RIO DE JANEIRO -- Samba schools competing for local glory vowed Sunday to throw a magnificent Carnival party -- complete with colorful floats, masked and face-painted dancers, and intoxicating musical ...

After two years without its frenetic festival, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday. A member of a carnival samba school performs during a ...

'Cariocas,' as the residents of Rio call themselves, are preparing for an emotional return of the annual carnival for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 ...

With Brazilian Carnival approaching, we are excited to share with our readers that Midtown Manhattan’s Berimbau Brazilian Table presents Berimbaile, its third annual samba Carnival party that brings ...

In Rio de Janeiro, family clans managing informal lotteries gain criminal influence through samba schools at the heart of ...

(RNS) — Rio de Janeiro’s lavish Carnival parades, which burst to life in the days before Lent begins, are famous for their colorful costumes, giant floats and the driving rhythm of samba that is a ...

From the opening notes of “Ó Abre Alas” or “O Canto da Cidade”, Brazilians know that it’s time to celebrate: Carnival is here. From samba school parades to blocos (roving street parties), music plays ...

Dozens of people gathered Saturday night at the Haile Village Center to connect with Brazilian culture through food and drumming by Bloco GNV at a Carnaval event hosted by Samba Brazilian Kitchen.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Samba and literature rarely share the same stage, but at this year's Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, two samba schools used their parades to tell the stories of Black Brazilian female ...