Last summer, I talked with reporter Kyle Swenson about psychic con artists in south Florida, including Rose Marks who (with her family) scammed victims out of millions of dollars. Two months later, Marks was convicted of various crimes, and this week, she was sentenced to a decade in jail. As my friend Jamy Ian Swiss […]
I have added another title to my Movies You Might Not Know list: “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay.” Jay is one of just a few magicians whose work I have admired for many years. He is a master manipulator, both of cards and an audience, with patter so perfectly chosen that […]
From my Twitter feed… No matter how badly you’ve run at the casino, at least you haven’t lost a BILLION dollars, like this former SD mayor. Here’s why you were fooled by magicians doing the Cups and Balls, even if they were Penn & Teller.
For years, James Randi has offered a large cash prize to anyone who can prove psychic or paranormal ability. Naturally, the well-known con artists who make their living via these claims will never step forward to be tested, because they know they’ll fail and be exposed. However, there is still a large number of people […]
Two teams of magicians are each given an hour to create some tricks with four simple items.
This is the best tourism promotion I’ve ever seen, performed by two magicians using seven iPads at an international real estate expo in Cannes. Sure makes me want to go to Sweden…