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
It also carries a picture taken at the 60th edition of the Notting Hall carnival, which began on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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
D'Wit had been viewed by people living on Mersea Island as a pillar of the close-knit community, having volunteered at a soup kitchen and helped with the town carnival.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
They are remembering while they whisper the carnival dolls they won and the Baltimore boats they never sailed on.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
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
Families popped it over wood stoves; peddlers sold it in paper cones at circuses, carnivals and busy promenades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said the use of live facial recognition, metal detector and stop-and-search had "prevented some of the serious violence we have seen at previous carnivals".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
He subsequently moved to Venice, which soon became as obsessed with opera as it had traditionally been with carnivals, and the world’s first public opera house, San Cassiano, opened there in 1637.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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