48. The Krewe of Zulu began celebrating in New Orleans parades in 1909. 49. One of the most desired Mardi Gras trinkets from New Orleans celebrations is the Golden Coconut, which is tossed out in ...

The Mardi Gras revelry in this city is known the world ... or visitors who want to climb aboard a float and throw these trinkets to the crowds. And these sales fund the parades themselves, as ...

Members ride the floats during the parades, tossing trinkets into the crowds that line the routes. The krewes are showcased in the parades but their club activities and traditional Mardi Gras ...

With the sun rising, people stumbled out of bars and saluted the trash collectors. A drunken couple shrieked and leaped onto ...

The distribution of beads and other trinkets is random, excessive, profligate — in short, a reveler's rebuke to any student of logistics. As for the Mardi Gras diet — king cakes, cocktails ...

“I’ve never missed a Mardi Gras and I never will,” she added ... Children, perched on shoulders or custom-painted ladders, caught trinkets and throws the way their parents once did.

We love Mardi Gras, and Opelousas was great today," she ... and participants tossing beads and trinkets to the crowd. Noah Fernandez, a parade-goer, says he had a successful day, catching fun ...

Lucero’s first book was the romance suspense novel, “Waves Crashing.” She followed that up with the science fiction ...