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As Mardi Gras celebrations prepare to take over New Orleans on Tuesday, the South faces a mounting weather threat, with forecasters warning of intense storms that could bring damaging winds, large 1 Dead, 4 Wounded in Shooting at New Orleans Parade Ahead of Mardi Gras The victims, one of whom was a 4-year-old girl, were shot at the Krewe of Bacchus Parade on Sunday night. One person was Local, state and federal officials are planning new and expanded security efforts in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl this year, after a terrorist attack in the city killed 14 people Mardi Gras is on March 4, and as some New Orleanians are fond of saying, “Everywhere else, it’s just Tuesday.” Here are a dozen recipes to celebrate. But this year, Johnson, a New Orleans-area native, did not know what to expect during Mardi Gras. Only two months ago, a driver raced a rented Ford F-150 truck down several crowded blocks of New York Times Cooking offers subscribers recipes, advice and inspiration for better everyday cooking. From easy weeknight dinners to holiday meals, our recipes have been tested and perfected to meet the needs of home cooks of all levels. Subscribe now for full access. On average, over one million tourists enter the city in the final days before Mardi Gras, more than three times the city’s 2024 population of 357,767. The increase in people has an undeniable Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, which takes place March 4, marks the party’s climax and the end of Carnival Season on the Gulf Coast. The New York Times, The Washington Post or Bloomberg News Zulu queen Crystal Monique Guillemet waves to the crowd during the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club parade on Mardi Gras in New Orleans on March 1, 2022. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File) Spiced and filling red beans and rice — the traditional Monday dish in New Orleans — fit the bill for a bit of pregaming on Lundi Gras, the day before Mardi Gras. This recipe, from the journalist Pableaux Johnson , who died in January, has been perfected over years of Monday gatherings at his grandmother’s kitchen table, with spicy Across New Orleans, in a combination of joy, defiance, trepidation and celebration, Mardi Gras returned on Tuesday with one eye on the pain of the past two years in a city especially hard hit by With the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras coming, Gov. Jeff Landry is using the emergency order from the New Year’s attack on Bourbon Street to remove the homeless from downtown. William Widmer for The New York Times. By Campbell Robertson. Feb. 10, 2016; Everyone has a general idea of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, even if the reality is nothing like the citywide drunken DAY 6 | 02.21 10:17 A.M. The Blood of the Lower Ninth. Claiborne Street used to be one of the main streets of black New Orleans. It was a long avenue with a sheltering double row of oak trees, and on Mardi Gras Day it was an African-American parade ground. Of course Mardi Gras is about boundless revelry: the weeks of balls and the parades that shower the streets of New Orleans with beads. But beneath all that, it is also a period of metamorphosis. Arthur Hardy, the publisher of an annual New Orleans Mardi Gras guide, began searching in the 1980s for a film of the parade that old silent film catalogs said had been produced in the 19th century. News about Mardi Gras, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Click on the Mardi Gras krewes below for further information about the krewe and to see their usual route for each parade. Please note: Events and activities are subject to change without notice. Stay tuned to the site for further info. L. Kasimu Harris for The New York Times. New Orleans has again entered Mardi Gras season — the big finale, Fat Tuesday, is Feb. 16 — and Ms. Watts, like many bar owners, has yet to sell With two teenagers in tow, a single mother in New Orleans looked for her future empty nest along the Mardi Gras parade route. Here’s what she found. In the summer of 1987, Ohio University
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