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performers get ready
Arts, Culture & Media
Spanish Carnival floats told to drop sexist songs 
Women in green and yellow costumes dance
With no Carnival, Haiti’s musicians lose more than their stage
A reveler takes part in the Cordao de Boitata party during pre-Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Feb. 19.
Culture
Dozens of cities across Brazil are canceling Carnival
A masquerader during 2013 Carnival in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This year, a Japanese tourist's murder spurred the mayor's resignation and a conversation about women's rights.
Culture
Is the death of a Japanese tourist at Trinidad’s Carnival a symptom of a society with a problem?
A health worker stands in the Sambadrome as he sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, in Rio de Janeiro. Inspectors are spraying the insecticide around the Sambadrome, the outdoor grounds where thousands of
Health
The Zika virus has Brazil fumigating the Sambadrome in advance of Carnival
El Diablo on the streets of Portobelo, Panama.
Music
This Panamanian Carnival tradition manages to make blackface ‘playful’ and ’emancipatory’
After the Quake: Music, Politics and Spirituality in Haiti
After the Quake: Music, Politics and Spirituality in Haiti
Featured Artists: Winter 2014 Dance Party!
Carnival 2014 Mixtape Roundup
Brazil Carnival 2014: Sambas De Enredo
Brazil Carnival 2014: Sambas De Enredo
Maracatu Nação – the Afro-Brazilian culture of Carnaval in Pernambuco
New Machel Montano Video: “Ministry Of Road (M.O.R.)”
A Quebec City carnival-goer warms up with a cold one – Caribou on ice. Quebec consumes up to 5,000 cases of Caribou yearly, nearly all of it during the winter carnival, and most of that outdoors.
Lifestyle & Belief
Quebec’s secret recipe for beating the cold? It’s Caribou.