Mardi Gras Was Different Before Converting to Catholicism

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday is THE tourist and local extravaganza in New Orleans.  The noblesse oblige historic parade krewes with the old white kings and young debutante queens throwing beads to the masses is a hard swallow even as the parades have become …

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New Twists for Mardi Gras

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pistol-Annies-01-Best-Years-Of-My-Life-200012144.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       The song goes, “have you ever been to Mardi Gras,” and I can honestly say, “been there, done that!”  I’m somewhere between Carnival-skeptic and agnostic. Historically, the city can’t live with it and can’t live without it.  There’s almost nothing about its mainline history …

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