Magic Johnson was once a no-look pass and a bright grin. He was once a showman. Now he is a spokesman. He can rattle off a statistic — the leading cause of death among black women in the New York ...

In the late 1940s, around the time of the death of vaudeville and the birth of television, a young war veteran with a showman's sensibility went shopping for an elephant. Lee Grabel had a plan for the ...

Wandering the aisles of a Melbourne library, a young Paul Cosentino spied a book that would transform his life. "I was a very reluctant reader and was struggling at school, so the library was the last ...

As the seventh generation of his family to make a living as a potter, Sebastiano Maglio of East Dundee turned lumps of clay into vases, bowls, bottles, plates, pitchers, candleholders, boxes, ...

Let’s talk about magic. Not the supernatural or the fantastically unexplainable, but rather the craft of prestidigitation. Putting on a magic show is an art, a skill, an amusement — for some a career ...

GALLOWAY — Magicians Michael DuBois and Viktoria Grimmy aim to mystify and delight the audience at Stockton University’s Performing Arts Center’s main stage at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11. “The ...

In holdover news that has little to do with the Oscars, the lack of new releases helped the older hits and the Oscar contenders maintain their legs for at least one more weekend. It will be ...

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