The Quad-City
Times reports on an innovative magic show themed perfectly for the 35th
Anniversary of Earth Day. The magician’s name is Steve Trash.
Really.
Steve Trash’s legal name is, in fact, Steve Trash. What a perfect name for a
magician gaining so much attention for the cause of recycling. Mr. Trash
performed for more than 3,000 school children during two performances in the
beautiful Capitol Theatre in Davenport, IA.
Using the magic words, “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” the kids were able to help
Mr. Trash perform his miracles. The paper describes Mr. Trash as: “a fast talker
with a quick wit and dressed like a hobo.”
He is apparently not concerned by those who might be hobophobic.
Mr. Trash’s use of garbage not only demonstrates the amount of refuse created
by the typical American each day.
He pulled from the trash a container of glue wearing a Superman cape
(?Super Glue,? he called it), a rotten potato dressed like a Star Wars action
figure (?Darth Tater,? he joked) and other items which elicited laughs from the
children.
Mr. Trash worked for several years on the streets of New York, Los Angeles,
and Tokyo. ?There was so much trash and garbage everywhere I just naturally went
into it. I?m teaching kids about the value and importance of recycling through a
magic show. Scott County is a cool place because it has curbside recycling.?
This special Earth Day show got its message across. The paper noted,
“eight-year-old Bethany King said she enjoyed watching the flying tennis ball
but also heard Trash?s message loud and clear.’ We shouldn?t litter and things
should be reused so we don?t have to make more.’”
The Sutton (UK) Guardian has a very nice article in this afternoon’s edition documenting a parent’s appreciation for the medical staff who cared so well for his premature daughter.
Theo the Magician, a/k/a Theo Theodoris, used his magical talent to raise money to benefit the St. Helier Hospital staff responsible for saving his premature baby, Elena.
Mr. Theodoris’ daughter was born ten weeks premature and weighed only two pounds in early 2001. The staff of the neo-natal unit administered around-the-clock care for almost three months before she was released to go home.
The paper noted:
“The quality treatment given to Elena by the unit’s doctors and nurses impressed the magician so much he has now raised more than ?4,500 to help buy specialist equipment. On Thursday, April 7, the 38-year-old presented them with a further ?310 raised through a tennis competition at Cheamfields Tennis Club and magic presentation at local Rotary and Inner Wheel clubs.”
Miss Theodoris is now a healthy three-year-old thanks to the medical staff and her family’s care.
Congratulations to Mr. Theodoris and his family. Thank you to the St. Helier Hospital. What a classy move and a wonderful story.
Check out Mr. Theodoris’ website for information about this incredible magician.
The Sutton (UK) Guardian has a very nice article in this afternoon’s edition documenting a parent’s appreciation for the medical staff who cared so well for his premature daughter.
Theo the Magician, a/k/a Theo Theodoris, used his magical talent to raise money to benefit the St. Helier Hospital staff responsible for saving his premature baby, Elena.
Mr. Theodoris’ daughter was born ten weeks premature and weighed only two pounds in early 2001. The staff of the neo-natal unit administered around-the-clock care for almost three months before she was released to go home.
The paper noted:
“The quality treatment given to Elena by the unit’s doctors and nurses impressed the magician so much he has now raised more than ?4,500 to help buy specialist equipment. On Thursday, April 7, the 38-year-old presented them with a further ?310 raised through a tennis competition at Cheamfields Tennis Club and magic presentation at local Rotary and Inner Wheel clubs.”
Miss Theodoris is now a healthy three-year-old thanks to the medical staff and her family’s care.
Congratulations to Mr. Theodoris and his family. Thank you to the St. Helier Hospital. What a classy move and a wonderful story.
Check out Mr. Theodoris’ website for information about this incredible magician.
Both Variety and Multichannel News are reporting this morning Criss Angel is an essential part of A&E’s effort to attract younger viewers.
A&E has purchased 13 of the one-hour episodes starring Criss Angel in what the network describes as “a 360-degree look at the life, work and performances of this very telegenic man. Here, we?re adding a performance element that will blow your mind to the cinema verit? approach we?ve taken with our other docusoaps.?
We had heard rumors of this series but this is the first time A&E has confirmed the purchase and intention to air the show.
Mr. Angel’s show is set to begin in July to join “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” and “Growing Up Gotti.” Network spokesfolk will roll-out their plans at Thursday’s important Advertiser Upfront (a presentation by networks to entice sponsors to pre-buy commercial time). The presentation for ad-buyers will be held at the skating rink at New York’s Rockefeller Center.
The network proclaimed Criss Angel as the ?master illusionist working today.” The illusionist is expected to appear and perform at the Upfront this evening.
With Mr. Angel on-board, A&E intends to become a top-five service for delivering adults ages 18-49 and 25-54 by the end of 2006. If successful, this would lower A&E’s median-age viewer by ten years.
Master Toddy, a martial arts instructor, has posted photos of Mr. Angel filming stunts for the new show.
The network has options to purchase additional episodes of the show.
We’ll keep you up-to-date on the buzz and, we hope, the behind-the-scenes info.
Good luck to Mr. Angel and two of our friends who will appear in the series.
New City Chicago has a great piece titled “The Magical City: A New Generation of Magicians Mesmerize Chicago” in this weeks edition.
The article’s thesis that Chicago was once and will again be “a magical city” is supported by its review of the town’s historical and current love for the art.
Fifty years ago, Chicago was a magical city. Literally. It was the bustling center of magic in the United States and the unlikely birthplace of what would become known as close-up magic, in which magicians would mesmerize and mystify viewers in lounges and restaurants, stepping off the stage and right up next to their captivated spectators.
Home to many magic bars and numerous restaurants that featured magical performances nightly, not to mention a plethora of downtown magic shops that were located within blocks of one another, there was definitely magic in the Windy City air.
Magic hasn’t passed on, though. It is not relegated to “simple, sleight-of-hand tricks that often incorporate playing cards, rubber balls and paper cups, linking rings or–most notably–rabbits being heaved out of hats much too small to hold them and the shouting of nonsensical words like ‘Abracadabra!’”
The author credits magicians and the audiences who love them for keeping the flame of magic alive. Magic in the Windy City is not simply “a quirky form of entertainment that’s best left to kids’ birthday parties.”
Mr. Burger recalls the old days, when “there were nightclubs and the hotels like the Hilton and Palmer House that had shows all the time. There were many magicians in town that would come to perform at these shows. Then, people started moving to the suburbs and things all changed.”
(By the way, if you haven’t checked out Mr. Burger’s website, do yourself a favor and do it now. His essays are outstanding. We really enjoyed Brief Meetings with Gifts that Last Forever. Our sister seminary in Evanston, Illinois was one of the many homes for the theologian and great thinker, Alan Watts. Mr. Burger observed Mr. Watts truly enjoyed being “Alan Watts” and took this revelation as a gift from the meeting.)
The tradition of the Chicago magic Roundtable is again returning to support the magic community in the city. David Parr, magician and co-host of the revitalized gathering held the last Thursday of every month, notes magicians may perform in the… Continue reading Magic Never Died in Chicago
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