Universe of Magic

Theatre Unleashed is producing an evening of magic at The Sherry Theatre in North Hollywood, CA in December. We're looking for 7-8 experienced magicians to come have fun and show their stuff! Looking to practice your tricks? Maybe you want to try something new in front of a live audience? C'mon out and do it with us! If you'd like to come and join us OR if you have any questions, please send an e-mail to webmaster@theatreunleashed.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , along with a) your contact information, b) links to your website and/or videos of your routine and c) any accommodations you may need (extra tables/chairs/etc). Thanks!

I just moved to Cambridge, UK. I'm originally from Santa Cruz, CA. I'll be living here for a year. Can anyone recommend a decent magic shop nearby?

Just saying hi... I'm the new girl

I'm Azrelle, performer and poser, and I have an interest in magic, specifically card tricks, rope magic, comedy tricks and sponge balls. Mostly what I do is geared towards adult audiences and the slightly risque.

Currently I use a lot of "self working" tricks so that i can concentrate mostly on performance, but i'm starting to get to grips with deck manipulations and forces. My favourite item to take out with me on a walkabout though is a Svengali deck.... I think i've got 101 different "acts" based on it now for mingling in crowds!!

if anyone's interested, i'm selling the complete allan ackerman's advanced card control series on ebay. i figured this would be one of the best places to promote it. let me know if you have any questions. thanks.

I am going to go ahead and throw this out and let the chips fall where they may.

Flourishing sucks.

If you want to be a juggler, go be a juggler. If you flourish, you are a juggler. You aren't a magician.

How is a routine supposed to look magical when you go out of your way to prove that you are insanely skillful with a deck of cards? Ambitious card routines just became that much less magical. Transpositions now are simply yet another feat of your juggling abilities.

Card magic is supposed to look natural. As if you are handling the cards in the same way anyone else would, yet somehow magical things keep happening.

Flourishes promote the exact opposite effect. Who the hell would naturally be pulling Sybils?

Magician predicted terrible earthquake

NORWICH magician Geraldini claimed last night he had predicted a national disaster — days before the tsunami terror hit south-east Asia, killing tens of thousands of people.

He wrote down his predictions — he was the only one to see them — and put them in a box on Graham Barnard's breakfast show on Radio Norfolk.

The box was then padlocked and kept by the presenter until last night, when it was taken along to the opening night of A Cavalcade of Mystery, Magic and Illusion at St Peter's Theatre, Park Lane, Norwich.

Before the start of the show Geraldini — real name Gerald Morter — invited Graham Barnard and Derek James of the Evening News on to the stage.

It said: "I, Geraldini, predict that the front page of the Evening News dated Tuesday, December 28 December, 2004 will reveal the worst under-sea earthquake to hit Thailand and Asia. This quake will cause great damage and loss of life."

When asked how he had done it he said: "I can't say. I am sorry it is such a sad and tragic story."

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This seems like a horrible way to promote the art. Tasteless.

Mystics offered million dollar challenge

A sworn enemy of superstition, Canadian-born magician James Randi has thrown down the gauntlet to mystics, promising $1 million to anyone who can prove supernatural powers or a phenomenon beyond the reach of science.

An arch-skeptic who demonstrates with his own sleight of hand how easily it is to dupe the gullible into mistaking trickery for the supernatural, the bearded 76-year-old has written nine books and lectured at the White House, NASA and several top universities.

The million-dollar "paranormal challenge" lends publicity to Randi's life-long mission.

His pursuit of skepticism was sparked by a visit to a spiritualist church in his native Toronto when he was just 15.

Already an amateur magician, he was upset at seeing "common tricks" pass for divine intervention. But his attempts at enlightening the churchgoers cost him four hours questioning at the police station.