Weekly Round-Up
by SCOTT WELLS
September 8, 2008

Howdy friends.  I seemed to have overlooked an important announcement last week. Our own Rachael Dunn took top honors at the T.A.O.M. convention in the Junior Stage Category.  Way to go, Rachael! Dal Sanders will be our guest lecturer visiting Houston this week and Steve Daly will return again later this month to Houston for another appearance at a local club. We are also preparing for a joint benefit with Camp For All with two public performances slated for September 28th. Other activities continue to make Houston a magical place. (Read More...)

British Ring's 72nd Convention.  And what a Convention it is going to be! If it were possible to solicit an opinion of this years Convention from those 92 pioneering magicians who gathered at Charlton Kings Cheltenham in 1931 inaugurating the very first British Ring Convention we would predict it to be one word...... unbelievable. (read more )

Magic Gives Back
by Mel Kientz
September, 2008

MagiCares^TM  - When Magic Cares, Miracles Happen. An international non-profit charitable organization that allows the magic community, no matter where a person lives in the world, to give a little something back through their art to those that are less fortunate.  The organization is structured to use magic and other related art forms to benefit lives through our unique, closely knit and international network of performers, enthusiasts and fans. (read more)

The Angel in Las Vegas
September, 2008
by Lincoln Rings

September 26th, 2008, is the NEW date set for Cirque du Soleil's CRISS ANGEL - BELIEVE show at the Las Vegas Luxor Hotel.  This is the second time that the opening previews have been pushed back -- this time an additional two weeks. Anita Nelving, a spokesperson for the production company, explained, "There are intricate illusions involved where elements just can't be worked out within a standard show preview schedule. This is the first time we've created a show of magic illusion and we underestimated the amount of time we needed." (read more)

No Convention Romance
in the U.K.
by Foreign Correspondent,
Lincoln Rings

The magic community in jolly ole England is a buzz with thoughts of jinxs, curses and spells the like of which has not been seen since Alastor Moody flit the Avada Kedavra in Goblet of Fire. It seems that Collin Richardson and Geoff Pescud, in a story tipped by The Times, have grown bored with the legendary Blackpool magic gathering to start their own magic convention three weeks prior the rival event next February. (read more)