Vanessa is Genii’s associate editor as well as a writer focused on history, culture, and entertainment with bylines at The New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications.
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.
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.
Mistie Knight, one half of the magic duo Kyle and Mistie, is a contestant on Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef.
Insights from the popular host, writer, comedian, producer… and magician