SF Weekly Mastermind award winner and Bay Area magician Christian Cagigal's show Now and At the Hour begins its final run this week. The one-of-a-kind show combines Cagigal's very personal storytelling with his "slightly creepy" style of magic. It's kind of like Spalding Gray, if Spalding Gray's act had incorporated mind-bending illusions and narrative-based card tricks. Perhaps one could think of it as taking misdirection to new places: The personal nature of the show has been called "disarming." Through Now and At The Hour, Cagigal says he hopes to get people to think about their own pasts and their own personal memories. Maybe you will, maybe you won't, but at the very least, you'll be amazed by the talented magician's illusions.
