Clowns in the Desert
Award-winning writer Kim Palchikoff fell in love with the Moscow Circus when it came to her small American town in 1990. After following them back to Moscow, she spent a decade working for the American media during the day and watching circus shows at night. Now she resides in Las Vegas, where she still writes about the circus. She also directs the Russia-Nevada Circus Project, an oral history project funded by Nevada Humanities that documents Russian circus performers in Nevada.
Cultural exchange builds relationships
May 15, 2012 Kim Palchikoff
In April, I interviewed former Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones, who is now senior vice president of communications and government relations for Harrahs Hotels & Casinos, which has its own circus show on the Strip. Absinthe, a tent circus show
