CHICAGO (WLS) -- People are finding ways to reinvent themselves today as old pre-coronavirus methods no longer work. Since New Year's Eve 2011, guests have been mesmerized at the Magic Parlour, inside ...

SAUERKRAUT TO BRING GOOD LUCK IN THE NEW YEAR. IN YORK, SOME CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SOME MAGIC TRICKS TODAY. IT’S ALL A PART OF THE THERAPY IS MAGIC SPECIAL NEEDS ...

In anticipation of her new book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert has launched a new podcast called "Magic Lessons." Guests include creatives and experts, and Gilbert's ...

In "Magic Lessons" (Simon & Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS), a prequel to "Practical Magic" and "The Rules of Magic," author Alice Hoffman tells the story of the origins of the Owens family's ...

Professional magician John Milner tells us about sawing women in half, Harry Potter and why he's teaching magic to a new generation. John Milner has been a professional magician for over 40 years, ...

It was a time of epidemics, magical thinking, fearmongering, violence, vengeance, and the demonization of women who dare to speak out. In a novel with eerie parallels to the present day, Alice Hoffman ...

Alice Hoffman has written more than two dozen books, but her tales about the sorcery of the Owens sisters and their ilk (1995’s Practical Magic and 2017’s The Rules of Magic) remain her most enduring.

Given her practical nature, it seems ironic that novelist Alice Hoffman sprinkles magical realism through most of her novels. There’s an abundance of it in her new “Magic Lessons,” the prequel to 1995 ...

Children should be taught magic tricks in schools to boost their confidence and self-discipline, researchers say. A study found that an hour lesson at a 'magic school' did more good for a group of 10 ...