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Feb 5, 2024 · The all-male krewe has been staging Mardi Gras events in New Orleans since 1872 and are the ones who started the tradition of using the holiday’s famous colors: yellow, purple, and green.
Feb 17, 2021 · Mardi Gras 2021 will go down in history as the year New Orleanians came together and turned a sow’s ear into a paper mache purse…and shoe…and giant octopus. In a year when Covid-19 kept the crowds away, locals proved once and for all that Carnival is first and foremost for us.
The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in southern Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through Shrove Tuesday , the day before Ash Wednesday (the start of lent in the Western Christian tradition).
Feb 10, 2021 · The rules, in place from 6 a.m. Friday, February 12 to 6 a.m. Wednesday, February 17, range from a citywide bar shut down and ban on to-go alcohol sales, to street closures and fines for loitering....
Jan 25, 2010 · Mardi Gras is a Christian holiday and popular cultural phenomenon that dates back thousands of years to pagan spring and fertility rites. It's most famously celebrated with parades in...
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Jan 27, 2021 · The New Orleans Carnival season kicked off in early January, and the city-wide party looks a whole lot different than it has in years past. From creative, socially-distant takes on festival traditions to virtual events galore, here’s how the Crescent City is handling its signature celebration.
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Feb 21, 2023 · Encounters between rival bands of Indians often led to violence, with tribes using the raucous celebration as a day “to settle scores,” according to the Mardi Gras New Orleans website.
