If you’re like most Filipino magicians—I am like most Filipino magicians—you must have gone into magic by way of close-up tricks. I bet your first trick was a card trick.  Or a coin trick.  If not the Ball-and-Vase trick. Close-up magic is the portal to the amazing world of magic. It...

I took two days holidays last week to attend the FOWA Dublin conference and thought I’d contribute to the wealth of blog posts on this event: Ryan Carson gave a very practical, actionable talk about starting a small web business. A terrific start to the event and well worth listening too. If n...

FOR ALMOST A DECADE THE SAINT, A DANCE CLUB IN MANHATTAN’S LOWER EAST SIDE, WAS HOME TO SOME OF THE MOST EXTRAVANGANT AND DECADENT PARTIES IN NEW YORK. IT WAS WHEN HOUSE MUSIC REVOLUTIONIZED THE GAY SCENE, TURNING DISCO NIGHTS INTO SEXUALLY LOADED EVENTS WITH THOUSANDS OF HOT AND SWEATY BODIES MOV...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Back from a week in Las Vegas and the 2009 Digital Signage Expo, I'm struggling to find a way to summarize what I saw, heard and experienced that won't just be a rehash of what so many others have done across the web already. Sure, there were lots of great conferences and presentations. And there we...

As of today, 101 members of the 111th Congress of the United States have the dubious dishonor of not having introduced a single bill for consideration. Let me be clear about what I mean by this. When I last reported on inactivity in the Congress two weeks ago, someone (a staffer?) gave me a hard tim...

If you listed all the absurdly gay European magicians who’ve been mauled by tigers, Siegfried and Roy would definitely be near the top of that list. But never let it said that Siegfried and Roy don’t have the ability to forgive. On Saturday Siegfried and Roy gave what was billed as their...

Who doesn’t like space vampires? Tetro : starring Vincent Gallo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Will Drew Barrymore direct the third Twilight film, Eclipse?! NO! Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston still pretending to like each other. Keep Reading. Keep Reading. Keep Reading. Keep Reading. ...

Even when it went "street", and then post-racial with David Blaine, you never got many assimilateds picking your card out the deck, or pulling colored tissue-paper from the ol' esophagus. I guess history (or a late 90s Def Jam comedian) would say we were too busy making your shit disappear, like, fo...