Venice is a place where dressing up as a character is popular during Carnival. Many people can rent one of Nicolao's costumes ...

The city traded its workday routine for beads, music and Mardi Gras spirit Tuesday as the Krewe of Real People the Next Generation held its annual Fat Tuesday parade.

Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, marks the climax and end of the weekslong Carnival season and a final chance for ...

The Olympic cauldrons were lit in Milan and Cortina, symbolizing the start of the Games. Located in Milan at the Arco della Pace and in Cortina d'Ampezzo in Piazza Dibona, the cauldrons pay homage to ...

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is complete at Milan's San Siro Stadium. Featuring simultaneous ceremonies in the mountain towns of Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo, the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - The African American Parade Celebration in Shreveport will celebrate its 38th year on Saturday with a big parade. This year the event will feature the national theme, A Century of ...

The Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics just kicked off an unprecedented four-site, dual-cauldron Opening Ceremony. The main hub Friday was in Milan at San Siro soccer stadium. There were also three other ...

WASHINGTON — The Parade of Nations at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony took place at four locations, meaning athletes walked out amid many different environments. The primary location for the ...

Last month, while scrambling to make a flight out of Newark Airport, I was detained by the TSA. All because of a few baubles. “They’re not weapons. It’s costume jewelry,” I said to the officer as he ...

MILAN, Italy — It's as iconic as the Olympic rings and the lighting of the cauldron. The Parade of Nations during the Winter Olympics' Opening Ceremony acts as an introduction for every country ...

The Brazilian team brought the energy to their intros at the Opening Ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, showing off with some cartwheels and a backflip.

Editor's note: Follow Olympics opening ceremony updates from Milano Cortina. The U.S. was the third-to-last country to enter, preceding France, host of the 2030 Winter Games in the French Alps, and ...