Big Top Subby

Time is running out to see one of the (many) gems of St. Louis cultural life, Circus Flora. The last show is on June 25 (that’s five days left, folks). If you don’t know CF, then you’re missing out. It’s a European-style circus that features acrobatics, juggling, horses, and a clown who would impress even the best of Vaudeville. But let me warn you with acrophobia out there, when the Flying Wallendas perform the seven-person pyramid, close your eyes.

And if an evening of circus life has you pining for more, Sub can help. We’ve always got circus sideshows, freaks, and geeks on the mind. New in the store…

*Marc Hartzman – American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
*Roger L. Worsham – The Gathering
*Daniel P. Mannix – Memoirs of a Sword Swallower

and some Sub classics…

*Freaks, Geeks & Strange Girls: Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway
*J.D. Hall - Freaks and Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus

From the center circle,
Jason