New Orleanians both at home and in exile seemed to take it for granted that once the President signed on to some version of the big buyout plan proposed by Representative Baker, the Bring New Orleans Back Commission would hand down solutions like beads from a Mardi Gras float.
ARTHUR HARDY, publisher of a Mardi Gras guide, on the city's decision to stop Mardi Gras parades during Super Bowl weekend.
Pension Plan is a one woman show, written and performed by Leisa Rea, and is perhaps best summed up in her own words as "a mardi gras for the mildly depressed".
"The internet has erupted into a Mardi Gras for paranoids and trolls, a pandemonium of commentary there may not be time in the projected age of the universe to read all the way through," is one hint at the lyricism which might have been, throughout.
For Research on Cancer THURSDAY -- A Mardi Gras-style party with masks at the Puck Building will raise money for the Cancer Research and Treatment Fund, which supports research at the New York Weill Cornell Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital.
This is no Mardi Gras city, and the Colts are not a Mardi Gras team.
(Fitch had worked briefly for a Mardi Gras company, and learned a technique that involved using cardboard strips and contact cement to build figurative objects).
And last, but certainly not least, in the realm of southern decadence, the Ace of Clubs and the Acme Bar and Grill have joined forces for a Mardi Gras super-party, with two floors of "food, beads and booze" and a show by the band Sidewalk Zydeco.
The arrangements for his excellent sextet, which featured the trumpets of Matt Fronke, took him from Hollywood ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which he recalled bringing to B. J. Thomas to sing in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") to New Orleans (a Mardi Gras-flavored "What a Little Moonlight Can Do") and back.
