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Fat Tuesday Parties and Parades a Match for Rio's Carnival
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by Rob Walker | February 24, 2009 at 09:35 am
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Fat Tuesday means parties and parades in New Orleans, with thousands of people braving the cold to march or watch in a parade with hundreds of floats. Parties go on until the early morning, and police have made numerous arrests already.
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Fat Tuesday celebrations on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, La.
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Parties continued to blast away in Rio as the city tries to pull itself together after the hangovers caused by the famed Carnival Parades after four days of celebrations.
The first parade of the day is Zulu, the traditional African-American parade, followed by Rex, the king of Carnival, and hundreds of truck floats.At 4 a.m., Zulu members got into costume, which for them means blackface, huge afro wigs and grass skirts — as they have traditionally done. Zulu marks its centennial this year.
Partiers woke up early this morning to begin Fat Tuesday celebrations in New Orleans.
Hundreds of floats led by Zulu Krewe hit the streets in the French Quarter for the first parade of the day at 8 a.m.
Rio de Janeiro was wrapping up its famed Carnival parades in the early hours of Tuesday, after two days of effervescent partying that attracted celebrity guests.
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The celebrations have their origin in Europe, starting even before the Romans.
In the United States, New Orleans to be exact, today is Fat Tuesday, the high point of that city’s world-renowned celebration. The US celebrations had its origins in Europe. Ancient Romans would observe what they called the Lupercalia, a circus-type festival which was, in many respects, quite similar to the present day Mardi Gras. This festival honoured the Roman deity, Lupercus, a pastoral God associated with Faunus or the Satyr.
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at 13:03 on February 24th, 2009
Americanized Paczki (ponch key) filled with custard or fruit filling. An authentic Polish version is a yeast dough with soft raisins, deep fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar!
People drive for miles and stand in line for hours for these Fat Tuesday treats!!
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at 13:22 on February 24th, 2009
These photos are part of a work in progress, a series of permanent performances called “Ballerina in Red”, created by Alessandra Colasanti, a performance artist from Brazil. Ballerina in red is a hybrid character, a mix of ballerina, intellectual and bohemian mad¬cap, mistress of artists like Picasso, Diaglev, Elvis Presley, Charles Aznavour, John Cage and Woody Allen, founder of the Frankfurt School, Imperial Moscow Ballet’s prima ballerina, Duchamp’s muse, official seller of Paris air, and Collège de France scholar. Her “empty enigma” thesis, the biggest presence of the absence of all times, TAKES the paradox’s paroxism TO THE last consequences.A blasé ballerina, a mythomaniac dandy, a debauched PhD, or, like her fans usually say, “just charismatic”.
More at www.abailarinadevermelho.blogspot.com
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at 13:38 on February 24th, 2009
Thanks for this, Rob!
at 13:52 on February 24th, 2009
This is a picture of street carnival in Rio, called sovaco do cristo
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at 14:29 on February 24th, 2009
The street parade in West End Brisbane, timed to coincide with the Carnival in Rio.
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at 15:20 on February 24th, 2009
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at 22:06 on February 24th, 2009
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