International Clown Week takes place the first week of August every year. It was created to celebrate the efforts clowns across the world put in to make people laugh. The Midway at Circus Circus ...

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About 20 years ago, Coconut Grove-born Robert Dunn read an Ebony magazine featuring Danise Payne, a former UniverSoul Circus clown, on the cover. That was enough of an inspiration for Dunn to head to ...

MONTREAL — I once felt reasonably confident in my understanding of circuses. There are clowns, high wires, jugglers, maybe a few trained animals, cotton candy, and three rings. Not two rings — three.

Red clown noses decorated Withington Memorial Skating Rink for the free community day of Vermont Circus Festival.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A popular Irish circus is currently experiencing a clown shortage as a ...

The circus, with its built-in otherworldliness, is an ideal setting for fantasy, horror and science-fiction novels. Authors have been capitalizing on it for years. Stephen King terrified a whole ...

WOBURN — When the final prayers had been said and the body had been blessed, the man in the sequined red-tailed ringmaster’s costume stepped up at the graveside and summoned the deep, baritone voice ...