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The announcement came as the New Orleans City Council voted Thursday (May 16) to remove the krewe from the 2025 Mardi Gras lineup. The council voted in favor to revoke the krewe’s permit by a New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Thursday to nix the Krewe of Nyx from the official Mardi Gras parade calendar. Why it matters: The ordinance, pending Mayor LaToya Cantrell's signature, puts an exclamation point at the end of a string of controversies for the Carnival krewe that once thundered down the route as one of the city's largest. The controversial Mystic Krewe of Nyx was booted off the Mardi Gras parade schedule on Thursday when the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to strike it from the city's list of officially The Krewe of Nyx parade will start immediately after the Krewe of Ancient Druids. The krewe will start at the intersection of Magazine Street and Jefferson Avenue in New Orleans. The parade will proceed east on Magazine until Napooleon Avenue, where the krewe will turn north (left). The Krewe of Nyx float rolls with the Krewe of Pandora parade along Veterans Boulevard in Metairie, La., Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. The krewe was joined by six floats from the Nyx parade that were In May, the New Orleans Council voted to revoke the Mystic Krewe of Nyx’s parade permit for 2025. Nyx has traditionally rolled behind Druids on the Wednesday before Mardi Gras. In April, City Councilman JP Morrell accused Nyx of parading without the required number of marching bands. This was the first new Mardi Gras Krewe created in over a decade. In less than three months upon receiving the City Council's approval, the Mystic Krewe of Nyx paraded on the streets of New Orleans for the first time on February 15, 2012, with 534 riders. The Mystic Krewe of Nyx which was once one of Mardi Gras' largest Krewes could be nyxed from the uptown route. The krewe has been plagued by several controversies in recent years including a mass The Krewe of Nyx in New Orleans has earned the honor of being the biggest Mardi Gras parade in history. With over 3348 riders in its 2018 parade, the all-female krewe has broken barriers for the Super Krewes and has raised the bar for parades everywhere. Alla used to roll after the Krewe of Cleopatra, kicking off the first full weekend of parades before Mardi Gras weekend. Nyx had its parade permit revoked in May of 2024 after the krewe was NEW ORLEANS — In the city that turns fun and festivity into an art form, Carnival is the pinnacle. And while some traditions go back more than a century, the all-female parading Krewe of Nyx The Krewe of Nyx in New Orleans has earned the honor of being the biggest Mardi Gras parade in history. With over 3348 riders in its 2018 parade, the all-female krewe has broken barriers for the Super Krewes and has raised the bar for parades everywhere. Sheriff seizes controversial Krewe of Nyx Mardi Gras den for nonpayment of $671,000 loan. Once the biggest Carnival parade, now gone. Nyx has been nixed from the 2025 float parade lineup after New Orleans City Council members voted to pull the krewe's permit, deciding the group violated official Mardi Gras rules. NEW ORLEANS — When the Mystic Krewe of Nyx paraded in 2020, it was among the largest in Carnival. RELATED: Updated Mardi Gras 2022 Parade Schedule. RELATED: Krewe of Nyx 2022: Parade route The Krewe of Bosom Buddies & Breast Friends is a walking krewe that parades in the French Quarter on the Friday before Mardi Gras. Founded in 2013, they set out to create “a laid-back, inexpensive, fun, colorful and fearless walking krewe full of fabulous women and the men who support them.&rd Krewe of ALLA’s first Black queen, Gian Durand, has dedicated her ride to the spirit of Dorothy Mae Taylor and diversity in Mardi Gras. ALLA replaces the notorious Nyx parade this year. For the Krewe of Nyx, the brand new purse float made its debut on the streets of New Orleans in the 2016 parade for the krewe’s 5th anniversary. 16 lucky ladies rode down St. Charles Avenue in a huge pink purse that became the first signature Mardi Gras float for Nyx. It is a spectacular sight to see each year, and the end result was surely Mystic Krewe of Nyx, New Orleans, Louisiana. 15,656 likes · 3 talking about this · 9,502 were here. The largest all female Mardi Gras Krewe in New Orleans' history. A social media post shared among former members of the Mystic Krewe of Nyx on Tuesday revealed that the Mardi Gras parading organization required prospective members to have been designated female
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