April 2025
Welcome!
It’s no April Fools here. We have another full line up of links, links, and more links to go with your April 2025 Genii. In addition to enjoying the dual interview this month’s The Genii Speak video column, here’s a chance for YOU to get involved with Genii. We have been nominated by the World Championship of Online Magic, part of FISM 2025 Special Awards program, as Best Online Magic Magazine! Follow the link to cast your vote!
Jim Steinmeyer: The Genii Speak
- WATCH: Jim Steinmeyer sits down with magicians Laurence “Abel” Gibbons and Jason England
- READ: Matt Baker’s tribute to his friend, and ours, Ginny Aronson (1947-2025)
- VOTE: Genii Magazine for Best Online Magic Magazine
The Eye
- VISIT: The Warburg Institute’s Tarot—Origins & Afterlives exhibit website
- READ: New York Times article on Tarot—Origins & Afterlives
- VISIT: Steve Cohen’s Chamber Magic website
- READ: The Guardian‘s review of Love Life
- WATCH and LISTEN: YouTube video of song “This is the Life” from Love Life
- WATCH: Video of behind the scenes at Love Life
- WATCH: Peacock’s SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night (subscription required)
- WATCH: Trailer for Shout! Factor’s Marathon of Magic
- WATCH: Shout! Factory streaming platform (no subscription required)
- READ: The Magic Circle competitions and awards
- LISTEN: CBC’s Ideas podcast: “The Amazing Henry Box Brown”
- READ: CBC’s article on Henry Box Brown
Covent Garden Street Magicians
- WATCH: Jim Steinmeyer interview with Laurence “Abel” Gibbons talk about performing on the Covent Garden cobblestones (excerpt from Genii Speak)
- WATCH: Kane & Abel performing both on stage and on the street
FISM 2025, Street Magic
Thimblerig: America’s Gambler Jason England sheds light on the influence of Jonathan Green on magic
- WATCH: Jason England talk about the impact Jonathan Green, the reformed gambler, has made on sleight-of-hand as we know it today (excerpt from Genii Speak)
- READ: Jonathan Harrington Green’s book An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling
Voices, Krystyn Lambert
Inventing Magic with Blake Vogt and Dan White
In Practice, The Elbaum “Pop” Move by Adam Elbaum
- WATCH: Adam Elbaum demonstrate the “pop” move in three scenarios as described in Ambitious Card this month
In Practice, 1-3+2=0
- WATCH: Ricardo Rodríguez’s version of 1−3+2=0 that inspires this month’s article by Roberto Mansilla
Who’s Performing at The Magic Castle?
- VISIT: Now Appearing
The Loft
Marketplace
Workshop, When Words Bridge Worlds
Perspectives, Ben Winn
ADVERTISER INDEX
- FISM Italy 2025
- Illuminati Magic
- International Brotherhood of Magicians
- Kaufman and Company
- MAGIC Live
- Magic Stars Studio
- Magicana, The Book (Charlie Miller)
- Magicpedia
- Magikraft
- McBride’s Magic & Mystery School
- Nielsen Magic
- Potter & Potter Auctions
- Rings-N-Things Magic
- Society of American Magicians
- The Disclaimer
- The Magic Circle
- The Magician’s Wife Podcast
- The Rhapsody Theater
- Theory and Art of Press Magic
- Trickshop