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Mardi Gras King Cake

It is once again Mardi Gras season here in Louisiana. I obsess over the seasonal King Cake, and search for the BEST one by testing out one f...

March 15, 2014 by Planet Joan

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Oh, the heck with it, I’m going to the Mardi Gras…

……or Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans February 12, 2013(one of my nephews birthday)…..The weather had been great all weekend....

July 31, 2013 by BRBill

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All On A Mardi Gras Day Part 3 Rex and more

You see all sort of things on Mardi Gras Day. REX just finished being written by a skywriter, seen walking on Camp Street heading toward ...

March 25, 2012 by BRBill

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All On A Mardi Gras Day Part 2- Zulu and the Indians

The plan, which was gone over in Part 1, was to get to New Orleans early and be on Jackson Avenue for the whole of Zulu. Here leading the Zu...

March 6, 2012 by BRBill

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All On A Mardi Gras Day Part 1- Marching Bands

What’s a parade without a marching band or few. The goal this year was to get outta the house, down to New Orleans and onto Jackson Av...

March 3, 2012 by BRBill

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Bill and Melanie Go See The Mardi Gras Pt.3

And to backtrack to St. Charles Avenue a bit as i forgot to put this in Pt. 2. This is the Beouf Gras, the Fatted Calf, symbolizing the R...

March 26, 2011 by BRBill

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Bill and Melanie Go See The Mardi Gras Pt.2

We’ve seen Zulu parade down Jackson Avenue and some Indians. Now it’s over by 2nd and Dryades by the H&R Bar to see more Ind...

March 19, 2011 by BRBill

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Bill and Melanie Go See The Mardi Gras Pt.1

Up at 5am before the alarm, this is the only day i’ll gladly get up that early. Gaye once made a statement something to the effect ...

March 18, 2011 by BRBill

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Mardi Gras 2011 throws

I don’t know where to begin so let’s start at the end…. Here we have a rather large pile of collected Mardi Gras throws fr...

March 12, 2011 by BRBill

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From Zulu With Love

AS ALWAYS EXCELLENT REPORTAGE!!!...

August 17, 2014 by BRBill

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King Cake

A King Cake is a Brioche style pastry covered with poured sugar, decorated in the traditional Mardi Gras colored sugars, with a plastic baby...

February 16, 2013 by Planet Joan

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Gameday! Tiger Tailgatin’ at the Cleavage….

I always LOVE yourstories andthisonedidn't disappoint! a great adventure! you ZmUST post a photo of the socks!...

October 2, 2012 by BRBill

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Zulu tambourines

Much has been documented about the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club in New Orleans. The parade is the big deal on Mardi Gras Day, starting ...

February 16, 2011 by BRBill

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Flock Of Flamingos Sighting

Looks like the first flock of flamingos has arrived in time for the Spanish Town Mardi Gras Ball and parade here in Baton Rouge. These were ...

February 10, 2011 by BRBill

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Twelfth Night, King Cakes and Joan of Arc

Twelfth Night is the twelfth night of Christmas, Feast Of The Epiphany in Christendom, January 6th, and also the first night of Carnival Sea...

January 31, 2011 by BRBill

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Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club backscratcher

As the old song goes, “Carnival Day, what a big affair”. That would be Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. I imagine some of y’...

December 6, 2010 by BRBill

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Our Lady of the Middle of Nowhere

Both beautiful, and utterly kitschy, from Her slightly oversized, tanned nose, to the statue of Joseph wearing Mardi Gras beads… I fel...

January 28, 2010 by MrBajeebus

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