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Michael Ammar Does It Again — Business Card Miracles Review

Ammar — The Man!

Michael Ammar’s Business Card Miracles in DVD format — List $34.95. Street $25.95 from Penguin Magic.

Michael Ammar is one of our favorites here at Inside Magic. His books, videos and DVDs are consistently outstanding in substance and style. But now he has tried to venture into the gray area between the world of Magic and the world of Everyday Life. It would be wonderful to be able to use the magic we?ve learned in the place where we spend most of our non-magic time.

Mr. Ammar?s latest DVD sets out to teach us magic with business cards that will make their use amazing or at least interesting as opposed to an opportunity to feel awkward with business contacts. Anyone can do a trick with their business card but so often, the effects are lacking any magic; they?re more like novelties or puzzles.

Does he meet the challenge? Should you pay good money for the DVD? Can you re-use dental floss?

(This last question was on a list I was going to ask my dentist but I thought I?d throw it in here. I?m hoping the answer is ?yes? because I?ve been doing it for a couple of months now and although the minty taste goes away, it?s still strong string and you can refresh it with toothpaste).

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December 13th, 2003 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment

Steve Dacri Innovates Again – Gets Props from Vegas Press

Steve Dacri

Steve Dacri?s new close-up show received very favorable reviews from the Las Vegas Review-Journal yesterday.(Read article here). The paper notes that unlike the big illusion shows in Vegas, it is very difficult to generate income from a close-up presentation. Mr. Dacri may just the idea.

The Review-Journal credits Mr. Dacri as ?a veteran sleight-of-hand artist who for years was a frequent performer at Caesars Magical Empire, a themed attraction that had its own small theater dedicated to close-up magic.? Now, he and his wife Jan areinnovating again byperformance ofclose-up magic in the back room of Sazio?s restaurant inside The Orleans Casino.

With the kind of questions every close-up magician hopes to hear, the paper pays its respect to the very accomplished Mr. Dacri:

“How does he get those signature foam balls — he calls them ‘Martians’ — into a person’s closed fist without that person feeling it? How did he move those silver dollars from one fist to the other?

“Don’t try to figure this out, you’ll just get a headache,” he advises his audience.”

Mr. Dacri is one of the truly good guys in Magic and has contributed so much to our Art. It?s nice to see that he?s not only still contributing with a new show format in a town that claims to have seen everything but that the town is giving him the props he deserves.

The Review-Journal finishes the positive critique thusly:

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December 13th, 2003 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment