Houdini is certainly a larger-than-life historical figure whose legend looms large over L.A.—who hasn’t driven up and down Laurel Canyon trying to find his former estate? So, for those of us Angelenos who can’t get enough of hocus pocus, the new show Houdini Art and Magic is perfection. At the Skirball Cultural Center through September, the show will feature film clips and rare archival documents to try to demystify the world’s most famous illusionist. (NBC)
