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By Leila Navidi · April 8, 2009 · 4:33 p.m.

An audience member participates in a routine as the punchline of a joke is unfurled during Penn & Teller's show at the Rio. Penn busily recruits audience members at each show.
Discovery Channel's Time Warp slows down Las Vegas stunts
Monday, June 15, 2009
Jennifer Grafiada
You may have seen Penn swallow fire, but you haven’t seen it like this: easing down his throat centimeter by centimeter as the flames emerge from inside his mouth. For a view this good you have to be Teller, or watching Discovery Channel’s Time Warp, which heads to Vegas for this Wednesday’s episode.
"The Girls Next Door" reality television star Holly Madison was among those who walked the red carpet at the CineVegas film festival's premiere of "Saint John of Las Vegas" Wednesday night at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
Stars align for CineVegas
FILM FESTIVAL: Dennis Hopper, Jon Voight, Willem Dafoe, Sam Rockwell among those expected
Thursday, June 11, 2009
By Melissa Arseniuk
While the celebrities might not be exactly lining up for this year’s CineVegas film festival, Las Vegas’ miniature version of Sundance is attracting a decent number of stars both big and small.
Vegas names round out Forbes Top 100 list
Thursday, June 4, 2009
By Amanda Finnegan
A magical team, a longtime illusionist and a cooking legend all represent Las Vegas on Forbes’ annual list of "The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities." The Celebrity 100 is a measure of power based on money and fame.
Nathan Santucci, "Director of Covert Activities" for the Penn & Teller show at the Rio, creates props for the show, which he says is "more like a science lecture" than magic show. "I don't like magic, I don't do magic, I don't go to magic shows," says Santucci, who handles so much stage blood that his hands are permanently dyed red.
Good ‘magic’ is bloody science
Person of Note: Behind the scenes, ‘Director of Covert Activities’ keeps Penn & Teller safe, audiences in awe
Friday, May 1, 2009
By Brendan Buhler
Nathan Santucci has worked for Penn & Teller (hereafter referred to as “the guys”) for 15 years and 2,600 shows, both on stage and television, and for the past nine years has had the G. Gordon Liddy-esque job of “Director of Covert Activities,” which has many responsibilities, chief among them building and maintaining magic props.
Staying power is no trickery
Staying power is no trickery
MAGIC: Penn & Teller on their 35-year partnership, charity, religion, vice and the artistic freedom granted by Las Vegas
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
By Jerry Fink
The magic team of Penn & Teller could not be more different — or more alike. Both are brilliant, always exploring thoughts and ideals and holding firmly to their beliefs of atheism and libertarianism.
Penn Jillette performs The Beatles' "Come Together" with the Lon Bronson All-Star Band at Green Valley Ranch on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.
Penn Jillette helps Bronson band create Vegas magic
Review: Foreigner's Domenick Allen also takes stage for show at Green Valley Ranch
Friday, January 30, 2009
By Mark Whittington
Now this is Vegas. “I’m a magician and I’m a juggler, so I’m going to sing for you,” says Penn Jillette, launching into a rambling explanation of how this song was written as the campaign theme for Timothy Leary’s bid for California governor, aborted when Leary ended up in jail.
An audience member participates in a routine as the punchline of a joke is unfurled during Penn & Teller's show at the Rio. Penn busily recruits audience members at each show.
Penn & Teller: Tricks, gags, laughs, jazz
REVIEW: Spectacle has it all, and it doesn’t disappoint
Monday, January 19, 2009
By Joe Brown
Now that nerds officially rule, and our brainy new president is stocking the White House with similarly intelligent, curious and articulate people, the time has surely come to appoint Penn & Teller as Magicians of State.
John Katsilometes talks entertainment and charity with Penn Jillette, who lives up to his role as the nonsilent member of Penn & Teller
Monday, April 16, 2007
Characteristically, the vocal half of Penn & Teller, who have been performing at the Rio for a little more than six years, was fast to share his opinions.
Columnist John Katsilometes: The opinionated license plates of Penn Jillette
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
By John Katsilometes
Jillette, who along with partner Teller, organized the third "Penn & Teller's 13 Bloody Days of Xmas" blood drive (which concluded Saturday), owns three Mini Coopers. All are his favorite color, bright pink, and each is fixed with a vanity plate: Jillette's other two plates read "GODLESS" and "NO GOD."
Columnist John Katsilometes: Getting to the pint at a blood-letting with Penn Jillette
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
By John Katsilometes
Penn Jillette knows how to generate positive news.
Playing the Fool: Vegas comics have turned pranks into an art form
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
By Kristen Peterson
Several years ago a group of colleagues at Bell Labs in New Jersey told their boss Arno Penzias a 1978 Nobel Prize in physics honoree that they were working on a highly advanced voice recognition system.
Penn and Teller at home in cynic city
Friday, February 7, 2003
Frazier Moore
NEW YORK -- For their new Showtime series, Penn and Teller chose a title that proclaimed their skepticism for such things as weight-loss products, feng shui and creationism; for end-of-the-world forecasts and the purity claims by bottled-water marketers; for ESP, sex aids and "second-hand smoke."
'Penn & Teller' the talk of the town -- literally
Friday, October 4, 2002
How can anyone complain about a "Penn & Teller" performance?
Penn's State
Friday, August 3, 2001
Kimberley McGee
Don't let Penn Jillette fool you.
Columnist Joe Delaney: Penn & Teller settle in for longer run at Rio
Friday, July 20, 2001
Joe Delaney
Penn & Teller are settling into the Rio's Samba Theatre for longer and longer periods ... This engagement continues through Aug. 19 ... Just as Siegfried & Roy, Lance Burton and David Copperfield differ in presentation from each other as practitioners of magic and the illusionary arts, a Penn & Teller performance is another entertainment experience entirely.
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