Rio Carnival is one of the biggest ... where it met with the local population’s passion for music and dance. It gradually ...

My Brazilian friends told me that the samba schools prepare for Carnival for a full year. Besides performances, each school also creates their own song for that year's festival. These local ...

the extravagant celebration of life that is Rio’s Carnival is scheduled to begin Friday. Drawing in flocks of visitors from all over the globe, Brazil’s megaparty injects hundreds of millions ...

Brazil cancels the Carnival celebration ... As such, Carnival’s full-fledged return is a shot in the arm for local economies. “Yesterday, I went to sleep at 3 in the morning.

They race through local streets ... mask covering Bem Feito — or the Well Done crew's faces. Carnival is done very differently in Rio's outskirts, not at all how it's celebrated by the beach ...

“Carnival represents the Brazilian identity ... kicked off just before 7.30 a.m. local time in the bohemian neighborhood of Santa Teresa. This year, the group made up of percussionists, wind ...

SAO PAULO — Brazil's Carnival muse this year isn't one of the ... it pities the world for not knowing what we know,” the actress told local news website UOL. “When someone breaks through ...

No way' down A survivor, identified as Roberta, told local media she had been working ... The cause of the fire has not been established. Rio's Carnival, famous for parades with lavish costumes ...