WILD ABOUT HARRY

A new exhibition, Abracadabra: Mysteries from Houdini to Hans Klok , has opened at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. Houdini is well represent...

Here's a surprise entrant into the 2026 Houdini book sweepstakes. The Houdini Research Files and other magical anecdotes: The definitive...

Last week I was invited to Kansas City, Missouri, to participate in the events commemorating a new Houdini historical marker. I had an amazi...

Here's the magnificent new Houdini historical marker unveiled yesterday at the corner of 10th and Main in Kansas City, MO. This commemor...

It was 100 years ago today, on September 2, 1926, that Houdini began his 1926-27 "Coast to Coast" tour of 3 Shows in One at the L...

In 1937, a mystery guest at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles claimed she had a coded message from Houdini, and even caught the attention ...

Okay, this is a big one. Dr. Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theatre and Performing Arts at the Harry Ransom Center, has been working tirele...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting the Motion Picture Academy Library with Diego Domingo and reading several drafts of the Houdini ...

Houdini performed in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and he rests in peace today in Queens. Staten Island was the only one of the five New Y...