CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) – Sweet Pepper Klopek set a world record in 2015 when he lifted a 15-pound sledgehammer using two hooks pierced into his cheeks. On Sunday, Arrie Fae Bronson-Davidson is ...

Step into Coney Island on a summer day and you’ll hear it — screams from the Cyclone, music blasting from boardwalk speakers. Walk down Surf Avenue and you’ll see a different kind of spectacle: ...

Authors of books about carnival freaks have their work cut out for them. They rightly recoil at inviting their audience to gawk at human deformity, and yet that’s precisely what’s for sale. Tod ...

Sideshow performer Jeremy Kinison of Cut Throat Freak Show loves to shock and awe with his dangerous-looking antics. And he did plenty of both while living in the Valley for more than a decade, ...

Sideshow performer Jared Rydelek is no second banana. The sword-swallowing, walk-on-glass escape artist is a world record holder who has been featured on the National Geographic and Discovery channels ...

Sideshow freaks? (Freak is a word we use endearingly.) First thing we think of is the lady who can grow a beard. No doubt she exists. We see gals with killer ’staches all the time. But she’s not a ...

CONEY ISLAND — Coney Island is home to a plethora of quirky events, but the highlight of March was its eighth annual Ritual Cabaret, hosted by Coney Island USA and International Culture Lab (ICL).

Premiere episode of The Sideshow hosted by Paul McDermott. Guests this week included The Fondue Set, The Kransky Sisters, Ed Byrne, Eddie Perfect, That 1 Guy and a performance by Evermore. Also ...

At Conspiracy Circus, the show doesn’t begin with a curtain rising, but with a secret door swinging open behind the counter of the Learned Lemur, an oddities shop filled with antiquities and taxidermy ...

The new track is a musical ode to sideshow performers — the fire-breathers, human blockheads, knife-throwers, jugglers, contortionists, strongmen, bed-of-nails artists, tightrope walkers, sword ...