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Pure Lies gives us magic with a touch of malarkey

by Catey Sullivan

Trent James lights up Wednesdays at the Chicago Magic Lounge. The intersection of comedy and magic has ballooned since the art form's vaudevillian heyday. Case in point: Trent James, a 22-year-old second-generation magician who approaches the art of illusion with a whole lot of self-deprecating humor and a winking acknowledgment that magic is often little more than "elaborate misdirection…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:10pm on January 23, 2020