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Rio Carnival

After The Party, Rio On Cleanup Duty As Carnival Ends

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 04.15.2013 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The world's Carnival capital picked up the pieces on Wednesday, after five straight days of decadent samba school parades, rauc...

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PHOTOS: The Best Images From Brazil's Carnival

Posted 02.13.2013 | World
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Rio Carnival: The words alone conjure images of half-naked (or some fraction greater than half) samba dancers, kaleidoscopes of color and surreal floa...

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Rio's Samba Schools Pull Out All The Stops For Carnival

AP | Posted 02.12.2013 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rio de Janeiro's samba schools vied for the title of the year's best Monday in an over-the-top, all-night-long Carnival parade at th...

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LOOK: Carnaval 2.0

AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 02.09.2013 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The crowd gathering Saturday was a typical Rio Carnival mix: a sprinkling of superheroes, girls in cute bunny outfits, zombies and p...

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Rio Locals Flee Carnival Fever

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 02.08.2013 | Travel
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's street...

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Nightclub Tragedy Stirs Safety Fears Over Brazil's Upcoming Carnival

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 02.08.2013 | World
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SAO PAULO -- Just over a week since a nightclub fire killed nearly 240 revelers in southern Brazil, Carnival festivities hit full stride Friday, raisi...

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LOOK: Ridiculous Photos From Rio's Dog Carnival

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 02.05.2013 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The crowd at the Blocao Carnival street party Sunday was a decidedly mixed one. Roughly half the revelers were humans, the other hal...

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Rio's Carnival In Miniature

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 02.28.2012 | Home
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Using tilt-shift techniques, filmmakers Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli made Rio's Carnival look as if it were happening in miniature. Their short fil...

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The Sambadrome Gets A Makeover

2012-02-16-archdailyreal.jpg | Posted 02.21.2012 | Home
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By Karissa Rosenfield (click here for original article) Brightly colored confetti and sequined samba queens covered the newly renovated Sambadrome...

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LOOK: Beatles Party At Rio Carnival

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 04.21.2012 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — English speakers got their moment in the Carnival sun on Monday as a wild, Beatles-themed street party let them shake it up, b...

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Stars Power At Carnival

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 04.20.2012 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As millions watched the sequin-clad samba dancers at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Carnival parade Sunday, at least a few eyes turne...

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Heartbreak At Brazil's Carnival? This May Be Your Solution

AP | By JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 04.19.2012 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- It's the typical tale of doomed Carnival romance: Boy spots girl in the sweaty crush of a street party. Moments later, they're locke...

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Bigger, Brighter, Better Organized?

AP | By JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 04.18.2012 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Showered in confetti and flanked by sequined samba queens, Rio's mayor symbolically relinquished control of the city to its rotund C...

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'I'm Flattered To Represent Chubby Women'

Posted 02.13.2012 | World
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Brazil brings to mind a number of things: Beautiful women like Giselle Bunchen, Adriana Lima or Alessandra Ambrosio; and Carnival, the biggest party i...

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PHOTOS: Carnival Goes To The Dogs

AP | By JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 04.13.2012 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Most pre-Carnival street parties in Brazil are all about samba, but the moves on display at Sunday's Blocao parade were focused more...

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PHOTOS: Celebs Come Out For Carnival

Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
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Carnival, Rio's biggest party, continued to thrive over the weekend, with parades and celebrations galore. Among the 800,000 tourists and Brazilian...

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Carnaval in Rio: How to Have Fun and Not Get Mugged

Chris McGowan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro is bigger and better than ever in 2010, with the street celebrations having surged in popularity over the last ten years an...

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Tijuca, Samba Group Featuring 7-Year-Old Julia Lira, Crowned Rio Carnival Champs

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A samba group that enraged child-welfare advocates by choosing a 7-year-old as a drums corps queen finished last Wednesday in t...

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Rio Carnival 2010 PHOTOS: The Most Over-The-Top Moments

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Rio Carnival is once again rocking Brazil in all its outrageous, over-the-top glory. The carnival, like Mardi Gras, is a pre-Lent party, designed to ...

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Geisy Arruda, Woman In Miniskirt Scandal, Turns Rio Carnival Star

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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(AP) RIO DE JANEIRO - Geisy Arruda is dancing proof that nowhere is transformation more achievable than in Brazil's Carnival, ripe with fantasy and me...

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Madonna Hits Rio Carnival With Jesus Luz & Mercy (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Jesus Luz reportedly dumped Madonna not two weeks ago, but the couple was seen reveling together over the weekend at the Rio Carnival in his native Br...

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