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Friday, January 06, 2006
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
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The New Orleans Mardi Gras is the high point of Carnival celebrations. The centuries of tradition culminate every year in the a party Bachus himself would envy.
Parade Schedule
Thursday, January 6
Phunny Phorty Phellows - Streetcar route, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 9
Krewe of Claude - Slidell, 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 16
Slidellians - Slidell, 1 p.m.
Krewe of Antony and Cleopatra - Slidell, 1 p.m.
Saturday, January 22
Bilge - Slidell, noon
Krewe of Driftwood - Kenner, 1 p.m.
Krewe du Vieux - French Quarter, 7 p.m.
Sunday, January 23
Little Rascals - Metairie, noon
Perseus - Slidell, 1 p.m.
Krewe of Pearls - Pearl River, 1:15 p.m.
Friday, January 28
Cleopatra - West Bank, 6:30 p.m.
Oshun - Uptown, 6:30 p.m.
Pygmalion - Uptown, 7:30 p.m.
Atlas - Metairie, 7 p.m.
Eve - Mandeville, 7 p.m.
Gladiators - St. Bernard, 7 p.m.
Saturday, January 29
Aladdin - Westbank, noon
Pontchartrain - Uptown, noon
Shangri-La - Uptown, 1:00 p.m.
Sparta - Uptown, 6 p.m.
Pegasus - Uptown, 6:45 p.m.
Caesar - Metairie, 6 p.m.
Olympia - Covington, 6 p.m.
Mona Lisa and Moon Pie Parade - Slidell, 7 p.m.
Sunday, January 30
Carrollton - Uptown, noon
Alla - West Bank, noon
King Arthur & Merlin - Uptown, 1:15 p.m.
Dionysus - Slidell, 1 p.m.
Barkus - French Quarter, 2 p.m.
Bards of Bohemia - Uptown, 2:30 p.m.
Rhea - Metairie, 2:30 p.m.
Mercury - Metairie, 4:00 p.m.
Centurions - Metairie, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 1
Ancient Druids - Uptown, 6 p.m.
Krewe of Morpheus - Uptown, 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday, February 2
Saturn - Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Muses - Uptown, 6:45 p.m.
Thor - Metairie, 7 p.m.
Thursday, February 3
Babylon - Uptown, 5:45 p.m.
Chaos - Uptown, 6:30 p.m.
Excalibur - Metairie, 7 p.m.
Friday, February 4
Hermes - Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Krewe d'Etat - Uptown, 6:30 p.m.
Aquila - Metairie, 7 p.m.
Knights of Jason - Metairie, after Aquila
Orpheus - Mandeville, 7 p.m.
Selene - Slidell, 6:30 p.m.
Aphrodite - Chalmette, 7 p.m.
Pericles - Ponchatoula, TBA
Saturday, February 5
Bush - Bush, 9 a.m.
NOMTOC - West Bank, 11:30 a.m.
Iris - Uptown, 11:30 a.m.
Krewe of Salt Bayou - Slidell, noon
Ulysses - West Bank, 12:30 p.m.
Tucks - Uptown, 1 p.m.
Lul - Luling, 1 p.m.
Towahpasah - Reserve, 1 p.m.
Wrecks - Springfield, 1 p.m.
MCCA - Bogalusa, 2 p.m.
Endymion - Mid-City, 4:30 p.m.
Isis - Metairie, 6 p.m.
Sunday, February 6
Tchefuncte - Madisonville, 10 a.m.
Okeanos - Uptown, 11 a.m.
Thoth - Uptown, 11:30 a.m.
Adonis - West Bank, Noon
Mid-City - Uptown, 2 p.m.
Bacchus - Uptown, 5:15 p.m.
Napoleon - Metairie, 5:30 p.m.
Monday, February 7
Proteus - Uptown, 5:15 p.m.
Orpheus - Uptown, 5:45 p.m.
Zeus - Metairie, 6:30 p.m.
Mardi Gras, February 8
Zulu - Uptown, 8:30 a.m.
Rex - Uptown, 10 a.m.
Argus - Metairie, 10 a.m.
Lions - Covington, 10 a.m.
Elks - Jeff. - Metairie, 11 a.m.
Grela - West Bank, 11 a.m.
Elks - Gretna - West Bank, after Grela
Jefferson - Metairie, 11 a.m.
New Roads - New Roads, 11 a.m.
Elks- Orl. - Uptown, 11:30 a.m.
Crescent City - Uptown, after Elks
Krewe of Choctaw - Grenta, noon
Skunks - Lacombe, 1 p.m.
Chahta-Ima - Lacombe, 1:30 p.m.
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Mardi Gras gives back to the community (Lake Wales News)
Ask someone what comes to mind when you hear the words ?Lake Wales Mardi Gras,? and the reply you get will probably be: ?beads, parade, music, excitement, food and fun?.
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Men's Final Four returning to New Orleans in 2012 (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Ellis Lucia/The Times-PicayuneSyracuse coach Jim Boeheim cuts down the nets when his team won the national championship in 2003, the last time the Final Four was in New Orleans. The Final Four is coming back to New Orleans. Five years...
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Post-Katrina New Orleans dishes up a tasty mix (Leader-Telegram)
NEW ORLEANS - On a family-bonding road trip to the Big Easy during which I crossed the borders of seven states, I had hoped to gauge reaction to the recent presidential election in areas that traditionally are fire-engine red.
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New Orleans cemeteries being revived as attractions after neglect (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
NEW ORLEANS - On a recent morning, Jeffrey Scott stood before Marie Laveau's tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, shaking a cigarette out of a pack to leave as an offering for the famous voodoo queen.
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Rebuilding New Orleans: Ten coolest innovators (WDAM-TV Hattiesburg)
Three years after Katrina, the nation's most expensive hurricane, which cost insurers an estimated $44 billion, came Gustav. As if New Orleans needed its rebuilding project to get any harder. And yet, there's hope.
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Rebuilding New Orleans: Ten coolest innovators (KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches)
To underscore how far the city has come since Katrina, the New Orleans 100 lists projects that are bringing new vitality to the city. Here are 10 of the most innovative ventures.
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Burris vs. Calvillo just part of appeal (Canada.com)
MONTREAL - As a visitor this week, there is reason to fear Montreal. Parties are never hard to find in the days before Grey Cup, but when the festival gets mixed in with this city, it could be like Las Vegas and Times Square having a baby, and letting New Orleans raise it during Mardi Gras.
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Peter Schjeldahl: The New Orleans Biennial beckons. (The New Yorker)
New Orleans is smaller and poorer than it used to be, as I have confirmed on my first visit there since the floods attendant on Hurricane Katrina obliterated a large part of the city and left much of the rest a mud-gray mess, traces of which aren?t hard to . . .
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WYES dredges up fond memories of 'Growing Up In New Orleans' in latest documentary (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Local celebs dish on their "Big Easy" upbringings
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Lakers Coach Phil Jackson should say no more about New Orleans (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Michael DeMocker, The Times-PicayuneLakers Coach Phil Jackson doesn't miss New Orleans, or 'that mildew smell,' when he's not here. Let's give Lakers Coach Phil Jackson his due: He wins basketball games. If you want to offer the opinion that Jackson...
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