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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 ...
Was that really a circus I had just witnessed? Somewhere, the Ringling Brothers were spinning in their graves, or flying on a ...
“As a garrulous retired professional circus clown I cannot help ... was accepted to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. After his Ringling Brothers heyday and Mexico nights ...
Whittenburg, 67, said she plans to retire from the circus this year, even though her work has helped her keep her depression ...
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 ...
The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is his “Never-Never Land.” His fellow clowns are the other lost boys. And the only pirates they fear are ...
She was honored with an invitation to Clown College by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, but she chose instead to embrace motherhood and family life, which remained her greatest ...
The circus was founded in 2020, and it started as a virtual show. One constant: Monday the Clown. Dick Monday, a Nebraska native, was born in Columbus and attended the Ringling Brothers Barnum ...