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Penn & Teller to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013
The Bad Boys of magic Penn & Teller will be forever enshrined on the Hollywood Walk of Fame come 2013. The pair are one of two stage performers who will be inducted into the Los Angeles landmark....
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Siegfried & Roy’s First Television Appearance
You know, it’s vintage Thursday today on the blog. What a window to the past this little guy is. Here is the up and coming Vegas act of Siegfried and Roy performing on an HBO special hosted by Dick...
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Las Vegas Performing Animal Regulations Debate Rekindles After Escaped Chimp...
Future big cat or monkey magic shows could be affected by new regulations if some get their way in the newest version of an old Clark County, NV debate over licensing for exotic performing animals....
View ArticleCLASSIC: Siegfried and Roy Television Appearance in 1969
Before SARMOTI, before the glitter, before the mechanical dragons. Siegfried and Roy used to be two dudes in tuxedos performing magic. An amazing look back in time.
View ArticleHow to Properly Pronounce the Names of Penn & Teller, Criss Angel, David...
We really don’t know how these started popping up. Maybe they are just a cruel trick for non-English speakers looking to brush up on pronunciation via YouTube? Are the jokes so short they’re funny?...
View ArticleWanna See Some HD Footage of Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden?
Sure, this has barely anything to do with magic but there have to be at least two big cat magicians that will appreciate some raw HD footage of some of the guests at Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden....
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Celebrate Roy Horn’s Birthday with this Classic Clip of 1970s Siegfried and Roy
He is a pioneer of stage magic. Along with his partner Siegfried, he paved the way for Las Vegas as the mecca of glitzy stage magic. After his highly publicized on-stage injury and extraordinarily...
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Siegfried and Roy Return to Munich
These days, it’s rare that Siegfried and Roy get to make their way to Germany, that is if this German-language article translated by Google is to be believed. Both are now naturalized American...
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“Dalton Wayne’s creativity is a fresh breathe of air in magic!”– Marcus Eddie
SPONSORED POST If you were a true wizard, what would you do? The incendiary, ostentatious, and masterful magician Dalton Wayne answers this question in his first compilation, Wizard. Here, you’ll find...
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War! Divorce! Starvation! The Epic Birth Story of Roy Horn
Often times children ask their parents, “Where does SARMOTI come from?” The answer is, of course, unknowable. But there are fragments we can piece together. An epic odyssey of grand illusion began, in...
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Siegfriend & Roys Residence Used as Stand In for Liberace’s House in New Movie
From the Los Angeles Times piece on the costume and location challenges for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming HBO movie “Behind the Candelabra”… Meanwhile, Cummings, who previously worked with Soderbergh...
View ArticleBelated Birthday Wishes to Siegfried
A debilitating illness kept me from posting much last week, so it is with full knowledge of my tardiness that iTricks would like to wish a happy birthday to Siegfried of Siegfried and Roy fame. Truly...
View ArticleAnd Now: A Mad Men Era TV Appearance by Siegfried and Roy
The music! Sweet baby James, listen to that amazing music! The magic ain’t bad either.
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Norm Clarke Dishes on Siegfried and Roy
This Thursday is not only Roy Horn’s birthday, it is the 10th anniversary of his tiger mauling incident. The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Norm Clarke has started a three part series, which will conclude...
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Happy Birthday Roy Horn
One half of the Masters of the Impossible is having a birthday today. Happy birthday Roy Horn! It is hard for some people to understand just how popular Siegfried and Roy were (and still are) all over...
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ET Grabs Pic of Roy Horn and Tiger
Yesterday Entertainment Tonight released a picture of Roy Horn with Montecore, the tiger that hurt him on stage 10 years ago. The picture, taken at Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden in Las Vegas,...
View ArticleFerguson Explains Magic (NSFW-ish), Manticore Passes And More [Magic Bulletin]
On Monday night, which as iTricks told you was Houdini’s 140th birthday, Craig Ferguson took a little time to explain the difference between magicians and illusionists. It is not exactly the most...
View ArticleVegas News And Misty Lee [Magic Bulletin]
It may only be September (or, as they say in German “September“) but the Hofbrauhaus in Las Vegas is already starting Oktoberfest! The video above (from KNTV) shows them kicking it off last Friday...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Roy Horn
iTricks would like to wish Roy Horn, of Siegfried and Roy, a very happy birthday. We are kicking off video Friday with footage from earlier this summer when three new (adorable) lion cubs were...
View ArticleEscapes, Roy’s B-Day, Basketball And More [Magic Bulletin]
The footage above, from KPIX in San Francisco, shows magician and escape artist Zack Mirza performing an upside down straightjacket escape last Friday over the Justin Herman Plaza. As reported last...
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