magic is about honesty
everything here is true
except for the bits I made up
Thank you to everyone who took time out of their Easter long weekend to attend our sold-out performance of Magic & Martini at SpiritHouse in Toronto. Our next two shows in Toronto are already sold out. New dates will be posted in about a week, but we do have seating available in Oakville on April 20. Readers can use the secret code olive for a discount on all advance tickets booked through our website.
Here are some photos from last night's show, courtesy of Ivan Bekcic.
Tuesday night, April 3, I'll be back performing close-up magic tableside at Toronto's magic bar, The Lochkart. This is a free event to attend, although they have limited seating, so you'll want to come by early. I'll be performing from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
The drinks at this place are incredible. A surprising number of them come with marshmallows... or on fire... possibly both. If you're in Toronto Tuesday night, please come and join us!
Thank you to everyone who attended our special spring break performance of Magic & Martini at Grand Spirits. We also perform in Toronto and Oakville and the question I'm asked most often is "Where is Grand Valley?"
Well... tucked away in a gorgeous middle of nowhere inside of what looks like a school is one of my favourite spots in the world to do a magic show.
Here are some photos from our latest performance courtesy of Waled Hassansay.
Thank you to everyone who attended last night's sold out performance of Magic & Martini. It was the largest show we've ever had in Oakville and we had an incredible night. Here are a few photos of the night courtesy of Waled Hassanzay.
Our next performance at O'Finn's is Friday, April 20. Tickets are available and readers can use the code olive for a discount on the price of tickets purchased online.
Friday night, I'll be in Chilliwack, BC on the 11th Cabaret of Wonders. I'll be appearing with John Kaplan, Henry Tom, Alex Zander, Billy Hsueh and world champion magician Shawn Farquhar.
Friday, March 16, 2018
7:30 PM
Chilliwack Cultural Centre
I woke up this morning to the news that legendary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had passed away.
Hawking held an undoubtably important place in modern culture. Through his improbable battle with ALS (he was diagnosed at 21 and given two years to live) he became uniquely recognizable. "That guy in the wheelchair" brought the arcane and abstract world of cosmology to a wider audience.
I was first exposed to him in the season six finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I would have been about eight years old.
L to R, Albert Einstein, Data, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton... go figure.
My family happened to have a copy of his New York Times bestseller, A Brief History of Time, on the shelf. It was one of those books that lots of people bought but few actually read. I tried to read it and it wasn't that difficult. That book contained a lot of important lessons for a young person!
The idea that runs through the book is that the universe is explicable. Not necessarily explainED but explicABLE. (At that point our current best estimate for the age of the universe, 13.8 billion years, was still about a decade away.) While the world might be complicated, the explanations aren't forever hidden over the horizon of human knowledge. Sometimes, we actually have too many possible explanations and are waiting for a way to tell between them. He also spent most of his time talking about Black Holes and the beginning of the universe; pretty cool stuff. Once you start thinking in those terms, it's hard to turn back.
More recently, he has made guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory and had an Oscar nominated feature film about his early life on his way to his PhD, The Theory of Everything. So I hope I'm not the last generation to be inspired by his life and work.
