carnival

Born on the carnival circuit, the pseudo-sport maintained a here today-gone tomorrow feeling until relatively recently.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Possible precedents flicker: Maya hieroglyphs, Buddhist mandalas, Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts, Bosch, Gauguin, feathered Trinidadian carnival masks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Janely Montgomery was enjoying a carnival with her friend near Buffalo, N.Y., when she got hungry and stopped by a halal truck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

There were several mice that Abel and Amanda knew, and a family of toads they had once met at a carnival; all the rest were strangers.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

She said the council had spent up to £30,000 in the parade and other St Patrick's Day events and hoped to increase the investment in carnivals and festivals in the coming years.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

An understanding of expected values is helpful in analyzing most casino games, as well as the lesser- known game of chuck-a-luck which is played at carnivals in the Midwest and England.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos