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CONVERSATIONS WITH RICKY JAY

We recently received an email from a reader telling us of a new television project featuring Ricky Jay. From the bio page of Jesse Dylan at Form.TV we find confirmation: Jesse is currently producing and directing an innovative new television series entitled CONversations with Ricky Jay.  This one-of-a-kind series with sleight of hand artist/actor/author Ricky Jay explores the fine art of cons, frauds, and hoaxes with celebrities, experts, luminaries and fellow raconteurs. Dylan also directed the DVD film segment of the Grammy Nominated "Ricky Jay Plays Poker. More info as it becomes available.

CRISS ANGEL TO LAUNCH CLOTHING LINE

Mindfreak Illusionist Criss Angel & Dessault apparel have teamed up to produce a new clothing line to be called MF13. Accoring to AHN, "Dussault Apparel will be designing the line, which will include jeans, t-shirts, and accessories. The clothing range will be sold at Angel's Mindfreak shop in Las Vegas' Luxor Hotel and on his website, www.crissangel.com."

MURRAY SAWCHUCK LIKES A GOOD CIGAR

Cigar Weekly interviews magician Murray Sawchuck for an article in which he discusses his love of Good Cigars, his career as a magician and his role in VH1's Celebracadabra. You can read the interview online, or in the current issue available where fine cigars are sold. When asked:  What are you enjoying as you work this interview? I’d hope you’d have a smoke while you did this. Murray responded: Actually, I am sitting in the same room as the photos were taken of me smoking the cigars in my suit after my show. I am smoking a Montecristo Court 44 X 5 ½  that was handmade in the Dominican Republic . A fan actually gave it to me after my show last night in the Stardust Theatre.    

HOMAGE TO RABBITS::CIRQUE DE SOLEIL

CIRQUE'S 'BELIEVE" DANCERS TO PERFORM ON TONIGHT'S FINALE OF "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE"

During tonight's (AUG 7th) finale of the Fox show "So You Think You Can Dance," the dancers from the upcoming Luxor show "Criss Angel : Believe" will perform a piece from the new show. The dancers from Believe will perform "Homage to the Rabbits" choreographed by Wade Robson.

GUY HOLLINGSWORTH :: EXPERT AT THE CARD TABLE

Guy Hollingsworth new show is promoted in a piece from UK Metro: Guy Hollingworth is the expert, the green baize providing a canvas on which he can create mysterious visions with nothing more than a pack of playing cards and a little dexterity. A top-notch, close-up magic show, The Expert At The Card Table draws heavily on the seminal book written by SW Erdnase, originally published in 1901, and looks into the story behind the writing of the book. Heaving with murder, suicide, deception and death, it's a fascinating tale.

THE PRESTIGE :: MAGIC BAR

Billing itself as "an official magician's hangout," a new bar has opened in San Antonio with a magic theme and calls itself "The Prestige." According to IBM Ring 18 President David Cook, members of the IBM and the Society of American Magicians can be found at the Prestige most nights performing magic for the crowd. "Poof! Your a sot!" is the title for a piece from the San Antonio Current which gives a positive review to one of few concept themed bars in the area. 

MNW38 & MNW39 :: HARRY LORAYNE

Harry Lorayne has appeared numerous times on every national television talk show in the United States as well as on innumerable programs throughout the world. He has had feature articles written about him and his work in most major publications and newspapers including, but not limited to, Fortune, US News & World Report,  Reader’s Digest, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Nations Business. He has even been called "The Yoda of Memory Training" by Time magazine. As if that were not enough, Harry Lorayne was named as one of the 100 most influential magicians of the century in 1999 by Magic Magazine. Join us on this edition of the Magic Newswire for our conversation with magician Harry Lorayne. Lorayne wrote and published the magazine Apocalypse for twenty years (later republished in books). His latest book for magicians is Lorayne: The Classic Collection, an updated collection of his first four magic books of the 1960s, and recently he completed Mathematical Wizardry—magic with numbers.

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UK STREET MAGICIANS COME TO US TV

In 2005, the UK television Channel 4 aired an eight show series called Freaky featuring magicians Variety International and the Futon Critic report that the show has been picked up by Cable Network G4 and will begin airing episodes starting on Friday August 1st at 9PM as a part of its' "Duty Free Block." The show stars magicians David Penn, Nigel Mead, Mike Fitch and Phil-the mini magician and follows the cast as they shock people on the streets with magic. Multichannel.com describes the show by saying, Freaky is a fresh, funny and outrageous take on magic that is aimed at young, street-wise viewers who wouldn't be caught dead in the audience of a typical magician.  The "Kings of the Curious" are far from the typical, run-of-the-mill magicians. They are six talented young performers who ply their wares anywhere an unsuspecting audience can be found; on the streets, in a fish market, or in their own electronic performance spaces. In the video below from magician David Penn, several clips from the show are featured which will give you a bit of an idea as to what to expect from the show. Below that, you can watch the video intro for the show as well.