Florida’s Ringling Museum to display rare, vintage circus banners. By Mary Forgione . Sept. 8, ... They show early trapeze artists, a woman juggler on a ladder, acrobat clowns and other performers.

Those of you with coulrophobia (a.k.a. a fear of clowns) might already be planning to steer clear of this season’s old-time-carnival-set American Horror Story: Freak Show. We’ve already been ...

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.

More than 2,500 students attended the first Shrine circus in Medinah Temple, which featured performances by equestrian Poodles Hanneford, Emil Pallenberg’s motorcycle-riding bears, clowns Frank ...

GREENSBORO, NC — There are no tigers and elephants; in fact, the only “animal” is an electric dog named Bailey. The clowns are still there, but hardly wear any makeup. Ringling Bros. and ...