By Fiona Hurrell, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Renowned for its innovative and playful Carnival Enredos (Themes), G.R.E.S. União da Ilha do Governador (known as União da Ilha) is the fourth school to parade at the Sambódromo on Sunday, February 10th. Having fought its way in to the Grupo Especial (Special Group) [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As 2012 draws to a close, Rio begins to prepare for its biggest event on the social calendar – the much anticipated Carnival. With not a moment to lose, samba schools across the city have chosen their Rainha da Bateria (Queen of the Drums) [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With the official dates of Carnival 2012 almost upon us, all eyes turn to the Grupo Especial (Special Group), the largest and most accomplished samba schools in the world. The crème de la crème of Rio’s samba schools will be parading at the Sambódromo on [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The long anticipated parade of Last year’s Carnival champions, G.R.E.S Beija-Flor will take place in a matter of weeks at Rio’s famous Sambódromo. Currently ranked the highest over all the Rio samba schools, Beija-Flor will be parading on Sunday, February 19th at 02:25 AM. Meaning [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – G.R.E.S. Unidos da Tijuca, Rio’s third oldest Samba school, were crowned champions in 2010 and runners up in Carnival 2011. This year they are looking for victory when they perform on February 20th at 01:20 AM with their new Enredo (Theme), “O Dia em Que [...]
By Ana Gabriela Ribeiro, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With less then a month to go before Carnival 2012, revelers need to hurry up if they still want to buy Fantasias (Carnival costumes) to parade on the “Sapucai” at the Sambódromo in Rio. Each samba school participating in the parade competition has their [...]
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The news that three people had been arrested for public urination at a pre-Carnival bloco in Copacabana last Friday was met with mixed feelings by Rio residents. On the one hand it showed that the city is taking action to deal with [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – G.R.E.S. Estação Primeira de Mangueira, known simply as Mangueira, has won the Rio Carnival competition no less than eighteen times, and has the distinction of being the first school to take the championship title at the original Sambódromo parade. After ranking 3rd last year, they [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Currently ranked third best over all the Rio samba schools, G.R.E.S Unidos de Vila Isabel is a traditional club with plenty of history. Just over a month away now, rehearsals will be increasing in fervor until the official Carnival parade where the school will be [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – G.R.E.S. Imperatriz Leopoldinense represents the suburb of Ramos in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and after ranking in sixth place in the 2011 Carnival parade, they will be performing at Carnival 2012 on Sunday, February 19th as the third samba school to dazzle the [...]
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