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For 25 years, Steve Cohen’s Chamber Magic has been a fixture of New York City.
Tarot is getting showcased in London this year. From January 31 to April 30, the Warburg Institute is hosting an exhibit called Tarot—Origins & Afterlives.
This February, the CBC put out a podcast episode about Henry Box Brown, an enslaved person in Virginia who, in 1849, shipped himself to freedom in a wooden crate.
The Loft has shows seven nights a week, 363 days a year. (The only days it’s closed are the Fourth of July, and—one of the most hallowed days of the year for many—Super Bowl Sunday.)
On February 3, Dave Loosely won The Magic Circle’s Close-up Magician of the Year competition.
The streaming service Shout! TV hosted a 24-hour Marathon of Magic
Opera North as once again brought to the stage the Kurt Weill-scored musical, Love Life, which originally starred magician and ventriloquist Jay Marshall.
Street magic will be featured in this year’s FISM in Torino, Italy. It’s part of Walter Rolfo’s plan to re-energize this classic convention.
Podcaster Ira Glass takes a look back at his days as a young magician.
FISM 2025 Italy will see the introduction of two new potential award categories: online magic and street magic.
10-year-old helps his dad figure out the mystery to performing 400-yea- old card trick.
Flames from the LA fires come dangerously close to The Magic Castle. Magicians and staff jump into action to protect The Castle.