You’ve got to respect the Jim Rose Circus. Rose is perfectly willing to let Cirque Du Soleil try to spiff up circuses into something intellectual and highbrow. He, however, has stuck to the opposite ...

I have a big problem with “regular” circuses that beat elephants, starve lions and drug dogs, but the Jim Rose Circus is one I can get behind. Consenting adult humans doing crazy shit to and with ...

"You're talking to a guy who's never had a tattoo or a piercing," Jim Rose says. He's not mentioning it as a matter of pride or a statement of values, he's just making a clarification. After all, this ...

Whatever happened to those new primitives from a decade or so ago—the pierced, tattooed kids who had Iggy Pop’s body type and a taste for olden-time burlesque? Some may have turned to yoga or jobs.