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Son of Mandrake the Magician saddened after ‘magical house’ destroyed by fire…

Son of Mandrake the Magician saddened after ‘magical house’ destroyed by fire…

The son of the famous late local magician Leon Mandrake says he was saddened to learn his old family house — including its secret rooms and passages — had been destroyed by fire.

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The home, located on the corner of Grosvenor Road and Kindersley Drive in Surrey, B.C., went up in flames early Sunday morning.

“It was a very magical house — and a very happy home for a very long time,” said Lon Mandrake, whose father Leon was a renowned magician and illusionist who lived in the house until his death in 1993. Read more and watch videos..

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mandrake-magician-son-magical-house-1.3739240

Neil Patrick Harris signs lease for nightlife venue..

Neil Patrick Harris signs lease for nightlife venue..

Magic will happen.

A formal lease has finally been inked for a magic- and culinary-filled event space along Midtown Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row being curated and produced by Neil Patrick Harris — in collaboration with the producers of events that include “Queen of the Night,” The Post has learned.

Broker Alex Picken of Picken Real Estate confirmed a 20-year lease was signed for the new nightlife concept at 311 W. 57th St. that will encompass the three-story, 13,000-square-foot former Providence club.

The aggregated rental will exceed $22 million for the entire term. Read more…

http://nypost.com/2016/08/12/neil-patrick-harris-signs-lease-for-nightlife-venue/

Will Houstoun: Magicians don’t think imitation is sincerest form of flattery..

Will Houstoun: Magicians don’t think imitation is sincerest form of flattery..

Will Houstoun is a writer, editor, magician and consultant. He has a PhD in Victorian conjuring and is the current literary fellow at the Academy of Magic Arts, Los Angeles. 

If there is one thing I have learned in more than a decade working as a conjurer, it is that coming up with a good magic trick is really hard. The process fundamentally involves doing two things. First, you create the effect, what the audience will see. Obviously this must be something impossible, but that is just the starting point. Impossibility should be taken for granted, the thing you create must do something more. Having chosen an interesting impossibility, you must then work out how to make it happen in a way that is undetectable to an audience. Even after doing both of these things you will still have little to show for your effort, beyond a few scribbles in a notebook. It takes a huge amount more time and effort to produce something that is ready for performance.

And that’s just for one trick….  Read more

https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2016/will-houstoun-magicians-dont-think-imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-flattery/