Showing results for "Sideshow" in Entertainment & Performing Arts

The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. The secrets behind such daring feats as fire-eating and sword swallowing and bizarre exhibitions of human oddities as "Alligator Boys" and "Gorilla Girls" still remain, only grudgingly if ever given up by performers and carnival professionals.

Diggin’ In The Crates is a weekly radio show on Calgary campus station CJSW hosted by Sideshow Sid. Every week, as the clock strikes Midnight on Thursday morn, Sid takes a deep dive into his crates. On any given show you might here the Doo-Wop of the Flamingos followed by an obscure 60’s B-side from Status Quo; the anger of “California Uber Alles” quelled by Aretha’s rendition of “Bridge Over Troubled Water;” the baffling freneticism of Drum & Bass made, less so, by the 4/4 pulse of House. This is a show dedicated to the past. As the late great Prince Nelson George once sung…...