Harry Houdini made two appearances in Fort Worth, one in 1916 and again in 1924. Max Faulkner Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss, arguably the ...

Grand Rapids residents gathered at Monroe and Ionia to witness the legendary escape artist free himself from restraints.

SALT LAKE CITY — Once upon a time, Harry Houdini, the famed magician and escape artist, hung upside down from a downtown building in Salt Lake City. Houdini started his career in entertainment at an ...

Halloween has come and gone, but one of the world's most famous Halloween legends lives on in Wisconsin.Houdini is a name so famous that it's still familiar nearly a century after his mysterious death ...

Weaver’s (Hudson) well-researched biography of Harry Houdini paints a complex picture of the escape artist who worked tirelessly to fill the public’s appetite for thrilling stunts. Her wide-ranging ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Harry Houdini was born 136 years ago today. To mark the day, Susan King ...

An advertisement in the Milwaukee Sentinel promoted Harry Houdini's run of shows at the Majestic Theatre in April 1912 as the "Homecoming of a Milwaukee Boy." Another newspaper ad touted the ...

It’s a bit presumptuous of me to suggest that the History cable network scheduled its two-part “Houdini” mini-series over Labor Day weekend on the theory that most folks will be away from their ...

Before David Copperfield made the Great Wall of China disappear and David Blaine was frozen in a block of ice, there was a Hungarian-born Jew who made a career of escaping from handcuffs, milk cans ...

Kristen Johnson, also known as Lady Houdini, goes far beyond the role women usually play in escape acts. "It was important for me to be a strong... Lady Houdini's Escape Act Breaks Through Not Just ...

MELBOURNE—Harry Houdini, master of the greatest escapes, has a new rival. His name is Roger Federer. For the second time in the last three matches, Federer stood millimeters from the abyss. Friday ...