It took only one spark to destroy an entire circus. On Feb. 20, 1940, a fire destroyed the main building of the Cole Brothers & Robbins circus winter headquarters in Rochester in Fulton County. The ...

For composer, musician and artist Donald Rubinstein, imagining the persona of a 1940s' pianist named Jeremy Bonafide, the hero of Rubinstein's latest CD, Circus Boy, was to come to grips with his own ...

A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his ...