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11:57 am Sat
Jun 13, 2015
A 65-year-old man in Buchen, Germany was collecting bottles and cans on an early morning walk when he was attacked and killed by a circus elephant who had somehow escaped her enclosure. Now the question is, was her enclosure not secured properly, or did someone intentionally let her out? An investigation is underway. The African Elephant, named Baby, was safely returned to her tent.
The Kalvan family brings juggling, acrobatics, science, and engineering together in an astonishing variety show. Jack, Jeri, Max and Oz are all talented faces you’ve likely seen on TV and in the movies. In addition to their insane book of skills, they’re accomplished jugglers, acrobats, circus and stunt people, this is also a family of […]
Katherine Dunn, the author of the incredible macabre comedic novel Geek Love, about the strange shenanigans in a circus sideshow, has died at age 70 from lung cancer. From a Los Angeles Times profile of Dunn at the time of the book’s release in 1989: As Dunn’s tale goes, Aloysius Binewski, proprietor of a traveling […]
A round of synchronized applause for Vlad Gapanovich, Maxim Golovchenko, and Evgeniy Pahalovich! I haven’t seen a multi-person juggling routine this captivating since The Flying Karamazov Brothers. The video, titled, um, “Drugs,” was directed by Taras Pozdnyakov, founder of [Raw Art], a “post-circus” of graduates from the Kiev Circus Academy.
Virus quarantines and shuttered restaurants sent millions of Americans back to their homes, only to rediscover the joys of firing up an oven and cooking something special for themselves. Whether by desire, necessity, or both, many of us have certainly been spending more time in the kitchen these last few months. And we haven’t just […]
Now that the world is starting to re-emerge from its self-imposed COVID-19 quarantine, we’re all going to have to start making some adjustments to both short-term and long-term changes. And the questions… Should customers be hounded out of a store if they aren’t wearing a face mask? Are crocheted face masks safe or not? And […]
Maybe you had a piano teacher as a kid that drove you off the instrument forever. Or maybe you always wished for some serious training, but never found the time. Whether you have dreams of tossing off a Beethoven or Chopin piece at the drop of a hat or you have visions of being the […]
