So it's high noon, and I'm stuck in Southern California—literally, stuck—in a dune of sand. I'm traveling solo; my only companions are a dead cell phone and a canteen of drinking water on the verge of ...

Once the stuff of national tours, vaudeville acts and tricks are now often relegated to circuses and county-fair sideshows. Sword-swallowing, fire-juggling, and glass-eating will make their way out of ...

Ruth Corwin, who danced on Bourbon Street during the golden age of French Quarter burlesque as “Alouette Leblanc, the Tassel Twirler,” has died in Charleston, S.C. She was 80. Rick Delaup, producer of ...