Bill Cook grew up in Glenview and now lives in Prospect Heights. He has loved magic since he was a kid. In high school, Cook did magic and hung out at PJ's Trick Shop. A customer asked him to do magic ...

The exploits of any paranormal detective — from Sherlock Holmes to Scooby-Doo — will tell you that the mysterious and the magical always have an explanation grounded in science. (Take the Victorian ...

Pulling a rabbit from a top hat. Teleporting from one cage to another. Finding a coin behind a five-year-old’s ear. Magic has long inspired a sense of awe and wonder, but one portion of the population ...

Sleight of hand expert Ben Seidman is back with Vanity Fair once again to review more sleight of hand tricks, pickpocketing and psychological magic in films including 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of ...

SCOTIA, NY -- It seems the trick to getting out of a traffic ticket is knowing a little bit of magic. At least, that may be how Steven Brundage got out of a ticket when he was pulled over in upstate ...

Pete Sciarrino was a shy kid growing up. He struggled to interact with others. Then, his uncle taught him magic when he was 5 years old. The now 19-year-old Poway resident came out of his shell by ...

HIAWATHA — “When I was 70, if you’d said, ‘You’re going to open up a magic shop,’ I would’ve said you’re crazy,” Marlin, now 72, said one recent afternoon. “Why would I do such a thing? “But here I am ...

A matchstick and a handkerchief drew Mac King into the world of magic when he was just 5 years old. It was a simple trick, shown to him by his grandfather back home in Kentucky, but it ignited what ...

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Learn the self-working card trick that even fooled Albert Einstein—an easy illusion where you predict how many cards are in a ...