We hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! For many of you, today means going back to work (me too!) but let’s jump back a second and enjoy just a little more of the holiday season with this appearance by Graemazing on CHCH Christmas Eve.
Out of Vegas comes word Clark County is delaying a vote on allowing the Owenhouse show, and its tigers, on to the Strip until January 19.
Finally, Debbie McGee, wife and performance partner of Paul Daniels, revealed see will be quarantined over Christmas as she awaits results from Covid testing. Read more on the Entertainment Daily site.
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Sorry about yesterday… not much Internet in the last couple of hotels. And that seems to be the perfect introduction to: Interested in contributing to iTricks? Must love magic. Drop me a line at swordsandrayguns@gmail.com.
That lead video is a Birmingham Live feature on Peter Morris, a magician based in (you guessed it) Birmingham.
First up, that is “Excellent Elizabeth” Nauert escaping from a straitjacket. The 14 year old is heading to the 2022 Society of American Magicians convention in Las Vegas next month where, according to The Advertiser-Tribune, she will be receiving the 2022 Star of Tomorrow Award. Congratulations!
Sadder news from India, Mid Day interviews Manu Mankombu, a Kerala magician who has gone from poverty to success driven by popular fire escapes back to poverty thanks to the Covid 19 lockdown.
Malaysia’s Avery Chin has set the new Guinness World Record for performing the most magic tricks blindfolded (thirty in a minute) and an additional record after performing thirty seven tricks in minute.
DMC is everywhere… or at least in the media everywhere. Today it is The Jerusalem Post with news he is turning to an Israeli company to help him produce a new digital version of his card game Zilch.
That is Josh Maddocks performing at the Tipsy Teapot… more about him in a moment.
The Insider is among several news outlets reporting a magician was brought on to the set of the new Guillermo del Toro film Nightmare Alley to help make sure the film’s sideshow magic was authentic. No outlet is naming the magician, though. By the way, this film is based on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel Nightmare Alley and was adapted to the screen in 1947 with Tyrone Powers as the lead.
