Goldman, Bill: Magic Bar & Grill
©1995-2005 Bill Goldman
Softcover, perfect bound, 45 pages

Magic Bar &
              Grill


Comments: Bill's Magic Bar & Grill magazine (10 issues) now compiled into a single volume!

Contents: (Based on the individual issues, not necessarily how they are printed in the book)

1 Bar & Grill #1 (6 pages)
1 Grill: what makes a good magician
1 Finger Count: icebreaker
2 Lemonade: two spectators choose the same card
3 Whatever: Prediction matches number, letter, and card selected
4 - The Art Part: construction
5 When All Is Said and Done: a slice of life for the trade show magician

1 Bar & Grill #2 (6 pages)
1 Grill Blue Plate Special: engaging an audience
1 Magic Papers: trade show notes
2 Bonus Trick: impromptu pen suspended from fingers
2 Soup of the Day: prediction of four items called out by audience
When All Is Said and Done (Harrison Carroll): good and bad days
4 The Big Pill: a giant pill gag
5 Introductions We Hate to Hear: comedy

1 Bar & Grill #3 (8 pages)
1 Grill: It's Magic, but is it Art?
1 Overjog Control: cards
2 All Aboard - The Chameleon Bill: hundred dollar bill switch; the bill increases in value with each fold
3 When All is Said and Done (Dennis DeBondt): humorous anecdote
3 IRD - Information Retrieval Device (Peter Studebaker): a banded deck trick
4 Chicken Eggs: on magic and ethics

1 Bar & Grill #4 (8 pages)
1 Grill - Card Link: new handling for Paul Harris' Immaculate Connection
1 Thumb Card: improvised thumb-tip silk production
2 GamBit: idea for a think-of-a-card-you-see effect
3 When All Is Said and Done (Bob Greenberg): trade show tips
4 Fast Hands: card trick introducing the Veckey Subtlety
8 This And That: idea for the previous issue's Chameleon Bill

1 Bar & Grill #5 (6 pages)
1 Grill: on Internet chats
1 The Flying Backpalm (Mark Roberts): addition to IRD from issue 3
3 When All Is Said and Done (Bob Seaver): what is a magician?
4 The Sunday Times: an up to date version of Gene Anderson's Torn & Restored Newspaper (you should own that, too)
6 A Little Gift: idea using Algonquin McDuff's Little Brown Bag

1 Bar & Grill #6: One Man - One Trick Issue (6 pages)
1 Improved Restored Newspaper: paper is handed out at the end of the routine
2 Sample Headlines (Dennis DeBondt)
3 Newspaper Fold: illustrations
4 How-To
6 When All Is Said and Done: The Golden Rule

1 Bar & Grill #7 (8 pages)
1 On a Cool Grill: On Mentalism
1 You Can See Forever: mental coin bending
3 When All Is Said and Done: clever idea for use of a dove pan
4 There Ain't No More: a subtle approach for predicting several spectator's card selections
5 Like a Bird on a Wire: Book Test

1 Bar & Grill #8
1 Tapas: torn, burnt and restored napkin
2 Old News - New News
3 When All Is Said and Done: spectator announced number, and a card, and the number on the back of the card matches
5 Souvenir: clever revelation of a thought of selection
6 One Coin Spellbound: invisible coin becomes visible
8 Acorns: essay on magic

1 Bar & Grill #9
1 The Rise of the Pyramid: using a Devano-style rising card deck
3 Mercury Rising (Joe Dipietro): a rising Mercury folded card
4 When All is Said and Done: Perception and Perspective
6 The Shape of Things to Come: an interesting deck stack
7 Countdown: 21 card trick

1 Bar & Grill #10
1 Dressed to Grill: introduction
2 The Money Changer: a bill switch routine
4 Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Jack Maxwell)
5 When All is Said and Done: Performing Magic
6 Slider (Garrett Englehard): card force
7 The BG Control


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