Joe Soucheray: It's still the Winter Carnival ... I think - Pioneer Press

Joe Soucheray: It's still the Winter Carnival ... I think
Pioneer Press
A young girl who I was trying to indoctrinate into the legend and rituals of the Winter Carnival looked out the window of the bus and swooned as Jack Sparrow walked by. He cut a swarthy figure, this Jack Sparrow, authentic as Johnny Depp himself, ...

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Winter Carnival Recollections - Dartmouth Review

Winter Carnival Recollections
Dartmouth Review
With Winter Carnival only a few weeks away, the internet has again started to take notice. Richard Press, about whom I've written before, has another post up on style website Ivy Style, this one on Carnival legend Budd Schulberg, whose adventures with ...

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Dutch on edge over legendary Eleven Cities ice race - Herald Sun


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Dutch on edge over legendary Eleven Cities ice race
Herald Sun
A century later, after the Reformation, which deprived Dutch Protestants of carnival, the ice quickly became "the place were anything was permitted". "On the ice, everybody was equal," Koolhaas added. In 1986, crown prince Willem-Alexander, then 18, ...
Dutch on edge for word on unique ice race Sin Chew Jit Poh

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Boreas Rex Steve Cortinas, Carnival's first Hispanic in role, is 'America's story' - Pioneer Press

Boreas Rex Steve Cortinas, Carnival's first Hispanic in role, is 'America's story'
Pioneer Press
And although his immediate family - wife, Joy, and three sons - is well-versed in carnival legend, his Texas relatives are less attuned. "Nobody's coming up from Eden. When I talk carnival to 'em, it's like I'm talking a foreign language," Cortinas ...

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Bush legend: Mick Cleeland - Weekly Times Now

Bush legend: Mick Cleeland
Weekly Times Now
A troublesome hip has forced his premature retirement, but he has a hands-on interest in this year's carnival side with Waaia pair Chris Armstrong and Englishman Alex Osmond among the MV's representative squad. Cleeland is proud Waaia, population 92, ...

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Local music legend Jeff Johnson passes… - Volume One (blog)

Local music legend Jeff Johnson passes…
Volume One (blog)
Jeff Johnson – perhaps best known for the bands Tatters and Another Carnival – passed away very early Sunday morning (1/22) due to health issues. He was 48. Back in the eighties and well into the nineties, Jeff Johnson was all over the Chippewa Valley ...

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Kissick knocks back metropolitan offers - Daily Advertiser (blog)

Kissick knocks back metropolitan offers
Daily Advertiser (blog)
Murphy hopes Merlin Mustang, with only six starts to his name, can now measure up to a better class race during the autumn carnival in Sydney. FORM ER Southern District stayer Leica Larrikin is gearing up for his Autumn return.

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