Newspaper Articles on Magicians from around the world
Jesus Is Magic - as the annual convention of the Fellowship of Christian Magicians kicks off on a hot July afternoon, the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University is awash in displays of irreverent reverence.
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Summer job turns into new life for Burbank-born magician - Like the St. Louis Rams, Uncle Paul the Magic Man came to Missouri from California in the mid-1990s and found a new home.
The performer, whose real name is Paul Rheaume, can entertain in a number of ways. He has been a magician/hypnotist, a W.C. Fields impersonator and a master balloon sculptor, among other pursuits
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Jacob the Magician - Jacob Roeber has been doing magic since the age of four. The 14-year-old Superior boy's act has grown over the years. He brought his act Grandma's Marathon this year and he runs around at Duluth Huskies games doing magic.
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Patricia's Prize Win is Magic - A 13-year-old Glasgow girl has become the first to beat the boys to a top title for her magician skills .
Patricia Duncan swept aside the competition at the Northern Magic Circle in England - the first Scot to do so and the only girl to ever win the competition.
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Magician Carmen recognized for work - Local magician Vince Carmen of Houdini's Showplace was recently awarded the Presidential Citation and three medallions for his great career spanning three decades. The honors were made by The Society of American Magicians' national president Maria Ibanez on the first day of the fifth year that Houdini's Showplace has operated in the local area.
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The art of illusion losing way - pin-drop silence descends in the dark shadowy auditorium. Hundreds of audience are waiting in suspense with pouncing hearts. At the centre of the stage is a young woman trapped in a box waiting to be cut into pieces.
Background music intensifies creating an ominous ambience. The illusionist appears on the scene, with sharp blades he is about to use flashing in the dim light. With a sombre expression in the face he examines the sharpness of the blades.
Then, with a sleight of hand he performs the stunning work of art. He slices the woman's body into two pieces while she still smiles. The overwhelmed audience breaks the silence with rapturous applause.
This is a classic depiction of magic, a form of art that was an integral part of Bangladesh's culture.
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Presto Strange-o - The greatest magician since Houdini has a hit TV show, a $100-million gig with Cirque du Soleil and a fleet of 15 luxury cars. But behind layers of diamond-encrusted bling, Criss Angel struggles to reconcile a natural sweetness with dark, demanding demons
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Local magic shop celebrates anniversary - Be Amazing Magic shop, the only magic ship within 200 miles, celebrated its third anniversary Tuesday.
Be Amazing Magic Shop is a magic store for magicians of all types, beginner to professional. Tricks range from simple card and sponge ball tricks to advanced hypnosis DVDs and books.
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Alfred Mifsud – The Balancing Magic - A few weeks ago, The Balancing Magician and ex-president of IBM Ring 202 Malta, Alfred Mifsud was invited to attend the 8th Congress for Magicians held at the well known Saint Vincent in Valle D’Aosta Torino. Well known magicians from all over the world met at the Grand Hotel Sala Gran Paradiso and at the Palais. Alfred was in the company of such renowned Italian magicians as Silvan, Tony Binarelli, Pecar, Alexander, Berry, Davide Costi and Raul Cremona.
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Magician pediatrician made fear disappear - Children were not dragged screaming into the office of Dr. Richard Brown. They entered willingly and eagerly, anticipating the surprises that awaited, not the potential discomforts.
For more than 35 years, Brown was Tucson's magician pediatrician, entertaining multitudes of children by pulling quarters from their ears and multiplying sponge bunnies he kept hidden in the pockets of his lab coat.
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Young magician Darren Romeo is brought to you by Siegfried & Roy - The fact that the young magician will be standing in the spotlight with the long shadow of Siegfried & Roy looming behind him is not lost on Darren Romeo.
And even if it were, Siegfried Fischbacher is a living reminder, sitting nearby on the hotel couch and glaring at him from beneath a Rod Stewart-esque product-storm of hair.
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Founder of camp keeps life magical - Josh Corn, co-founder of Sarasota's Camp Cigma for magicians, has not ruled out the possibility that he will become a professional magician himself.
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The Wonder Men - Magic in India is far from a dying art, defended as it is by a nationwide 'brotherhood of magicians', discovers Arshad Said Khan.
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Performer’s intrigue with illusion has sent him far from Springs - It was magic that landed Richard Kwesell on a sailboat in the Aegean Sea — but not his magic.
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Magician rolls in awards - Local talent excellent source for learning the art, teen says
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