Carnival in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, known as the "Fifth Season," kicks off on November 11, and the festivities are going to ramp up by the New Year. The season is marked by ...

Celebrated at the beginning of March, southern Germany's Fasching Carnival is known for having a dark side that dates back to its medieval founding. Spend a while in southern Germany and you might ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany – That crazy time in Germany is underway. Fasching is a pre-Lent celebration like Mardi Gras or Carnival. In northern Germany, they call it Fastnacht or Karneval, but Fasching is ...

The Fasching or carnival season is also known as the "fifth season" in Germany. It is a time when Germans loosen up a little, dress up in funny costumes and party for days at a time. Carnival has a ...

Five men young men wearing balaclavas on Tuesday spooked residents along Alex-Mueller-Strasse enough to draw police to the scene for questioning. Bank-robber chic isn’t in itself illegal; the five men ...

It’s Carnival, German style, a time of really cutting loose before the austerity of Lent. You can’t have a Fasching without a king and queen to rule over the festivities, so a royal pair was drawn by ...

PHOTO: This year why not do St. Valentine's Day in Venice and then do Carnival as well? Carnival is coming, with Fat Tuesday falling this year on Feb. 17 just three days after another popular holiday, ...