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His father was a drummer, and when Gadson and his brother were teenagers they played in a doo-wop group called the Carpets.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Carpets of yellow, orange and gold flowers are beginning to cover Southern California’s vast deserts, the Bay Area’s dramatic bluffs and even near Los Angeles International Airport.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024

Carpets of gold, burrowing toads and fairy shrimp all depend on vernal pools—habitats that, most of the time, do not exist.

From Scientific American • May 3, 2023

Peake plays Meredith Ankle, matriarch of the am-dram group and owner of Ankle Carpets.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2022

Carpets throughout the house had been flipped over and torn.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood