Go for a checkered print or a stripe pattern, those are the most common styles of dresses for Mardi-Gras.
On a recent Friday night, a couple hundred influentials gathered for a Mardi Gras-themed birthday party for Betsy Fischer, the executive producer of "Meet the Press".
4. Create a design for a Mardi Gras-style float to represent this celebration.
I provide immunization services and health education—especially for mother and child health, and health education for environmental sanitation," Mardi explains.
"You can actually see the stitching in the thermal blanket; there's wiring in there also for the [heatshield sensors]." Eventually hundreds of Mardi pictures will be run together to make a movie of the descent.
"They go north for Mardi Gras," she said.
"Your dressing room will be more of a boudoir, where you and your friends can get ready for Mardi Gras," he said.
Another friend is there just for Mardi Gras, mostly to take in as much brilliant Crescent City music as he can.
About a year after his diagnosis, Katz went to visit some friends in New Orleans who had rented a crash pad for Mardi Gras.
