Glittered shoes are distinctively New Orleans works of art. They are projects of love, given freely each year, handed downward by Mardi Gras float riders into a sea of parade-goers, an act intended to connect with a member of the crowd, waiting...
I awoke this morning to a Mardi Gras wonderland, surrounded by bead bags in the process of being filled to the brim. Recycled cardboard boxes and a mountain of cellophane circulated under foot. The bags of secret Krewe of Muses wonders pictured...
General observation: Writers often sit down at a keyboard and come up with thoughts that had never occurred to them before. Their own words surprise them. Mardi Gras does that to people; it brings to the surface the weird and creative in whoever...
In the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, you can tell natives from visitors and newcomers by the way they act at parades. The fresh ones are the skinny, 5-foot, 10-inch-tall (most of them – it’s odd) white guys with short hair and...
Muses Bead Order Deadline Night – I enjoy this evening each year. In a few hours, the deadline will arrive for Krewe of Muses members to submit orders for beads and various other “throws” to toss from their floats in next year’s Muses Mardi...
1140 St. Charles Ave., Lower Garden District, New Orleans: This is where I work. I helped a co-worker paint these boards in February 2006, six months after Hurricane Katrina. I have installed them every Carnival season since then to protect this...
I write a lot about Uptown New Orleans because that’s where I am most of the time. I don’t live there, but I have worked in the Lower Garden District for 13 years as of this past Wednesday, which has taught me how to park without getting...
I will begin with an Uptown report as I haven’t been downtown or to the French Quarter or anywhere else lately unless you count Interstate 10, which I don’t. I was in Metairie once but I wasn’t paying attention. I’m...
I like to say Mardi Gras is about love. It sounds trite but what else could it be? It’s history, yes. It’s tradition. It’s pageantry, nonsense, blasphemy and religion. It’s food, drink, art, music, dance, light, color, and, in spite of the police...
In past years, by this far into the New Orleans Carnival season I would have checked on the city and reported how she was doing. I would have tried to help you see and feel the cultural sea change that takes place here at this time every year...
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