Horses Get To Work During Mardi Gras. How the New Orleans Police Department prepares their horses for the "Blaring bands and waving flags, stumbling drunks and splashing beer, glittery trinkets flying toward curb-to-curb crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands."

Some pictures from the parades we saw on Thursday night.


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nolagrl isn't the only one with a world-famous brother. A picture of my sweet and funny brother, Dale, is in The Age of Australia. He is shown celebrating Mardi Gras with his sign and a box of wine.


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There's no official six-month anniversary of Hurricane Katrina because there's no February 29th this year. But everyone is treating today as the half-year mark of the storm's landfall ( Read more... )

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Snopes investigates the veracity of the free pancake offer at IHOP on National Pancake Day.

My friend, nolagrl is now a Mardi Gras immortal. Read her entry about tonight's parade to find out why.

Pictures from Krewe of Muses on Thursday, 02/23/06.


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Juannie and I recently watched "Mardi Gras: Made In China." The documentary shows where and how the beads thrown during Mardi Gras parades are made contrasting the poor conditions of the young Chinese women working in the factories with the carefree attitudes of young American women during the Carnival season in New Orleans ( Read more... )

Here are a few pictures from the parades I went to on Sunday.


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I currently have a calendar featuring pictures from Scotland and noticed that it lists the holidays on 02/28 as Mardi Gras and Shrove Tuesday (UK). When I was a child, I remember a few older people calling the day before Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tuesday. I never knew the origin of that name for the holiday. Now I do ( Read more... )