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Showing posts with label Dai Vernon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dai Vernon. Show all posts
23 December 2025

ICYMI: The Professor and His Student by Shawn McMaster in Genii

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Read the October 20th article " The Professor and His Student " by Shawn McMaster at Genii.  (Excerpt available for free, full art...
02 April 2021

You're invited to a CAM JAM with Chip Romero

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Updated April 19th to add: Screen shots and thoughts from the event at the bottom of the post.   Wednesday, April 14 at 8 PM EST This is a...
23 February 2020

David Ben in the Globe and Mail

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A reminder that David will be speaking about The Golden Age of Magic at the AGO later this week. From the February 22nd opinion piece ...
01 July 2018

Dai Vernon in Atlas Obscura

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From the June 25th article " An Insider’s Tour of New York’s Disappearing Magic History, " by Sarah Laskow in Atlas Obscura : Wi...
22 March 2018

Who are the top 10 Canadian magicians of all time?

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Updated April 3rd at 6pm to add the following nominations: Celeste Evans and Reveen The Impossiblist (Reveen Sr.) Updated March 31st ...
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29 November 2017

Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic

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From Magicana : While the film was very well received, it was only available briefly for purchase as a VHS cassette, which was subsequent...
11 February 2017

Mystery School Monday: Dai Vernon his life and magic

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Earlier this week Jeff McBride dedicated Mystery School Monday to Dai Vernon his life and magic. Go on over to Magical Wisdom and watch M...
13 February 2016

Canadians on the list of "Top Ten Magicians of the 20th Century"

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Have a look over at The Top Tens and see how Doug Henning, Dai Vernon, Shawn Farquhar, and Shin Lim are ranking in their list of " Top...
28 January 2016

Shane Cobalt at Belfast MagiCon 2016

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Shane Cobal t will be performing at Belfast MagiCon 2016 . From Belfast MagiCon 2016 : Belfast MagiCon 2016 is being held in the Ramada...
10 November 2015

Perfect Magic on Magicians and Politicians

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From Perfect Magic's blog : For a brief moment I had a flashback to a Magic Convention.  Dai Vernon, the 80 plus year old legend, wit...
22 January 2015

Ricky Jay on Dai Vernon

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From iTricks : PBS is stepping up the promotion of their airing of Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice as a part of American Masters next week...
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16 January 2014

Dodd Vickers and David Roth talk Dai Vernon

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From Dodd Vickers Twitter feed : Dai Vernon's Circumcision/Conversion - One of many fun topics discussed in our chat with @conjuringar...
31 October 2013

Storytime with The Professor

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From John Cox at Wild About Houdini : The October 2013 Magic Castle Newsletter has launched a new column, "Storytime with The Profes...
03 March 2013

Dai Vernon interview

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From Richard Hatch's Twitter feed : Late Vernon interview (1987) includes a couple of good anecdotes: youtube.com/watch?v=KLy2H2… ......
10 August 2012

Video of 1987 Dai Vernon roast

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From The Magic Newswire : Thanks to Michael Ammar for sharing this video from the 1987 roast of Dai Vernon at the New York Magic Symposiu...
15 June 2012

Vernon and Henning at the Magic Castle

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Watch  1972 CBC footage of Dai Vernon coaching Doug Henning at the Magic Castle: [h/t: The Magic Newswire ]
17 February 2012

Dai Vernon mentioned in Magic Castle article

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From the LA Weekly article "Magic Castle Battles Back From a Halloween Fire. Was it a Message From Houdini?" : The late Dai Verno...
20 December 2011

Dai Vernon's son recovering from house fire injuries

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From iTricks : 79-year-old David Verner, son to legendary magician Dai Vernon, was very badly burned by an electrical fire at his New York...
13 December 2011

Dai Vernon via The Double Deal

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Tip of the hat to The Double Deal for posting these Dai Vernon videos: Cards Up the Sleeve - 1974 : Slow Motion Card Vanish :
07 November 2011

Dai Vernon at the Magic Castle?

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Watch the Magic Castle videos from LAGhostPatrol over at the The Magic Newswire :