Category: arts

May 21, 2017, was the final show of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Until it wasn’t.

May 21, 2017, was the final show of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Much has been written about this; the short version is that the name was too long for modern audiences. It began at 7pm EST and ran for a little over two hours. Then everyone went home.

Feld Entertainment will no doubt find new jobs for the acts and crew in their other productions, and likely there will be some other circus-like show popping up at some point. The point is this is the end of an era; while there will always be the connection of the tradition of the circus, the loss of the actual 149-year-old circus is a big moment in the life of a world.

Update: False alarm! They returned in September 2023, without the animal acts.

Dead Authors Podcast; First and Final

H.G. Wells uses his time machine to bring famous authors to Los Angeles for an interview.

The premise: H.G. Wells uses his time machine to bring famous authors to Los Angeles for an interview.

The first guests were Henry Miller (Eddie Pepitone) and Sylvia Plath (Jen Kirkman) and the final in the series was L. Frank Baum (Chris Tallman).

Available on all podcast services or direct download: Chapter_50_-_L._Frank_Baum.mp3 from the Dead Authors website.

Direct download: Preface_-_Sylvia_Plath__Henry_Miller.mp3

They’ve come a long way. The DAP might return as a paid podcast, at some point. All profits go to the 826LA literacy program.

826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students.

For more information on 826: http://826national.org/chapters/

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