NEW YORK – Beth Wallace was stopped at a traffic light when a truck pulled up next to her. As she took a sip from her thermos of coffee, Wallace, 32, a San Francisco resident, glanced at the driver, ...

These painted performers drew a strong emotional reaction. Clowns are supposed to be makers of mirth, messengers of merriment, producers of pratfalls, fabricators of frivolity. And, yet, as Stephen ...

ANAHEIM – A couple juggled balls and bowling pins. One cracked whips while precariously balancing on stilts. Another voraciously “ate” a long, carnival-style blue balloon. The eight applicants who ...

As advance clowns for the circus, which hails from Hugo, Okla., they will double the 10,000 miles the circus travels each year to visit 200 cities, she said. They arrive two weeks in advance, driving ...

Think of it as Comic-Con for clowns. That’s how Randy Christensen describes the World Clown Association’s International Convention, which plants its floppy shoes Monday through March 16 at the Crown ...

NORFOLK — Rob Lok surveys the crowd for a moment, adjusts his bulbous, red nose, and prepares to dump his bag of classic tricks. A clown’s tools spill out on the floor in a jumbled heap: a rubber ...

•500 pounds of snow-cone ice eaten in each city •500 pounds of sugar for cotton candy in each city Source – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Get ready for the world to turn upside down when the ...

When Stephen Sondheim wrote what became his most popular song, “Send in the Clowns,” for the 1973 musical “A Little Night Music,” he didn’t have a circus in mind. The “clowns” he was referring to were ...

I’m not suggesting entering our local political arena, though I’m sure some would argue we always could use a few more bozos in town for comic relief. All kidding aside, I’m talking real, ...

Twenty clowns on a mission rode BART on Friday, which is usually not a funny thing to do. Nobody told that to the clowns, however. They had a great time, and so did the perplexed passengers who made ...