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WATCH: Manchester’s answer to street magician Dynamo is a hit with city’s shoppers..

WATCH: Manchester’s answer to street magician Dynamo is a hit with city’s shoppers..

By Emma Flanagan for the Manchester Evening News..

Just like that! This teenage magician has been wowing crowds in Manchester city centre and at charity events, but now the trickster will be dazzling audiences in London after pulling a top award out of the hat.

Dominic Hughes, 17, who performs his magic under the stage name Dominic Anthony, started learning his tricks two years ago, after seeing his grandad perform a few card tricks. The college student, from Boothstown in Salford, will now be heading to London this summer to take part in workshops hosted by Ben Hamlin, the magician and host of ITV 4 show Tricked.

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Up, close and magical..

Up, close and magical..

By Anand Holla for the Gulf Times

There’s a new illusionist in town and he is out to dazzle you. From Spain’s tourist haven Benidorm in Alicante, illusionist Javier Saba recently moved to Doha and is already a hit in the city’s events and party circuit.

Ripe with 12 years of experience performing cool, close-up magic (also called micromagic, it’s performed with small objects in an intimate setting) all across Europe and Spain, Saba is now testing Doha’s waters to launch his stint in the Middle East.

“All the tricks I pull off are stunning,” Saba says, without mincing words, “If I realise that even one of the tricks I do is not good enough for someone, I won’t perform it again. You must be awesome in performing every trick and only then can you make people see the impossible.”

Sometime in 2002, Saba’s mind embraced magic. “I had a magician friend who always tried out his tricks on me and my friends, until one day he did something that impressed me beyond limits and made me want to learn magic,” Saba recalls. That ruse was what is popularly known as the Voodoo ash trick — a card trick that ends with ashes forming the chosen card’s number and shape on one’s arm…

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Sheer Illusion: Kenrick ‘ICE’ McDonald To Preside Over The Society of American Magicians (Watch)..

Sheer Illusion: Kenrick ‘ICE’ McDonald To Preside Over The Society of American Magicians (Watch)..

Written by DeBorah B. Pryor for ThisNthat..

*Wow! This is huge. It’s one thing to be recognized by people around the globe because you’ve built a reputation backed by talent, skill and a great work ethic. But it is quite another to be singled out and chosen by The Society of American Magicians (S.A.M.), the 112-year-old organization that at one time had legendary magician Harry Houdini in the role you will now hold.

Talking about filling some big shoes.

As master illusionist Kenrick ‘ICE’ McDonald prepares to step into the role of the organizations’ National President, he also realizes that he is making history as the first African American to do so.

But he is way too busy to gloat over this. …

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