in
Wilmington with his wife, Caitlyn, and
owns his own magic company. Rosander and
his creative team, including Michael's
brother, Kenneth, and a good friend,
Myke Holmes, among others, perform at
parties and other events and host camps
where children learn tricks like the
magic coloring book. It's a trick
Rosander's grandfather taught him when
he was 5, and he still has the coloring
book his grandfather used in a frame in
his office....
Publ.Date : 2011-10-23T04:26:57Z
Tricks and Treats Magic Show coming to
Rockland - VillageSoup Belfast
Presto Paul comes to midcoast Maine all
the way from Kentucky where he is the
2009 and 2010 winner of the “Close-Up
Magician of the Year” award as well as
“War of the Wizards” winner 2010. He is
known for his blend of baffling magic
tricks and hilarious comedy....
Publ.Date : 2011-10-21T14:52:05Z
Bid to save India magician's home - BBC
News
Magicians in Bangladesh are up in arms
against a decision to demolish the
ancestral home of legendary Indian
magician PC Sorcar. They have been
holding protests demanding that the
government protect the house, turn it
into a museum and establish a school of
magic there.
Publ.Date : Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:58:59
GMT
Udupi: Magicians Shankar Duo Charm
Amritsar - Daijiworld.com
Magician Prof Shankar and Shankar Junior
from Udupi performed their Gili Gili
Magic in Amritsar (Punjab) between
October 15 to October 20. The
prestigious show was held at the Tagore
Theater of the renowned Khalsa College
of Education which resembles Lalith
Mahal Palace of Mysore...
Publ.Date : Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:46:48
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