Bernard Bilis is on the Cover of the June Issue of Genii

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Bernard Bilis is on the Cover of the June Issue of Genii

Postby Richard Kaufman » May 22nd, 2023, 2:04 pm

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The June issue of Genii, The Conjurors’ Magazine, is now live. You can subscribe to Genii today for as little as $35 worldwide, and receive not only a new issue every month but also access to every issue of Genii going back to 1936 and all 300 issues of MAGIC magazine via our app and browser service. Subscribe at http://www.geniimagazine.com
To France for our cover story on Bernard Bilis, one of the elder statesman of French card magic. With hundreds and hundreds of television appearances, and a career spanning half a century, he does extremely hard card work with ease, yet his presentations are effective and commercial. This month you’ll learn all about the man and his magic from Carl Mercurio, who also brings you three of Bilis’s most famous card routines.
We’re pleased to welcome Robert Ramirez as the new editor of “Magicana” with this issue. I’ve known Robert for quite a while and hired him to perform at the 2019 Genii Convention. He lives in Los Angeles, performs regularly at The Magic Castle, and is also one of the mediums there for the Houdini Séance. He’s and all-around talented guy who will do a great job.
Don’t let the second handling of the Spin Revealment by Ed Marlo described by Jon Racherbaumer in this month’s “Exhumations” slip past you—it uses optics for the visible change of a tabled spinning card.
There’s a particularly fine trick this month from Jonathan Friedman in “WWPD.” The title, I feel compelled to remind everyone, is “What Would Paul Do,” not “What Paul Does.” The column embodies Jonathan’s approach to card magic with a Paul Harris mindset. These are not Paul’s tricks. But Paul does have a big new book of tricks coming out either this year or next! See, the pandemic was good for something.
Jim Steinmeyer provides a bit of clever no-prop mentalism for the poet in you this month in “Conjuring.”
In “Material Concessions” Mr. Regal gets himself into a sticky wicket and vanishes a coin.
Krystyn Lambert passes along some excellent thoughts on consistency in your act in “Stage as Studio.”
In “Dealing With It” John Bannon knocks it out the park without one iota of sleight of hand in a multiple climax trick with which he’s been wowing his friends for the past few months; you have to visit “Bongo Alley.”
Teller, monkeys, Debbie McGee, and a wax cylinder containing new recordings of the world’s most famous magician’s voice—Vanessa Armstrong gathers the notable and sometimes strange in this month’s “The Eye.”
In Shawn McMaster’s coverage of The Academy of Magical Arts and the Magic Castle, he brings you the latest appearances by Dan Sperry, The Evasons, and The Sentimentalists.
The issue wraps with reviews of the latest books, videos, and tricks from Tom Frame, Bill Wells, and Tom Dobrowolski.
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