New Orleans officials provide update on increased security for Mardi Gras
This comes ahead of the first big weekend of parades, as well as the recently granted SEAR 1 rating for Mardi Gras.
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The evolution of Mardi Gras home decor: A hurricane hits? We celebrate. Pandemic? We decorate
No stranger to disasters and hardship, New Orleans transforms itself and its traditions based on what befalls it. Take the changes wrought by 2005's Hurricane Katrina, and those from the ...
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When is Mardi Gras? What to know about the New Orleans tradition
Mardi Gras New Orleans says, but other think it began in 1703 in Mobile, Alabama. Famously, Brazilians and Venetians celebrate the holiday with parades, masks and costumes. In both Italy and ...