CARNIVAL. The Christian festival called Carnival takes place on Shrove Tuesday, the eve of Ash Wednesday. In its widest sense, however, the Carnival period is of much longer duration, beginning right after Christmas, the New Year, or the Feast of...

Carnival is a festival season. It occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February or March. It typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus and public street party. People often dress...

Samba group Beija Flor was declared Brazil's carnival champion for the fifth time in six years, wowing judges with gold-encrusted, winged dancers and green jungle display floats.While Beija Flor's dancers were topless, the judges drew the line at going bottomless, penalizing the rival Sao Clemente...

Major events scheduled for Carnival 2008 in Louisiana:Feb. 1:_ 12:30 p.m., Gray Monkey Children's Parade, Plaquemine._ 6 p.m., Omega parade, Hammond._ 6 p.m., Hermes parade, New Orleans._ 6:30 p.m., Friday night parade, Lafayette._ 6:30 p.m., Aphrodite parade, Houma._ 6:30 p.m., Le Krewe d'Etat parade, New...

The mere idea that U.S. soldiers on leave from Iraq see Rio's carnival as a free-floating sex party has Brazilians outraged.A report in Britain's The Guardian newspaper that American soldiers are looking to Rio for rest and recreation _ especially sex tourism _ prompted many...

Revelers clad in black in white flocked to the city's center Saturday for the traditional Black Ball band, putting aside the violence that has cast a shadow over the city in recent weeks.The Black Ball band, which has played carnival since 1918, traditionally opens the...

[The story of Jenny in Carnival] is an amalgam of Mackenzie's experience and observation. (p. 12) The real tragedy … lies not in the murder of Jenny by gunshot, but in the gradual murder of her vivacity, sharp wit, and sheer brightness, her marvellous aliveness, by a kind of inertia in herself: it was too easy for her to stay in the chorus at the Orient with her friends and admirers around her rather than to move forward into the more taxing world of dancing…. It is this wastefulness&#x...

The rituals of Carnival had several purposes in the traditional European life.