Mindy | 
01 23rd, 2010| 
Right now, I have an out-of-town guest napping on my sofa; we have about a week before she has to move on, and I’m considering where we can do in Santa Monica, California. She’s seen the places I usually take people, such as the one hundred year old Santa Monica pier; the Third Street Promenade and its nearby English tea houses, restaurants and pubs; even the art museum at Bergamot Station (once a trolley station; now a place for fifty art galleries). So, what to do? Where to go?
Perhaps a trip to Magicopolis might be in order! Magicopolis is a one hundred and fifty seat theater for magic and illusion. It’s best to call or visit their website in order to get advance tickets, because they sell out often. Currently, they’re running, “Escape Reality” at the usual theater times — i.e., Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m., and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.. Magic shows in the evening run around two hours, while the matinee runs a little over ninety minutes. There’s a magic shop here and a magic bar; if you come in early, you’ll find magicians performing some pre-show close-up magic.
This magic venue has been running since 1998, ever since master magicians Penn and Teller helped out at the opening ceremony. Run by Steve Spill, a magician who began his life-long interest in magic at one of the world’s rare private clubs for magicians, the Magic Castle in Hollywood. There, he studied and talked with magic greats, such as Dai Vernon, Francis Carlyle and Charlie Miller.
If I provide my guest with enough interesting things to do, perhaps next time she’s in Santa Monica, she’ll find one of its terrific hotels to be closer to such places as Magicopolis and I’ll have my living room free again!
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