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 ...

The pianist at a lounge on Princess Cruises’ new ship played the theme song from “Titanic” while guests sipped their cocktails. It may seem like dark humor, but the musician is a ghost, after all. As ...

The conjurers have decided to stay put at Hollywood's Magic Castle. In a membership vote of the Academy of Magical Arts that concluded Monday, members say that about 92% of those voting endorsed a ...

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 ...

On the first night of my cruise earlier this month, I chatted with fellow passengers as we watched the sunset from one of the ship’s highest decks. At one point, a woman asked if I had something on my ...

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 ...

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Milton Larsen, who as co-founder of the Magic Castle transformed a falling-down Hollywood mansion into an iconic private club that attracted top magicians and their fans from around the world, died ...