Mardi Gras

New Orleans Halloween 2009: Gear up for spectacular fright The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com Krewe of Boo Parade, Saturday, October 24, approx. 6 pm, starts Elysian Fields and Decatur. Mardi Gras impressario Blain Kerne's innaugural parade. ... and more »

Man shot in Algiers near Super Sunday parades dies Someone shot Reeder in the head and body near the corner of LB Landry Avenue and Ptolemy Street about 6:58 pm Sunday, as parades put on by Mardi Gras Indians passed a couple of blocks away, the New Orleans Police Department said. ...

NOLA.com, LA The week before Mardi Gras, she headlined a sold-out show titled the "Sissy Bounce Sweethearts' Ball" at One Eyed Jacks in the French Quarter. She also appeared on the Congo Square Stage at Jazz Fest with fellow sissy rappers Big Freedia and Sissy ...

The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA Grand Tastings: Tasting stations feature 75 chefs and 1000 vintages, along with a Carnival-style parade with the Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians, at Louisiana Superdome, enter at Gate A on Poydras Street. ($89 in advance, $100 onsite; no strollers ...

NOLA.com, LA The concert takes place at 9 pm on Friday, May 22 at Tipitina's Uptown (501 Napoleon Ave) and benefits Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO) -- a non-profit organization that provides social services and economic development programs to musicians, Mardi Gras ...

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by The Times-Picayune Family Gras, Jefferson Parish's answer to the cavalcades of New Orleans Mardi Gras revelry, grossed $6.3 million this year, the Jefferson Convention and Vistiors Bureau reported today. That total more than doubles the $3 million ...

Grand Tastings: Tasting stations feature 75 chefs and 1000 vintages, along with a Carnival-style parade with the Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians, at Louisiana Superdome, enter at Gate A on Poydras Street. ($89 in advance, $100 onsite; no strollers ...

NOLA.com, LA To further enliven the monumental dog, Rodrigue plans to apply large-scale seasonal plastic stickers -- like those seen on public buses -- that might include the American flag, a Mardi Gras mask, and Christmas gifts. ...

NOLA.com, LA The timeline for construction calls for the auditorium to close March 1, after next year's Carnival season, in part to allow the city's Mardi Gras krewes to hold their events at the building. The work could be complete as early as January 2011, ...

That was my first Mardi Gras. And I read about it and looked at pictures. I felt like the name (of the album) had a tone to it that was Mardi Gras. So I had the idea of making the GrooGrux an imaginary Mardi Gras parade. You drew an old float pulled by ... Day 7 New Orleans Jazzfest eJazzNews

By Dave Walker Staff writer HBO will produce a full season of "Treme," a drama series set against the unique New Orleans backdrop of second-line parades, brass bands and Mardi Gras Indians, bringing with it tens of millions of dollars in spending, ...

The shooting took place on Mardi Gras at midday on St. Charles Avenue near the intersection of Second Street, as floats in a truck parade passed. Two rival groups of young men -- one group dressed in black, the other in red -- squared off, New Orleans ...

Photographer Jules Kahn, a friend of Davis' parents, introduced him to New Orleans street culture: second-lines, jazz funerals, Mardi Gras Indian practices. Theirs were often the only white faces. "I thought that was normal life," Davis said. ...

Sexually explicit throws banned from Slidell Mardi Gras parades The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - Christine Harvey, Christine Harvey

Arts, Music, Movie Reviews, Celebrity News & Events from New Orleans Friends since childhood, Boudreaux and Dollis grew up to lead rival Mardi Gras Indian "gangs." They joined forces to front the Wild Magnolias electric funk band, whose 1974 debut introduced Mardi Gras Indian musi...

by The Times-Picayune New Orleans Police have identified another "perpetrator" in the Mardi Gras shootings on St. Charles Avenue. Gerard Gray, 18, was identified by police Monday night. His last known address was 602 N. St. Patrick St. Seven people ...

The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA Because the wreckage was found near the Mardi Gras Transmission System's pipeline, it has become known as the Mardi Gras shipwreck. The ship Irion learned about had sailed into the Gulf late in 1813, bound for Havana, after a stop in New Orleans for ...

By Poynter Institute Monday, Feb. 27: Tuesday, Feb. 28: Wednesday, March 1: The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported on the first post-Hurricane Katrina Mardi Gras. Throughout the week, there was a great deal of media coverage about Mardi Gras and the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.