Interactive books and kits provide hands-on fun and learning for kids. The Little Box of Magic Tricks: Over 80 Tricks to Amaze Your Friends! by Janet Sacks includes eight mini-books plus assorted ...

Magic is a big part of Marvel Comics. Numerous characters wield magical powers of varying levels. Some magic users can control the elements or even change the universe. Others focus on illusions. But ...

Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. The author, Guenther Dammann, ...

Neil Patrick Harris is an actor, singer, producer, writer, father, husband and … magician? Come to find out, Harris has a couple tricks up his sleeve. He says growing up in New Mexico, he was “smitten ...

Before he started drilling through the 3-ton door of the super-secure music vault at Paisley Park, the estate of the late rock star Prince, Dave McOmie pulled out his cellphone and played a round of ...

Nearly every day, Ricky Boone's principal would page him over the loudspeaker. But Boone was never in trouble, even though all the other kids and the secretary thought he was. Boone was being saved, ...

There is a century-old magic trick that Jim Steinmeyer finds particularly fascinating. It involves a burglar, a safe, and mind-reading, and it unfolds like this: A group of random audience members ...

I created a magic trick with a balloon. You stretch out the balloon’s nozzle, rip it off, and then magically reattach it as the balloon deflates. No secret props, no extra pieces: just one balloon. I ...