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News Articles: Mardi Gras

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Trump says nobody has heard of Lesotho. Can you answer our quiz question about it?

It was another action-packed week, with the Academy Awards, Mardi Gras and the president's address to Congress. Did you pay attention?

March 07, 2025
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  • Holly J. Morris
Trash lines the gutter on Bourbon Street, in the early hours of the morning after Mardi Gras, in New Orleans, Feb. 18, 2015. It's a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with outstretched arms.

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Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans are creating an environmental concern

Despite a daily cleanup that leaves the post-parade landscape remarkably clean, uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground into the mud under the feet of passers-by.

February 12, 2024
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Warren Easton Charter High School's marching band members line up in formation. Their instruments, among many, include sousaphones, cymbals, and a drum section with snare, tenor and bass drums.

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With the return of Mardi Gras marching bands, New Orleans' streets are full of magic

The bands may be smaller this year, but students say they're prepared to keep the culture alive and entertain hundreds of thousands of revelers.

March 01, 2022
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  • Aubri Juhasz
Just because the Mardi Gras parades are canceled, it hasn't stopped people's creativity. The "Little Shop of 2020 Horrors" house float is in the Algiers Point neighborhood of New Orleans.

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In A Year Without Parades, Mardi Gras In New Orleans Is All About House Floats

New Orleans officials canceled all the Mardi Gras parades this year. But that didn't stop some residents from getting into the spirit anyway. They decorated their houses for drive-through parades.

February 16, 2021
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  • Aubri Juhasz
Bourbon Street is a sea of humanity on Mardi Gras in New Orleans in February. The city will not allow Mardi Gras parades in 2021.

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New Orleans Mayor Cancels Mardi Gras Parades In 2021

"With COVID-19 cases increasing around the country, we will have to modify how to observe [Carnival] season," the mayor said. She's asking for alternative ideas from the public.

November 17, 2020
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  • Elie Levine

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