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To extend the metaphor from this space a week ago, my email inbox spilled over with responses about my column headlined “Having a laugh over spilled milk.” Before proceeding with one note in ...
Dozens of plays, musicals, concerts, art exhibits and dance programs are scheduled in the Sarasota area in the usually slow ...
I lived in Chicago – well, in Evanston, Illinois – and just loved Bozo the Clown, and it had such a huge impact on me. And then I went to the circus and saw Lou Jacobs at Ringling Brothers and ...
The one I was stuffed, crammed, and pummeled into at Ringling Brothers some fifty years ago. “It was a Gremlin hatchback, and after stripping the interior we managed to fit fifteen clowns into it.
Felix Adler, king of the clowns at the greatest show on earth, is Peter Pan come to life again. He is the little boy who will never grow up. The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers ...
Though the Ringling Bros. retired in May, dry your eyes and pop your clown nose on; there are plenty more circuses you can visit wide-eyed or run away to and join. No joke: Circus scholar Janet ...
One constant: Monday the Clown. Dick Monday, a Nebraska native, was born in Columbus and attended the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1974. Monday says he’s traveled to ...
Past and present coexist as historic buildings find new life in West Bend. West Bend is named for its location, the westward bend of the Milwaukee River. Today, historic buildings house world ...