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Smart, sassy, spicy ... a wily meshuggenah MOT, the frabrulous Rachel Wax appears on our cover this month. Interviewed by Krystyn Lambert, Ms. Wax is her true self, no small accomplishment for someone so young.
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, we visit another new magic venue. This one, Kanpai Magic, has empty boxes of sake on a bare stage as the backdrop for some of New York’s finest magicians including, you guessed it, Alex Boyce and … Rachel Wax! A mindreader you are. Brought to us by Hal Shulman.
Thought you could escape from some mad magi divining into which seat your derriere will descend? Get back in the hot seat with Jim Steinmeyer and a new version of the Chair Test in this month’s installment of “Conjuring.”
David Regal does a mushy trick with the signatures of two lovey-doveys in “Material Concessions.”
“We control the horizontal; we control the vertical,” Krystyn Lambert wants you to seek full control of your mind and soul—on stage—in “Stage as Studio.”
Jonathan Friedman stumbles across a fab new idea with paper money that is immediately out of the question in countries with those damn plastic bills—so yell yeehaw for the good ‘ole U.S.A. where we still use paper money in this month’s “WWPD.” The trick is HISTORIC!
Creepy little dudes come rappelling down onto your close-up pad and engage in a Black-Ops Ace Assembly courtesy of John “Don’t Ask Me Who I Work For” Bannon in “Dealing with It.”
Jon Racherbaumer raises the dead with a previously-unpublished and really-quite-good easy-to-do card effect from the ghost of cigar-chomping Ed Marlo in “Exhumations.”
Jamy Ian Swiss steps into a Twilight-Zoned coincidence bordering on a nightmare when he describes yet a second trick involving the signatures of a lovey-dovey couple, this one by Prakash Puru, in “Magicana.”
“Ace” … er, Vanessa, Armstrong, our intrepid reporter who seeks out interesting tidbits from around the globe for “The Eye,” continues her diligent efforts this month. You might think she sits behind a keyboard in California, but in reality she is traveling almost continuously to the furthermost regions of the five continents solely in search of news for Genii. Ahem.