Archive for the 'Magician Feature' Category

Magic Babe Ning’s Controversial Escape Stunt Teases World Record Illusion Act

Inside Magic Favorite ‘Magic Babe’ Ning Cai literally elevated the risk level of her renown straight jacket escape last weekend.
Miss Ning is famous for her signature Straight Jacket Striptease routine.  She describes the act as “Harry Houdini meets the Pussy Cat Dolls.”
Her most recent presentation, however, moved from tease to terrifying. 
Inversion saw her [...]

Cannon’s Great Escapist Fuel

There are very few in our society who receive and devour magazines and catalogs featuring the very latest in leather tethers, handcuffs, stocks, chains, and leg irons without making it on some government list.
Magicians and legitimate law enforcement are about the only folks who have an excuse for this interest.
We don’t pass judgment on the [...]

The Girl with Magic Fingers

She is just 17-years-old but has powers to bring life to inanimate objects.
In an article titled “The Girl with Magic Fingers,” Aarthi Mangala JM is profiled on The New Indian Express today.
“A small figurine of a boy, legs and arms stick-thin and spread out, rest in peace in magician Aarthi Mangala JM’s humid hands.  She [...]

Houdini: A Case Study in Trauma

The May 21, 2009 on-line edition of the journal Advance for LPNs features Cynthia Blank Reid captivating review of the ultimately unsuccessful trauma treatment administered Harry Houdini.
Ms. Reid approaches the Houdini case not as a magic historian or Houdini enthusiast.  Her expertise is in medical miracles.  She works as a trauma clinical nurse specialist in [...]

Curtis Lovell and Tony Curtis Live

We must have seen the movie more than any other,  save The Wizard of Oz.
Tony Curtis’ portrayal of Harry Houdini in the classic 1953 story of the great magician’s life and death was more than inspiring — it was perspiring.
After seeing the film for the first time, we tried every escape an eight-year-old can create.  [...]