Carnival 2025: Highlights from Brazil’s street parties

Brazil’s 2025 Carnival revelry is ramping up, from the raucous street parties to the glitzy parades. Follow AP reporters and ...
Digital Journal

Parades, parties, pageantry: What to know about Rio’s Carnival

Revellers take part in a 'bloco' group parade in Rio de Janeiro's Santa Teresa neighborhood in Brazil on February 4, 2024. — © AFP Revellers take part in a 'bloco ...
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The world's biggest carnival celebration: Your ultimate guide to Rio de Janeiro

Sipping a sugary cocktail as your toes disappear into the white sands of a balneário beach. A sunrise hike through the rainforest, finished off with a bowl of acai and washed down with a zingy lime ...
The Guardian

‘There has to be glitter’: can the Rio carnival give up its love of beach-polluting microplastics?

Revellers celebrate carnival on Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo beach. The city collected 1,600 tonnes of rubbish after last year’s parties and parades but microplastic glitter disappears into the ...
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A samba school rises to Rio Carnival's top league, bringing an economic boom to its poor residents

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Carnival always breathes life into the economy of Vila Vintem, a favela on Rio de Janeiro's west side, but this year the pulse is even stronger with its Unidos de Padre Miguel ...