Magic Roadshow

HYDERABAD: A lathi and a crowd is something that goes hand in hand in a police officer’s life. However, for S Manohar Rao,  who goes by the name ‘Stick Manohar’, a crowd of 1,500 schoolchildren and a magic wand in hand was the last step before making it into the Guinness Book of World Records.

The 55-year-old is an Assistant Commisioner of Police (ACP) attached to the Central Crime Station, Detective Department, of Hyderabad Police. Friday was a day where he successfully attempted a “Largest Magic Lesson” when he taught four different magic lessons to a crowd of 1500 schoolchildren in 85 minutes at Majestic Garden Function Hall here to create Guinness world record. Read more.. 

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2016/dec/17/stick-manohar-teaches-1500-kids-magic-tricks-in-85-minutes-1550078.html

WASHINGTON — Marty Hahne’s magic tricks don’t work in Washington.

Hahne is the Springfield, Mo.-area magician who became a media sensation a few years ago, when The Washington Post wrote about an obscure federal rule that required him to have a license and disaster plan for his rabbit, Casey, the furry star of his children’s magic shows.

The reaction was wondrous — at first.

The secretary of Agriculture quashed the disaster plan requirement immediately after the Post’s story was posted online. And by early 2014, lawmakers in Congress had directed the Agriculture Department to craft an exemption to the rules, so that Hahne and other magicians no longer had to submit to surprise federal bunny inspections and other silliness.

Nearly three years later, though, those political edicts seem like hocus pocus to Hahne, a.k.a. “Marty the Magician.”.. Read more..

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/14/magician-feels-tricked-lack-revised-rabbit-rule/95439070/

The Las Vegas home of entertainer Penn Jillette, known as the talkative half of the Penn & Teller magic duo, has sold for $1.88 million.

Nicknamed ‘The Slammer,’ the colorful compound on about nine acres was originally built in 1982 and later expanded by Jillette during his two-plus decades of ownership. “It’s the house of a 12-year-old with a lot of money,” Jillette said of the compound, which features a mix of bright neon hues and multicolored grass, in a 2004 interview with USA Today.

Surrounded by concrete walls, the fantastical property also has a 14-seat movie theater, a recording studio, seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms in more than 7,900 square feet of living space. Cheetah print carpeting and brightly colored walls are among the interior details. Read more..

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-penn-jillette-las-vegas-20161215-story.html