Sunday, February 27th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
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| Campers Fight Over Proper Double Lift |
We received great news from our friend Rick Fisher at FAB Magic in Colon, Michigan.
As you know, FAB has some great events planned for Magic Week (August 2nd through August 6th) this year including contests, lectures, shows, and auctions. FAB and Abbott?s have truly made magic in Colon special once again.
Well, now, Mr. Fisher has added another great event for an already great week.
FAB is sponsoring a Mini Magic Camp for juniors under the age of 18 on Friday and Saturday, the 6th and the 7th. The program will teach campers magic, juggling, ventriloquism, the proper handling of animals in magic, and routining.
If you or your child is under 10, you must be accompanied by an adult. The price is $20.00 per day or both days for $35.00. The accompanying adult price is just $10.00 per day.
Campers will have a chance to meet and learn from the best. We understand that the registrations are going quickly and there are a limited number of slots available.
If you are interested of know of someone who might be, direct them to FAB Magic at
www.fabmagic.com <http://www.fabmagic.com> or call 877.44.MAGIK.
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
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| Campers Fight Over Proper Double Lift |
We received great news from our friend Rick Fisher at FAB Magic in Colon, Michigan.
As you know, FAB has some great events planned for Magic Week (August 2nd through August 6th) this year including contests, lectures, shows, and auctions. FAB and Abbott?s have truly made magic in Colon special once again.
Well, now, Mr. Fisher has added another great event for an already great week.
FAB is sponsoring a Mini Magic Camp for juniors under the age of 18 on Friday and Saturday, the 6th and the 7th. The program will teach campers magic, juggling, ventriloquism, the proper handling of animals in magic, and routining.
If you or your child is under 10, you must be accompanied by an adult. The price is $20.00 per day or both days for $35.00. The accompanying adult price is just $10.00 per day.
Campers will have a chance to meet and learn from the best. We understand that the registrations are going quickly and there are a limited number of slots available.
If you are interested of know of someone who might be, direct them to FAB Magic at
www.fabmagic.com <http://www.fabmagic.com> or call 877.44.MAGIK.
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
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| Warm Smiles We Recall |
Like Jimmy Stewart running through the streets of Bedford Falls after he learns that he no longer existed, we drove through the streets of our old haunts here in Florida to find the world had changed. It became hard. Where there were once friendly shops offering wares appropriate for children, there were now tattered holes and kiosks selling services from tattoos to piercing to porn.
Where we once took refuge after magic meetings, we now found bars where women will join a customer for a bottle of $125.00 champagne and “have personal party.” In the same way the article is missing from the advertisement, the class is gone from the neighborhood we once called home.
South Florida is no longer the southern portion of a southern state visited seasonally by those from colder climes. Our old high school and its theater have been fenced-off but not destroyed. Like a caged animal, the home of the Rams is now just an exhibition of urban blight. The funds ran out before the buildings could be destroyed but not until the garish chain link fence circled the campus.
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Unlike Jimmy Stewart’s run through Bedford Falls, there is no happy ending to this story. There is no realization to which we may come sufficient to bring back the neighborhood we once knew. The magic shops we visited, loitered around, learned from, and spent our newspaper money in, are gone. The mall that contained the newest magic kiosk responsible for taking the business from the institution that was Johnny’s Playland and Trickshop, is itself a victim of newer malls. Where young men, learning at the right hand of the talented Barry Gibbs, once walked their invisible dogs to drum up business, police officers now circulate to decrease the threat of gangs.
Everything changes. We know nothing is permanent. Our memories of the area will always exist even though the…
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