From samba to soca and candombe, AQ’s music columnist traces Carnival season’s sounds across the hemisphere.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The mere idea that U.S. soldiers on leave from Iraq see Rio's carnival as a free-floating sex party has Brazilians outraged. A report in Britain's The Guardian newspaper that ...

Behind the music and celebration is a mission to help patients who need it most. El Rio Health serves one in nine people in ...

Carnival in Rio is the biggest party in the world, with kaleidoscopic floats 100-feet long and 85-feet tall, thousands of ...