Showing posts with label Monthly Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monthly Review. Show all posts

Saturday, May 1, 2021

April 2021 in review (final)

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in April. This will be my final monthly update as I think a better summery of blog content going forward will be my newsletter, WILD ABOUT HARRY WEEKLY (subscribe here).

Most Viewed Post
Deconstructing Houdini '53: Main titles

Houdini History
Collectibles

Podcasts

Movies

Other
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Thursday, April 1, 2021

March 2021 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in March. 

Most Viewed Post
Homeowner discovers Houdini posters in her walls!

Houdini History

Events


Auction

Podcasts


Other
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Monday, March 1, 2021

February 2021 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in February. 

Most Viewed Post

Houdini History

Events


Other
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Monday, February 1, 2021

January 2021 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in January. 

Most Viewed Post

Houdini History

Events

Private Collections
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Thursday, December 31, 2020

December 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in December. 

Most Viewed Post
"Like trying to chew your way into a coconut"

Houdini History




Tomorrow kicks off another year of WILD ABOUT HARRY with a post all about 1921, a year Houdini devoted himself to movie making. So hang on tight. Houdini, Howard Hillary, and Heath Haldane are on the way!


🎉 HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR🍾
Written by at 2 comments:
Tags:

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

2020 in the bag


It's time for me to take my year end break and put 2020 in the bag. While Covid made this a year most would like to forget, it was still a pretty great year for Houdini! Have a safe and happy holiday season. I will see you all in 2021 for what I expect will be a better year for the world and another WILD year for Harry.

2020 in Review:
January (29 posts)
February (25 posts)
March (27 posts)
April (29 posts)
May (29 posts)
June (25 posts)
July (29 posts)
August (23 posts)
September (30 posts)
October (31 posts)
November (27 post)

Most Viewed Post of 2020

Written by at 8 comments:
Tags: ,

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

November 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in November. 

Most Viewed Post
Ultra rare Houdini poster found at yard sale (update)

Houdini History

Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Sunday, November 1, 2020

October 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in October.

Most Viewed Post

Houdini History

Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

September 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in September. 

Most Viewed Post
Did Hardeen really discover the full view straitjacket escape?

Houdini History
Opening Mysto's coffin
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Monday, August 31, 2020

August 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in August. I'll be back to regular posting tomorrow.

Most Viewed Post
Confirmed: 'Houdini Defeats Hackenschmidt' did exist!

Houdini History
Houdini and the Omro possession
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Friday, July 31, 2020

July 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY this month.

Most Viewed Post
Relics from Houdini's 278 at auction

Houdini History
The Muller Mirror mystery key
Houdini on equality
Houdini's fabulous 4ths
The Raymund Fitzsimons play
Houdini in the mosh pit
Shooting stops for a famous visitor
"His cheek bled considerably"
First public image of Houdini's Milk Can?
Ectoplasm watch
The photo Houdini thought would fool Conan Doyle

Auctions
Houdini fiction blowout
Houdini's wagon wheel rolls away with $4,200

Books 
Houdini joins the Bold and Fearless

 Comics
Houdini on Mars
Hocus Pocus #2 conjures Houdini and Rose (and me)

 Television
Houdini on The UnXplained tonight at 9/8c
Dissecting Quincy's 'The Death Challenge'
"The escape artist is the hero. Full stop."

DVD
Pssst... Wanna buy The Grim Game on DVD?

Podcast
Transatlantic History Ramblings go Wild for Houdini

10th Anniversary
10th Anniversary: Wild about Danny

 Mystifier File
Mystifier, Winter 2002

Links
The Tatler Mirror Cuff mystery deepens
Too sexy for this blog

Misc.
The Magic Castle conjures The Houdini Box
Marvyn Roy "Mr. Electric" dies at 95
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

June 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY this month.

Most Viewed Post
Hollywood home of Bess and Edward Saint for sale

Houdini History
This is C. Dundas Slater
The Heart Is Quicker Than The Eye – the unmade Houdini biopic of 1976
Forty years ago in New Jersey
Houdini's forgotten agent: Jenie Jacobs
The Houdinis and the Doyles...take an Uber?
Climb aboard the Frisia
Houdini in 1907
Houdini's Fort Worth street feats

Events
Magic Collectors' Corner #8 - Houdini Special
Cox & Caveney Behind the Bookcase rematch!
Magic Collectors' Corner goes inside the Houdini Museum of New York

Art
Houdini returning to business
Metamorphosis sculpture reappears in Appleton

Video
Fantasma Magic presents The Eyes Of Houdini

Mystifier File
Mystifier, Summer 2002
Mystifier, Fall 2002

Links
LINK: TR vs. Houdini (History Vs. podcast)
HOUDINI on The Jewish Lives Podcast
Locking down Houdini in Kansas

10th Anniversary
10th Anniversary: Houdini re-haunts Six Flags

Misc.
May 2020 in review
Richard Sherry promises "astounding news" about the Canadian Mystery Cell
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Monday, June 1, 2020

May 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY last month.

Most Viewed Post
The 'Houdini House Pen' gets it write

 Houdini History
Houdini's Westlake leap
Houdini did not approve this message
The Siberian Transport Prison Cell escape
"Houdini's School Days"
Houdini meets DeMille
At last! Evidence of Houdini's near fatal buried alive surfaces
Houdini's Madison straitjacket escape then and now
Listen to The New School's 1977 Houdini Seance
When Douglas Geoffrey became Hardeen Jr.
The hidden meaning of Houdini's iconic suit

Books
Choosing Houdini
New Italian edition of Gibson's Houdini on Magic
Arthur Moses reprints the first Houdini & Holmes adventure

Movies
Houdini (1953) on Talking Pictures TV
Days of Thrills and Harry Houdini

Theater
Watch ETHER: The Strange Afterlife of Harry Houdini & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Auctions
Master Mystery episode 10 poster sells for $24,570

Art
Bess Houdini by Medusa Dollmaker

Events
Instagram Live event with Katherine Factor
Talking Houdini with the AMA this Thursday

Mystifier File
Mystifier, Spring 2002

 Links
LINK: The Man From Beyond in Farmington
LINK: The escape artist

10th Anniversary
10th Anniversary: Those Vanishing Elephant photos

Deaths
R.I.P. Roy Horn
Rapper who went by "Houdini" is killed in Toronto

Misc.
April 2020 in review
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Friday, May 1, 2020

April 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in April.

Most Viewed Post
Houdini and the 1918 flu pandemic

 Houdini History
Houdini under doctor's care in September 1926?
Houdini's 1923 LA Examiner straitjacket escape
Dan Cupid–Magician. A story by Harry Houdini
Machpelah of the West
Houdini's poor eyesight?
The refurbished Water Torture Cell in 1994
"The Amazing Exploits of Houdini"
A new candidate for Houdini's last photo (update)

 Terror Island Centennial
Celebrating Terror Island's 100th with the CIM
A week of Terror and SEX
Terror Island's train stunt
Theater owners review Houdini's Terror Island

Books
REVIEW: A solid and scholarly Houdini biography
Xavier Riddle Houdini book released
Patrick Culliton clarifies the price and purpose of Houdini–the Key

Biopics
Houdini (1953) released on DVD in Australia
Houdini (1953) streaming free on Pluto TV

Music & Theater
Bob Dylan name-checks Houdini in new song
Stream 'Mr. Swallow: Houdini' at Soho on Demand

Politics
Trump can't escape Houdini comparisons

Mystifier File
Mystifier, Third Quarter 2001
Mystifier, Winter 2001-2

 Links
LINK: Houdini and The Tombs
LINK: A ghost of the Gilded Age found

10th Anniversary
10 year flashback: Golden Age in bronze

Misc
Houdini enhanced by Matt Loughrey
Norm Nielsen passes away
March 2020 in review
Written by at No comments:
Tags:

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

March 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in March.

Most Viewed Post
Own an authentic brick from Houdini's 278

Houdini History
Yar, The Primeval Man by Harry Houdini (Part I)
Yar, The Primeval Man by Harry Houdini (Part II)
One last Yar
"Dr." Hardeen is in the house
Houdini on King Tut's Curse
Harry Ransom Center shares another 'Man from Beyond' poster
Houdini's 1923 San Francisco straitjacket escape in photos
Happy birthday Houdini
Houdini returns to Appleton in 1897

Auctions
Milk Can and Iron Box surprise at auction
Houdini's jock strap supports 17K at auction

Books
'Houdini: The Elusive American' released today
Listen to Houdini's 'The Right Way to Do Wrong'
'The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini' large print edition

Magazines
Houdini appears in The New Yorker and Skeptic

 Video
"Houdini Didn't Like the Spiritualists" (Official)
Salt Lake City History Minute - Harry Houdini
Houdini and the art of faking photos

Television
Houdini returns to Murdoch Mysteries

Mystifier File
Mystifier, Second Quarter 2001

 Links
Dean Carnegie dials in Houdini's Radio of 1950
Houdini's 278 now has an official website
LINK: Houdini's sensational swim in the rapids of...the Hudson?
LINK: Houdini’s Guide to Coronavirus safety

10th Anniversary
10 year flashback: Diggers Rest centennial festival

 Misc
February 2020 in review
Houdini ('53) screenings cancelled and other closures
Written by at 2 comments:
Tags:

Sunday, March 1, 2020

February 2020 in review

Here's a rundown of posts by category that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY in February.

Most Viewed Post
Canadian Mystery Cell owners revealed

Houdini History
The Houdinis are Rogers' Orpheum Stars of 1897
Ransom Center reveals stunning Houdini 3-sheet
Hardeen's secret movies for the LAPD
Fred Pittella follows Harry and Mama to Budapest
Bess Houdini died 77 years ago today
Straitjacket plus
Houdini describes his spiritualism lecture in full
Hardeen's Leap Day birthday

Auctions
Houdini fakes are flooding online auction sites
Houdini Milk Can and Iron Box at auction March 6

Events
Three Houdini movies screening at AGO in March

Video
Ashley Drew discovers Houdini in Memphis
Houdini and the Spiritualists with Ken Trombly
On Valentine's Day, Rosabelle still believes
Drunk History presents Houdini and Conan Doyle

Mystifier File
Mystifier, Fourth Quarter 2000
Mystifier, First Quarter 2001

Links
LINK: Houdini is part of The American Story
LINK: The Hot Bid, Harry Houdini Postcard
LINK: 'Houdini Cliff' found in the Palisades
LINK: Early Houdini trading cards

 Politics
The great escape

10th Anniversary
WILD ABOUT HARRY is moving headquarters

 Misc
January 2020 in review
Written by at No comments:
Tags:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Translate