Mardi Gras

Sam Stein

Sturgis Crowd Treats WSJ Reporter Mardi Gras-Style

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

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John McCain's stop Monday at the Sturgis biker rally and his subsequent tongue-in-cheek offer to have his wife participate in the Buffalo Chip Bikini ...

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2008 Fashion Police at the Mardi Gras

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 02.26.2008 | Entertainment

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

If this year's Oscar fashions were too tame for your taste, check out the Saving NOLA Mardi Gras Open House. Styles were more Bjork than Tilda Swinton, so mix up a Sazerac, crank some Subdudes and check it out.

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A Recipe For Super Fat Tuesday: Kingmaker Cupcakes

Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living

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Kerry Trueman

Instead of making the conventional Mardi Gras king cake with only one plastic baby, I'd like to propose a more populist pastry -- the kingmaker cupcake.

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Covered in Flour! Just Back from Carnaval in Colombia

Lea Lane | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living

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Lea Lane

I'm impressed once again by the gusto and courtliness of the Colombian people, and their traditions. Mardi Gras celebrates decadence, and this was a much larger, more joyful celebration of local culture.

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Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and a Meditation on Moderation

Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 02.03.2008 | Living

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Alison Stein Wellner

There's nothing as sad and tacky as a single strand of Mardi Gras beads, but a whole pile of them, gleaming green, gold and purple in the sunlight or streetlight, now that is a thing of beauty to behold.

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Super Duper Fat Tuesday

Will Durst | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

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Will Durst

They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing, you know. Actually, they call it Super Tuesday more for the quantity of states voting and not for the quality of the participants involved.

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Party Like a Rock Star With Rock Stars on Fat Tuesday

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 01.30.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Mardi Gras, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Rock Star, Global Green, Make It Right, Habitat for Humanity, Entertainment News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Backstage at Mardi Gras Day is a celebration for local musicians as well as music lovers and relief workers from Global Green, the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund and Saving NOLA Now right on the parade route.

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New Orleans, The Blind Boys, and Jazz Fest

Sal Nunziato | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Sal Nunziato

Ask anyone from New Orleans, or any outsider that respects New Orleans, and he will tell you. Drunken college kids and exposed body parts is not what Mardi Gras is all about.

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Mardi Gras: In Which I Am Speared in the Head

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

We're going to try to liveblog this year's Global Green / New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund / Saving NOLA Now Backstage at Mardi Gras Benefit which will be held safely indoors.

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A New Orleans Diary -- Two Kinds of Craziness

Harry Shearer | Posted 01.20.2008 | Living

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Harry Shearer

The decorations on the houses in my neighborhood have gone from green and red to purple, green and gold, the annual signal of the transition from "your" holiday season to "ours".

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