San Francisco is enjoying a Golden Age of magic – there are more live magic shows playing in town than there have been in over 100 years, when Vaudeville brought professional entertainers to town, before the talkies really caught on. In the old days, San Francisco had dozens and dozens

San Francisco is an old, iron safe filled with gold, glory, disaster, and secrets. SFCentric History is a new column, by SF writer V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi, that digs in the vaults of local history and shares the sensational people, places, and things that rocked San Francisco. Harry Houdini (born Erik

I fucking love magic! I really do. Like I know it’s nit “magic” in a Merlin sense but I love the illusions people are able to make our feeble human senses perceive. Anyways, with that in mind I’m pretty excited to be giving out these tickets. I have one pair