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Brian opened for the live Diggnation show in New York, and we have it here for those who missed it!

PART 1 :: This week watch Brian play with fire and nails in ways you would never believe!

PART 2 :: Watch Brian unveil the world premiere of Mr. Happy Pants and reveal the supernatural in your cell phone!

From the LVRJ: Cirque du Soleil announced this morning that the debut of “Criss Angel — Believe” will be pushed back two weeks.  Ticketed previews that were to begin on Sept. 1 now will begin Sept. 12. The private party to mark the “official” debut has been pushed from Sept. 12 to Oct. 9.   Spokeswoman Anita Nelving says technical delays made the cast about five weeks late moving into the custom theater at the Luxor from an off-Strip warehouse.  

From the LA Times: This is the latest problem for a show that has been generating its share of controversy, mostly centered around the behavior of star Criss Angel.

It appears that we are starting to hear some rumblings about David Blaine’s upcoming magic special which is in production at the moment. According to Dan Gross of the Philadelphia Daily News,  “Magician David Blaine, wearing a wig, unleashed some tricks on unsuspecting women outside the Continental (2nd & Market) the other night. Blaine is touring the country shooting something to end at the Grand Canyon, a crew member told a fellow outdoor diner.” Blaine was spotted in West Virginia at a local eatery also wearing a wig. While in the neighborhood, he met up with Grateful Dead front man Bob Weir, performed some magic, and went for a ride in his “Grateful Sedan,” then vanished. 

“Harry Houdini escaped every straitjacket and pair of handcuffs put on him, but he hasn’t been able to find the keys to free his ghost trapped in the basement of the Washington Mutual bank building at Sunset and Vine,” begins a recently updated article from the LA Daily News reporting of the fate of the Magicians Hall of Fame. The facility has been ordered closed since late 2004 when a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power transformer blew in an underground vault, contaminating the former NBC Radio building and Home Savings bank with carcinogenic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.