This week, LAist Studios debuts "Imperfect Paradise: The Castle" — Part 2. In Part 1, hobbyist magician Carly Usdin fell in love with the Magic Castle, a members-only magician’s club in Los Angeles.

Milt Larsen, an illusionist and former TV game show writer best known as the co-founder of the Magic Castle, Los Angeles’ private club for magicians, died Sunday of natural causes, his family ...

Irma the ghost piano player has had the Magic Castle all to herself for the last 14 months while Hollywood’s famed private club for magicians has been locked up. The doors of the swanky mansion will ...

One comfort in cruising is predictability: Each day, as you glide from port to port, you’ll eat in the same ship restaurants, walk the same decks, swim in the same pools and sleep in the same bed ...

This week, LAist Studios debuts Imperfect Paradise: The Castle — Part 4. It's the story of how one hobbyist magician fell in love with a Los Angeles institution cloaked in mystery — the Magic Castle.

Change has come to the Magic Castle after a scandalous stretch — and guests will notice it moments after they enter the storied venue. For years, there was something of an open secret among the club's ...

Aidan Corcoran, left, Jordan Meller, Jacob Martinez and Anja Steyn are members of the Academy of Magical Arts' Junior Society at the Magic Castle. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Anja Steyn has ...

The new Linq Promenade venue brings together “Late Night Magic,” The Conjurors, David Goldrake and Farrell Dillon.

Milt Larsen, who co-founded Hollywood's famed Magic Castle in the early 1960s, has died at the age of 92, club officials announced on Monday. "It is with heavy hearts that the Academy of Magical Arts ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Milton “Milt” Larsen, a magician and TV ...

Milt Larsen, co-founder of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, died today at age 92. The former TV comedy writer grew up in a family of performers and long dreamed of opening a club for magicians. One ...