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Circus freaks fight Nazi occupiers in Italian director Gabriele Mainetti's dark fantasy movie "Freaks Out", which is competing for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. By Silvia Aloisi VENICE, ...

Here’s one the kids will love/be terrified of. Salmagundi! is one part circus performance, one part dinner. The big-shoed, bendy and musical folks behind Circus Freaks, a local troupe of entertainers, ...

ELLENTON, Fla. – From New York to Wisconsin to London and beyond, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus has performed for millions of fans during its 146-year reign as one of the world's ...

P.T. Barnum's circus wagon, courtesy of Feld Entertainment. Cody recently jumped on it. Charles Barkley is "all-in" on it. Lil Wayne is on it (for now). Jim Rome's driving it, because of course he is.

Aderelict-looking Toucan Sam clutches a wad of money in one wing, a paper-bag-wrapped liquor bottle in the other. Behind him Cap’n Crunch and Lucky the Leprechaun (of Lucky Charms fame) are in a ...

Leave it to a bunch of guitarists to glance down at their feet and think how boring the pedals they’re pushing are — and a dream is born. That need to create something visually enticing and sonically ...

When a bunch of musicians looked down at their feet and realized the pedals they were pushing were pretty dull-looking, a desire to create something both visually enticing and sonically impressive ...