A Brief History of Creepy Clowns

Today's creepy clown is a Halloween favorite—and a return to the subversive figure clowns represented in the past.

Europa Village’s Dark Circus: 21-Year-Old Employee Brings 'Carn Evil Cirque du Mal' To Life

Banquet lead and horror enthusiast Jayden Maciel turned Temecula’s wine country into a haunted carnival with his immersive, ...
Sarasota Magazine

Former Clown Peggy Williams Looks Back on Her Decade in the Ringling Bros. Circus

Peggy Williams, 72, spent a decade performing for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as a clown, and another decade working on the circus’s administration side. She was among the first class of ...
Yahoo

The Shriners Circus has returned, and the boss clown hails from Natick

NATICK — Joe Kohen is ready to clown around when the Shriners Circus makes its return Wednesday at the Aleppo Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington. Natick resident Kohen, the circus' "boss clown," and ...
The New York Times

A New-Look Circus Sends in the Clowns, but Loses the Face Paint.

As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hits the road for the first time in seven years, gone are the tigers, elephants and Pennywise-esque clowns. By Jonathan Abrams Jonathan Abrams saw the ...
MarketWatch

I was a circus clown — and a Wharton M.B.A. These are 5 financial lessons I learned from clowning

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus operated Clown College from 1969 to 1997. I attended in fall 1978 in Venice, Fla., home of Ringling’s winter quarters. Clown College was a one-semester, ...
Morning Call PA

This ‘circus nun’ from the Lehigh Valley hosts Bible study with clowns and blesses trapezes

“Many of my best friends are clowns,” Sister Dorothy Fabritze earnestly told the crowd at Sacred Heart Church in Bethlehem Township. On the wall, she projected an old photo of herself, in which she ...