Mardi Gras 2013 may be a distant, blurry memory for its hardcore celebrants, so NolaVie contributor Glen Abbott offers a sober look back at one of the season's funkier parades. The motto of the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus [...]

  Last week, I had the opportunity to ride in my first Mardi Gras parade. Riding in Orpheus was great, but lessons I didn’t expect were learned. For one thing, it was harder than I thought --and a bit [...]

Today's column is a reprise of last year's post-Mardi Gras column. It captured then how I feel those first mornings, days, even weeks after Carnival bids us adieu. It still does. A few months ago, I heard one [...]

When Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans in 1965, none of the homes in our neighborhood had much damage, but of course power was out and people were sweltering in the summer heat, and the children were whining because [...]

Kate McNee was married to a musician for 20 years. So when she and her late husband, Hart McNee, decided in 2007 to start their own Mardi Gras Day parading group, it was only natural that they would [...]

I heard it Saturday at the Super Bowl festivities in Woldenburg Park: Mardi Gras has been cancelled! If the visitor who imparted this news could have seen the crowds at Family Gras in Metairie, she may have assumed [...]