MC/Ringmaster Philip Solomon and Stilt Circus performers Star Child and Eros Blox entertain people at the Santa Monica Pier on Monday while promoting this Saturday's "Sideshow at the Pier." "Sideshow at the Pier" is part of an ongoing centennial celebration which is an eclectic event that celebrates the roots (and midway spirit) of the Pier with show stopping performances from the largest gathering of variety acts, circus artists, vaudevillians and buskers seen on the Santa Monica Pier in a hundred years. "Sideshow at the Pier" is this Saturday, May 16, 2009 from 2pm-8pm