Carnival Starts with More Police: Daily
The number of police on duty during the Carnival has been stepped up this year to 14,454 in order to...
February 8, 2013Topic
Carnival Bloco
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro: A Short History
In Rio, the birthplace of samba music, the Carnival celebrations have become world renowned and are now a global icon...
January 22, 2013
Rio Announces 16% More Blocos in 2013
Bucking the recent trend to lower the number of blocos in Rio, this year an additional sixteen percent of permits...
January 15, 2013
Orquestra Voadora Flying Higher in Rio
From a 2008 Rio Carnival bloco, emerged a union of instrumental musicians operating by the name of ‘Orquestra Voadora,’ meaning...
July 24, 2012
Revival of Praça General Osorio
Over the last several years the Praça General Osorio in Rio’s famous Ipanema has transformed from a “up-and-coming” area to...
January 31, 2012
Rio’s Carnival Street Bloco Schedule
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A fever has been sweeping across Rio de Janeiro...
February 8, 2011
Carnival Street Blocos
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Carnival in Rio is one of the biggest...
January 18, 2011
Orquestra Voadora Flying High
By Felicity Clarke, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - "There's something really powerful about the energy put out by...
August 31, 2010
Winter Carnival with Songoro Cosongo
By Bruno De Nicola, Contributing Reporter [caption id="attachment_7796" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Songoro Cosongo Bloco on parade, photo by Bernardo Tabak/TV...
August 4, 2009