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2. Mardi Gras is coming. Here's what to know about New Orleans ...

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   Carnival celebrations — parties, fancy masked balls and other markers of the season — may start on Jan. 6, but the big buildup to Mardi Gras happens in New Orleans in the final 12 days of the ...

3. Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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   James R. Creecy in his book Scenes in the South, and Other Miscellaneous Pieces describes New Orleans Mardi Gras in 1835: [3] The Carnival at New Orleans, 1885. Shrove Tuesday is a day to be remembered by strangers in New Orleans, for that is the day for fun, frolic, and comic masquerading.

4. As Mardi Gras nears, a beefed-up police presence and a rain ...

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   New Orleans' annual Carnival celebration entered its high-intensity home stretch Friday with a beefed-up police presence and a weather forecast that threatened to disrupt the first of two weekends ...

5. Krewe du Vieux - Wikipedia

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   Krewe du Vieux only has live music, hiring some of the city's best brass bands to march with them. The floats are handmade and decorated by members of the respective sub-krewes, often with themes satirizing local politics and customs, sometimes of a bawdy nature — in such aspects arguably closer to early-19th-century Carnival traditions than ...

6. Mardi Gras - Wikipedia

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   Mardi Gras (UK: / ˌ m ɑːr d i ˈ ɡ r ɑː /, US: / ˈ m ɑːr d i ɡ r ɑː /; [1] [2] also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. [3]

7. New Orleans, LA Weather - Hourly Forecasts and Local Weather ...

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   Get the New Orleans, LA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Winter storm live tracker: Snowfall maps, current alerts, weather warnings, ice forecasts and more.

8. WATCH: Mardi Gras parade, celebrations kick off in New Orleans

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   Tuesday marks Mardi Gras celebrations across the world, including New Orleans, the center of festivities in North America. You can watch a livestream of the city's annual parade and festivities ...

9. Krewe of Proteus - Wikipedia

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   The Krewe of Proteus is the longest riding Old Line Night Parade Krewe in New Orleans Carnival after the Mistick Krewe and the Knights of Momus stopped parading in 1992. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The parade of the krewe of Proteus traditionally travels an Uptown or St. Charles route ending on Canal Street .