Other highlights of the morning included a live disc jockey, magicians from Magic Castle in Los Angeles, Star Wars characters, LAPD K9 officers and motorcycles, free face painting, caricature drawings and a balloon artist.
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Marianne Love,
Daily News,
1 June 2026
Cocktail Magic includes bars with different themes and wandering magicians.
As Bloomberg recently reported, brides are buying $14 spells from witches on Etsy to ensure that their $100,000 weddings are not marred by blizzards or downpours.
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Maureen Dowd,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
These are places from Filipino folklore, where shapeshifters, demons, witches, and monsters exist.
Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.
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Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
Seven Mountains has brought the language of spiritual warfare and demon-fighting into the mainstream of evangelicalism, through a network of pastors who view themselves as prophets and apostles engaged in a battle against evil secular forces.
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Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
This idea was the work of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic movement that began gathering momentum in the 1990s and is now the leading edge of the Christian right.
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