carnival
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There’s an Ojai Fall Festival coming with carnival rides and games Sept. 11-13, followed by the Ojai Film Festival Nov. 5-9.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"A lot of people tend to lose the whole purpose behind the carnival," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
It is Europe's largest street festival and the second-largest carnival in the world, surpassed only by Rio de Janeiro's Carnival in Brazil.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
In recent years, the soccer fields where the event was once held have been filled each June 4 with a carnival featuring foods from around China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A fleet of trucks with monster wheels, followed by other kinds of trucks—food trucks, vans, carnival rides on eighteen-wheelers.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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By the early 1990s, some crews in the U.K. began throwing megaraves more spiritually akin to experiential carnivals than to more lowkey dance-floor-and-DJ setups.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
From there it developed into the post-Lenten carnivals of medieval Europe and the private theatricals of Renaissance courts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The Nuyorican musician would introduce Blades as the new singer of his orchestra, whom he had met years prior while visiting Panama during carnivals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
Sheyi Martins-Allen, 36, has been going to carnivals since she was 10 years old and now brings her young family.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
Sometime in 1925 Johnny and his guardian pulled into the old mining town of Butte, Montana, where the local bullring racetrack linked up with a network of other tracks, carnivals, and fairs.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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