Pia Peterson Haggarty

Feb 9, 2024 | wsj.com | Pia Peterson Haggarty

By In February and March, Christian communities around the globe mark the approach of Lent, a solemn season of fasting, with a celebration lasting late into the night. Brazil’s Carnival and New Orleans’s Mardi Gras are two of the most famous examples, but similar festivals are held everywhere from Switzerland to Slovenia to Guinea-Bissau. In Cajun country in Louisiana, revelers chase after a live chicken, an ingredient in the traditional gumbo.

Feb 9, 2024 | wsj.com | Pia Peterson Haggarty

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Nov 10, 2023 | wsj.com | Pia Peterson Haggarty

By | Photographs by For over a decade, photographer Christopher Payne has been documenting people, processes and products at U.S. factories. The subjects in his new book “Made in America” (Abrams) range from cutting-edge facilities that produce quantum computers and vaccines to the Bollman Hat Company factory in Adamstown, Pa., where workers use steam to shape felted hats in a process only slightly changed since the 19th century.

Jul 28, 2023 | wsj.com | Pia Peterson Haggarty

Tickets to the five-day Barbie convention, which can run $475, sold out this year less than seven hours after going on sale to the general public, said Linda Levine, co-chair of the convention, which has been held almost every year since 1980. They’re expecting tickets to sell out again in 2024.

Jul 27, 2023 | wsj.com | Pia Peterson Haggarty

TIRED OF sweating through outfits and melting through sunscreen and makeup once they step outdoors, some Americans are taking cooling into their own hands—literally.