Nate Lavers took his first swing at trapeze while on a date 10 months ago. While the relationship didn’t last, he continued to learn the art of swinging from the apparatus — a short horizontal bar ...

WASHINGTON — Working in a newsroom is a lot like a circus. It’s a noisy, bustling place, staffed by individuals who can be funny and ferocious — sometimes both. Whether you’re editing, anchoring, ...

I was standing on a platform 23-feet above the ground, leaning over the edge. “Um, what am I doing up here?” I silently questioned as, clad in a harness belt with safety lines securely fastened, I ...

First, you get strapped in. Then, you walk up a 20-foot-tall ladder to a platform suspended over a bouncy safety net. You reach for the bar, bend your knees and hop — and you’re off, swinging through ...

I’VE GOT A thing about heights. Put me 24 feet in the air, and my palms get sweaty, my knees buckle and I deeply regret climbing up the ladder that got me there. The flying-trapeze instructors at ...

Daydreamers and adrenaline junkies finally can get the answer to an age-old question: What would it feel like to fly? A trip to the new trapeze school on Houston's East End proves it feels just like ...