Kendrick Lamar’s star-studded Juneteenth concert was a celebration of Los Angeles’s rap scene. A year later, the up-and-comers who shared the stage with him speak on their experience ...

We were lucky enough to catch Clown in a Cornfield at SXSW this year and have had clowns on the brain ever since. This got me thinking about all of the clowns haunting the horror genre on screen ...

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What’s fresh is destined to become archaic, and generational tensions course throughout Clown in a Cornfield, a slasher film that’s all about hewing to convention. Eli Craig’s adaptation of ...

The critically accclaimed horror commedy Clown in a Cornfield is getting a special drive-in theater engagement a week before the film opens in theaters nationwide. The official description of the ...

Before you can understand "krumping" and "clowning," you've got to understand the history and people of South Central Los Angeles. Director David LaChapelle opens his documentary, Rize, with news ...

Before you can understand "krumping" and "clowning," you've got to understand the history and people of South Central Los Angeles. Director David LaChapelle opens his documentary, Rize, with news ...

Tommy The Clown first got international notice in the 1990s' documentary "Rize," as the Godfather of krumping, which evolved from clowning. He still travels to birthday parties where it all started.

To tell the history of Krumping, you first need to know about the predecessor — Clowning. In 1992, West Coast icon Thomas "Tommy the Clown" Johnson invented Clowning in Compton, Calif., ...

I don’t think I was ever a great dancer, but krumping was always my favorite thing to do and watch — now let me get back to Tommy the Clown. From 2008-09, Tommy the Clown was a guest at Miss ...

For parents who want their children to express themselves in the form of clowning and krumping, Tommy offers classes at his Tommy the Clown Hip Hop Academy.

If you want to join their ilk, here’s what you need to know about becoming a professional clown. At its heart, clowning is a performance meant to delight and entertain. It combines spoken comedy ...