Did you need all three hints to guess whose trading card back this is?
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Previously posted:
28 July 2019
Sleightly Sketchy: Magician trading cards [MTC190728]
Imagine if magicians had trading cards.
Did you need all three hints to guess whose trading card back this is?
Previously posted:
Did you need all three hints to guess whose trading card back this is?
Previously posted:
27 July 2019
Saint John: Seeing is Believing at the Fundy Fringe Festival
The Fundy Fringe Festival runs August 19 - 24, 2019.
From the Magic Circle of Saint John Facebook event:
From the Magic Circle of Saint John Facebook event:
26 July 2019
Did Houdini own a Canadian made organ?
From the June 30 article "Ottawa organ linked to famed magician Harry Houdini" by Charles Stanley in My Web Times:
[via John Cox]
Could the legendary magician and escape artist Harry Houdini (1874-1926) have owned and touched the keys of an organ built in Ottawa?
It is a tantalizing thought — but undocumented. The provenance chain for the organ since leaving the Ottawa factory is missing crucial links. It is likely the possibility may, in fact, just be an illusion.
Read more.
[via John Cox]
25 July 2019
Gordon Precious in the Hamilton Spectator
From the July 18 article "Jeff Mahoney: Gordon Precious, Hamilton’s own, is in the Guinness World Records as oldest heli-skier" by Jeff Mahoney in The Hamilton Spectator:
He enjoyed skiing, as well as tennis, from an early age. "As I got better (at skiing) we'd go to Cedar Springs, but I was 15 and not allowed to drive so I'd go with 16-year-old friends who were. Once there were four of us in the car. Our names were Precious, Love, Darling and ... Anguish."
Gordon's conversation, fed by the springs of a terrific memory, is full of such delights, and when he tells me that, in addition to skiing and tennis, he practised the art of magic, I am not surprised, as there's a general feeling of magic about the man.
Read more.
24 July 2019
Julie Eng in Business Class magazine
From the June 17th article "Magician Julie Eng conjures wonder" by Keith Norbury in The world from here:
Magic has played a leading role in her life for as long as Julie Eng, BCom ’95, can remember.
“The story goes that I wasn’t delivered by the stork,” the Toronto-based Eng says. “I was pulled out of the hat.”
She learned her first magic trick from her magician father, Tony Eng, when she was just a toddler. He later introduced her to a secret world that would eventually permeate every aspect of her life and lead her to networking with the likes of Las Vegas showmen Penn and Teller.
Read more.
23 July 2019
London: Waterbark with David Acer
WaterBark! Heads to London, Ontario September 6-15.
From David Acer's Twitter feed:
From David Acer's Twitter feed:
Just wrapped 12 shows in 3 days in Lexington, KY with phenomenal acrobats, incredible dogs and a very unique pool doing a live show I co-wrote called WaterBark! Heads to London, Ontario September 6-15. Here's a teaser. pic.twitter.com/fv55t5HOFX— David Acer (@David_Acer) July 15, 2019
22 July 2019
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