Creative Downtown Appleton Inc. wants to erect a state historical marker honoring Harry Houdini's connection to the city.

An MI6 codebreaker is found dead inside a locked bag in his own apartment—with no signs of struggle. Experts admit: “Even Houdini couldn’t have done it.” Was it an accident, an experiment… or a ...

A single illusion takes on outsized intrigue because it managed to deceive one of magic’s most famous skeptics. The video revisits the performance step by step, focusing on the subtle choices that ...

A celebrated magician and illusionist who perished on stage in a devastating fire in Edinburgh is to be honoured in a new stage show which will be launched in the modern incarnation of the venue more ...

Performances are now underway  for Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play, The Fear of 13, starring  two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe Award nominee Tessa Thompson. Meet the cast here ...

A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can ...

Creative Downtown Appleton Inc. has been seeking approval to install an official Wisconsin Historical Marker on the south side of Houdini Plaza, near the Houdin ...

For most of the season, St. Norbert College has looked like one of the top teams in Division III hockey, currently ranked No.

Spirtualists often tried to conjure the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. Harry Houdini set out to expose them. And Brad Ricca wrote about it all.

Ryan Gosling wanted a friend. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were in the midst of their largest production ever, the ...

The Newcastle Fringe Festival - a celebration of the weird and funny, theatrically obscure, musical and elegant - took over ...

The 82-year-old - who was a smoker from the age of nine onwards but transitioned to vaping in recent years - revealed in December that he was undergoing surgery to remove a cancer ...