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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

One of us is going to have to change: Matching my outfits with BU building styles | It’s All Been Done Before

Erica Schwartz February 28, 2025
I love to feel as if I’ve traveled back in time as I walk through different buildings on campus. In fact, I decided to challenge myself to dress to match the styles and eras of BU’s diverse dwellings and truly feel like a time traveler. 
Despite the company's financial trouble in recent years, ringmaster John Kennedy Kane remains optimistic that Big Apple Circus's newest show will draw families back into the tent. GRAPHIC BY ERICA MAYBAUM/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New circus show juggles waning market, elephantine ambition

Emily Evans March 19, 2015

The circus, with its large tents, clowns, crowds of people and acrobats, is not an experience that would generally be described as intimate. However, the Big Apple Circus is trying to change that with...

EDIT: The Greatest (Elephant-Free) Show on Earth

EDIT: The Greatest (Elephant-Free) Show on Earth

Editors March 6, 2015

Come one, come all: the circus is finally catching up with the times. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is planning on retiring all 13 of their remaining performing elephants by 2018. Although...

INTERROBANG

Daily Free Press Admin November 7, 2013

Some drunken French teenagers scouted out a circus in Bordeaux to kidnap a zebra. According to BuzzFeed, the llama named Serge seemed more keen on an adventure, so the boys took him on a tram tour of the...

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