The heyday of the circus sideshow act exists in the 21st century as a distant memory, usually preserved by grainy sepia photos and folklore that rarely impresses today’s historical skeptics. Yet, the ...

Denver's Conspiracy Circus celebrates 44 shows of sideshow spectacle at the Learned Lemur on East Colfax on October 11.

The circus has come to town, and it's not your grandma and grandpa's kind of circus. The Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow, puts "a comic and dare-devilish spin on the classic American Sideshows of ...

On Saturday, thousands attended the Monster’s Ball for an early start on Halloween. Billed as Detroit’s largest Halloween party, the event filled the Russell Industrial Center with music by DJs Mike ...

Step into Coney Island on a summer day and you’ll hear it — screams from the Cyclone, music blasting from boardwalk speakers. Walk down Surf Avenue and you’ll see a different kind of spectacle: ...

A little bit of Hollywood visited Baraboo Friday. Leslie Zemeckis, who is the wife of Robert Zemeckis, the Academy Award-winning director of "Forrest Gump," met with Circus World Museum Executive ...

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — Before Opal Raven could walk across glass, she had to learn the fundamentals. That may sound peculiar at first blush, but as Raven will tell you, there’s no shortage of teachers ...

A comedian and sideshow artist are among the new acts announced for Halloweird at the Mystic Theatre. When is “really weird” not nearly weird enough? When you are programming the weirdest show of the ...

Red and white pinstripes line the walls, as multicolored balloons hover above the group of magicians, contortionists and jugglers hard at work. Sticky fingers and faces wander about with sugar-fueled ...