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No Mardi Gras parades, so thousands make ‘house floats’ You just can’t keep a good city down, especially when Mardi Gras is coming. Parade float workers Travis Keene, left, and Joey Mercer position a pelican while fellow crew member Chelsea Kamm, right, looks on while decorating a house in New Orleans. Associated Press photo All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus outbreak canceled the elaborate parades mobbed by crowds during the ...

Thousands of New Orleans residents turn their homes into colorful house floats after the city cancels this years Mardi Gras festival amid the COVID pandemic Tens of thousands of people usually pack into downtown New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras in February and March each year City officials have cancelled this years festivities amid the COVID-19 pandemic  But many locals are refusing to let the pandemic dampen their party spirit, and are now turning their homes into parade floats to bring c...

Across the Country, Capitol Hill Rioters Face Repercussions at Work A printing company in Maryland saw the photo on Twitter the night of Jan. 6: an employee roaming the halls of the U.S. Capitol with a company badge around his neck. He was fired the next day. Others are facing similar repercussions at work for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Some business owners are being trashed on social media and their establishments boycotted, while rank-and-file employees...

Home Malone, 4610 Magazine St. Home Malone and Mignon Faget, both on Magazine Street, have installed storefront floats to bring Carnival to shoppers and passers-by.  Home Malone is festooned with decorative elements from its own shop and those created by Stronghold Studios, complete with their silhouetted “Throw Me Somethin’ Mister” revelers. Kristen Malone said they put their creative minds together and the result is a team effort.    In keeping with Audubon Riverside theme “There...

My New Orleans Culture bearers in New Orleans Eat Farm Fresh with Feed the Second Line and Harvie Feed the Second Line is partnering with Harvie Farms New Orleans to get farm-fresh local food directly to the door steps of culture bearers 01/25/2021 NEW ORLEANS (press release) –This week, Feed the Second Line adds five culture-bearers to the Harvie Farms New Orleans home delivery service. These culture-bearers will receive a customized box of local food from farms and suppliers in Louisiana an...

Restaurants throughout Harford County participate in Restaurant Week, which runs from Jan. 22-31 this year, offering discounts on certain menu items or maybe even offering something new to the respective menu.

My New Orleans 01/22/2021   Each day our walks in Uptown get a little brighter and more whimsical and a lot more festive due to the “house floats,” popping up on people’s porches and in yards throughout the neighborhood. The Krewe of House Floats and Krewe of Red Beans are the driving forces behind the movement designed to offer not only a way for New Orleanians to celebrate Carnival amid the pandemic, but also the initiative to employ the many artists, artisans, musicians and other crea...

Parcels & Posts, 5208 Magazine St. Parcels & Post on Magazine Street is celebrating its 10th anniversary and Carnival in a big way. It will host a float installation to be unveiled in February. Parcels & Post is also helping us celebrate Carnival by offering 20% off the regular shipping price for king cakes. They ship them all over the world. Owner Heidi Hammond and her husband moved to New Orleans in 2007. “We moved here specifically to be part of the rebuilding effort and to help provide a ...

The Krewe of Red Beans will launch an initiative to get New Orleans’ elderly culture bearers vaccinated. It’s called Culture > COVID and is an extension of the krewe’s program Feed the Second Line, which has been delivering boxes of local produce and prepared meals from local restaurants to elderly cultural fixtures since May. “It’s vital that we don’t lose any more culture bearers to COVID,” Red Beans krewe leader Devin De Wulf said. “We’ve already lost quite a few in 2020.�...

My New Orleans 01/20/2021 NEW ORLEANS (press release) – YEAH! YOGA (Youth Empowerment and Healing), a New Orleans non-profit dedicated to sharing the tools of yoga and mindfulness with youth involved with and impacted by the criminal legal system, is hosting its first ever YEAH! YOGA Gras Challenge. Through the social media-based challenge, participants  have a chance to win handcrafted trophies decorated by local Mardi Gras and Dance Krewes. “We wanted to find a way to keep the creativity...