June 2025
Welcome!
So much magic to include this month on our Links page for you! We’re also excited about the new digital Genii experience that’s coming soon. More on that next month. Oh, and don’t forget—you can still vote! Genii has 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 chats with Genii‘s editor at large, Chloe Olewitz, about her feature this month about the complicated role of being an ASL inpterpreter and how it intersects with magic
- VOTE: Genii for Best Online Magic Magazine
- MORE: Learn about the American Museum of Magic. This organization granted us permission to use an Irving Desfor photo of Jay Marshall (and the ears of Lefty) for the cover of the June 2025 issue.
The Eye
- LISTEN: BBC’s “Masters of the Impossible” episode on Archive Hour, with Prof. Richard Wiseman discussing the long history of mentalism and some of its greatest practitioners, including the one and only, David Berglas
- MORE: Learn more about the amazing David Berglas and find out why “Nothing is Impossible”
- READ: News about Now You See Me 4 In the Works with Ruben Fleischer, and the third film coming out this fall
- WATCH: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, the franchise’s third film trailer
- WATCH: Champions of Magic stun Today show anchors with a modern version of a Houdini-esque escape
- VISIT: Visit the Champions of Magic site to learn more about the tour and how to buy tickets
- FOLLOW: Champions of Magic on Instagram
- VISIT: Spectral Science exhibition at the USC downtown LA Campus; you can register as a USC visitor here
- READ: Block Club Chicago article about Cosmic Underground Theater’s Magic Shows and Classes in Chicago
- VISIT: Cosmic Underground Theater for show schedule and to buy tickets
- FOLLOW: Comic Underground Theater on Instagram
- READ: The Straits Times article about The Magic Bar in Singapore
- VISIT: The Magic Bar in Singapore
- FOLLOW: Singapore’s The Magic Bar on Instagram
- READ: BBC report about the mysterious Sophie Lloyd’s triumphant return to The Magic Circle
- FOLLOW: The Magic Circle on Instagram
- VISIT: Family show MAJIKA on now at Artscape Theatre in Cape Town
- MORE: Learn more about the wonderful College of Magic in South Africa
- FOLLOW: The College of Magic on Instagram
Derren Brown, Only Human
Magic Access:
Understanding the Role of the ASL Interpreter
- MEET: Magician Matt Morgan
Inventing Magic with Blake Vogt and Justin Willman
The King Thing by Adam Elbaum
The Magic Castle
The Chicago Magic Lounge
$100 Challenge
Staff Picks, White Rabbit Magic
Caught in the Spread
- WATCH: Try Dr. Matt Pritchard’s video version of this trick. A quick demonstration of his theory at work.
- FOLLOW: Dr. Matt Pritchard on Instagram
Sleightly Astonishing
Love On Your Own Terms
Coffee With… Jade
- FOLLOW: Jade on Instagram
ADVERTISER INDEX
- Dai Vernon Foundation
- FISM Italy 2025
- International Brotherhood of Magicians
- Kaufman and Company
- MAGIC Live
- Magic Stars Studio
- Magicana, The Book (Charlie Miller)
- Magic Methods
- Magicpedia
- Magikraft
- McBride’s Magic & Mystery School
- Nielsen Magic
- Patrick Page Magic Ltd.
- Plainsight Magic
- Quicker Than The Eye
- Rings-N-Things Magic
- Society of American Magicians
- The Disclaimer
- The Magic Circle
- The Magician’s Wife Podcast