One small child and five people have been injured in the shooting along the Mardi Gras Parade Route, but two suspects are in custody and three weapons have been confiscated. " Police say an infant and four other...
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As Mardi Gras continues in New Orleans today, aside from the scantily clad dancing girls, the parties, the drunk people falling all over themselves in the street, there is also the unmistakable smell of trash...
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Despite competition from the Giants' parade and Super Tuesday at the polls, the biggest party of the year kicked off today, with celebrations across the world, but the festivities in New Orleans still draws the...
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Are you ready for the Mardi Gras?"Oh yes, there will be Bawd.
Intimately, attached, no doubt, to Sen. David Vitter.
The Krewe du Vieux - a collection of excrutiatingly satirical subkrewes dedicated to the ribald...
"Post-Katrina, it has become commonplace to lament the decline of New Orleans' distinctive character. But nothing cuts closer to the soul of this city's culture—or the origins of American music—than the endangered art and ceremony of the Mardi Gras Indians.
Though...
Let us hope that Major Tom at 5 Years Later is right: At a time when the French newspapers operate through clearly biased anti-American articles (as if the Democrats are the opposite of the Republicans: this comes from very imperfectly knowing America) to promote the victory...
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"As rock bands blasted and tailgate parties served up barbecue and brew,
thousands of people poured into the streets Monday night, hoping to
forget about Hurricane Katrina during a Mardi Gras-like celebration...
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