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Little Kitten – Cool Card Trick By James Galea

by podblack on October 23, 2010

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Hoodwinked – A Show With Banachek!

by podblack on November 23, 2008

ThiefHunters In Paradise Blog: “Prepare to be conned” is the show’s subtitle. The cast is made up of four consummate con artists who manipulate, baffle, and social-engineer the audience until they don’t know what to believe. But let me emphasize: this is not a magic show…. For me, a card scoffer, Richard Turner is a [...]

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New Yorker On Jamy Ian Swiss And Magic

by podblack on August 2, 2008

Our Far-flung Correspondents: The Real Work: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – Modern magic and the meaning of life. “The magician and his apprentice are believers in the deep and narrow art of closeup card magic. A few nights earlier, they had gone, with a dozen or so other people, on a rare late-night [...]

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Little Kitten – Take A Card!

by podblack on March 11, 2008

In the New Yorker – an mp3 for the magic fans, especially those who enjoy the work of Jamy Ian Swiss! This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik writes about modern magic. Here Gopnik talks about the future of magic and compares the magician’s art to the writer’s craft. You can check it out on [...]

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