The 133rd edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus marched through downtown Bakersfield and showed their stuff recently at the Centennial Garden.
The show featured a number of attractions for the whole family, from the animal open house, where people could get up and close with the animals, to the Globe of Death, which featured a number of motorcycle drivers racing for their lives inside a steel cage.
Also on hand was Bailey’s Comet, in which a man who was on fire was shot across the Garden from a cannon. And like any good circus, there were clowns on parade.
The whole show took form like a musical, headed by ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson and “America’s Best Clown,” Bello.