Ringling Bros. is in the midst of its annual run of shows in our market. The circus plays Fairfax through this weekend.
The show is yet another link to an amazing and underpublicized chain in the area's pop cultural history. It goes back to brothers Izzy and Irvin Feld, who were literally snake oil salesmen growing [...]

Fifty years ago Monday night, Buddy Holly's plane crashed in Clear Lake, Iowa.
There's a rotten local angle to the death of the burgeoning rock god.
Holly was the headliner of the Winter Dance Party tour of 1959, during which he played and died alongside Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper.
The tour was promoted by D.C.'s own [...]