[ad#p1] Television review: ‘Circus’ on PBS The lovely six-hour documentary series follows a New York-based troupe. I think the circus must mean something different now than it did when I was a child, when clowns were not yet established as people to fear — they could be scary, sure, but the idea they were actually [...]

We find it funny that television can cause international tension. It’s better than clowns all crowded into a small car. Tensions between Israel and Turkey spilled into a second day Tuesday when Turkish officials summoned the Israeli ambassador to a meeting, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency reported. Israel criticized Turkey Monday for a Turkish television series [...]