By Walt Hickey The Town Rolled Into Circus The 80-acre community of Nipton, California, is home to a general store and 25 inhabitants, and was recently bought by Spiegelworld, a Vegas-based theater company, for $2.5 million. It’s not entirely clear how the circus’s adult-themed acrobatic performance skills lend themselves to municipal operations, but they’re giving it a solid go, removing about 250 tons of debris and setting out vague but I must admit intriguing aspirations of a circus village or sculpture park.