When Nate Leipzig passed through Ottawa Canada with his stage show, Dai Vernon, then a young teenager, would sneak backstage to learn a thing or two from the famous magician.  Leipzig’s thoughts on magic would stay with Vernon for the rest of his life.  Vernon would eventually write his…

Why hasn’t Luis Piedrahita been featured on the cover of Genii Magazine?  Why aren’t more magicians talking about him?  Like Juan Tamariz, his magic takes bizarre twists and turns.  And like Tamariz, he throws his whole being into every performance.  Watch Luis Piedrahita grab the bull by the horns and…

A great impromptu trick can elevate your status as a miracle worker.  Although the word “impromptu” suggests unprepared, we will learn how performers like Max Malini and Nate Leipzig set up their tricks long in advance. They knew the value of thinking ahead and they practiced so that everything…

Dai Vernon aka the Professor, was a complex man who could philosophize for days on the subject of magic.  He lived for nearly a century.   In that time he changed the way magicians think.  For the professor, magic was not some easy way to pass time.  No.  Being a…