by Jon Racherbaumer | Sep 23, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
VANNI BOSSI: CLASSY SCHOLAR Jon Racherbaumer Vanni Bossi was a classy scholar who diligently pursued excellence and he was a model of such artistic intent. This is why it’s challenging and perhaps futile to find an apt and summarizing word or two to pin like...
by Jon Racherbaumer | Aug 27, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
MATT-INGLY YOURS Jon Racherbaumer The taverns in Chicago, circa 1935-1960, were a fertile breeding ground for a special kind of close-up entertainment to gain traction. Prohibition led to speakeasies and after Prohibition was repealed, customers needed places...
by Conjuring Arts | Jun 12, 2015 | Articles, Magic News, Research
Magic, Magic, Magic, and Its History “the hook for my show is the history of magic. I’m an academic at heart.” By Mark Segal | June 11, 2015 – 1:47pm Allan Zola Kronzek is not your stereotypical magician. During a recent conversation at his house in Sag...
by Jon Racherbaumer | Jun 9, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
TWO SIDES OF THE SAME CIRCLE Almost forty years ago I wrote a short piece on a shop-worn term magicians regularly use: effect. This was a word that crept into our informal lexicon, supposedly because it’s preferable to “experiment” or “trick.” The old-fashioned...
by Conjuring Arts | May 14, 2015 | Articles, Magic News
By: Erica Klarreich April 14, 2015 Persi Diaconis shuffled and cut the deck of cards I’d brought for him, while I promised not to reveal his secrets. “I’m not going to give you the chance,” he retorted. In an empty conference room at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in...
by Jon Racherbaumer | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
OF DIVERSE PETIE JUGGLING KNACKS: Mulling Over Moves “Push on—keep moving.” -Thomas Morton What is a move’s role in the performance of magic? Shouldn’t “moves” be defined in ways more meaningful than previously defined? What would David Devant have thought...
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