Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over 35 years, the gay porn shop Circus of Books gave Los Angeles’ LGBT+ community a space to socialize and celebrate ...

Over 300 route books made by American circuses are being digitized for the first time by Illinois State University, Circus World, and the Ringling Museum of Art. “The Circus Annual” from Ringling Bros ...

It sometimes seems as if Netflix has reinvented the documentary. The streaming service frequently produces films and series about subjects that may not have been given the time of day by more ...

Watch a clip from the documentary ‘Circus of Books,’ directed by Rachel Mason. Photo: Netflix ‘Circus of Books,” a fascinating documentary newly on Netflix, chronicles the rise and fall of a family ...

The documentary “Circus of Books” tells the story of two book stores, one in West Hollywood and the other in Silver Lake, operated by Karen and Barry Mason, who became accidental book sellers. They ...

Walls of cock rings, porn star Jeff Stryker, Larry Flynt, and a kindly married Jewish couple: One of these things is not like the other. They all come together in perfect if unexpected harmony in ...

Rachel Mason's Netflix documentary "Circus of Books" tells the colorful history of her parents' iconic queer porn bookstore. Circus of Books closed its last location in 2019 due to the rise of ...

The default line in the Mason family was that their family ran a bookstore. This statement was technically accurate, but the full truth, according to artist and filmmaker Rachel Mason, was shrouded in ...

Chances are, you haven’t seen Rachel Mason’s debut film, The Lives of Hamilton Fish, a surreal, arty musical about two men—one a politician, the other a cannibal—who died on the same day in 1936. It ...

The Circus of Books bookstore is a vital piece of Los Angeles' LGBTQ history. And with the release of the Circus of Books documentary, audiences will get a close look into the shop's notorious history ...

CAT MAN (310 pp.)—Edward Hoagland—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Reading this novel about circus life is a little like lifting a splendid rug and finding that unspeakable things have been swept under it.