| The celebration begins on January 6 and culminates on Mardi Gras day, Shrove Tuesday. |
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| Can there be a downer side to Mardi Gras other than the inevitable killer hangover the day after? |
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| Anyone see any of these things mentioned above that would cause any number of nimrods to toss food around the table like beads at Mardi Gras? |
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| Back then, he was wearing the handsome uniform of the Fairfield Central High School marching band as part of a Mardi Gras parade. |
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| Stanley mocks her more by telling her that her outfit is a Mardi Gras costume. |
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| The museum stocks stuff like the necklace Britney wore in a Mardi Gras parade and two dresses from her Star Search days. |
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| A traditional King Cake will be served, and whoever gets the piece containing a bean will win a CD, a drink and a Mardi Gras crown. |
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| No, actually, it's a Mardi Gras king cake, which my attorney was kind enough to send to my office Friday. |
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| A man on the traffic signal above us started beating a Mardi Gras rhythm on a pot. |
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| The Grand Marshals shows a dapper older couple riding on a Mardi Gras float. |
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| By the time the night of the dance arrived, Chub had acquired a Mardi Gras mask and an extra long raincoat to use as a costume. |
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| The annual Caribbean Carnival will top off the festival on June 20 with a Mardi Gras from 7pm-midnight and firework finale. |
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| And if you want Europeans to attend more then make it a Mardi Gras and I think then the mayor will have a tourist attraction. |
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| For the younger generation the Mardi Gras on Saturday night was their night out. |
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| Due to the adverse weather conditions, the club was forced to cancel its annual field day, planned for the Mardi Gras weekend. |
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| Then came the day of their Mardi Gras dance, and everything changed irreversibly. |
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| Unauditable claims about the scores of millions of dollars the Mardi Gras brings to Sydney survive, I believe, on media credulousness. |
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| His show has proven so popular that he's now played gay pride events around the world, including Sydney's Mardi Gras and Berlin's Love Parade. |
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| On Shrove Tuesday, Julie sent her off to school with a traditional Mardi Gras king cake. |
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| Mardi Gras in subsequent years has reverted to its almost slavish devotion to costumery and tradition. |
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| When he died, all the black Mardi Gras Indians came out and kissed the ground in front of his house. |
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| It's a major premiere for the Festival: celebrating Mardi Gras in July with an authentic New Orleans parade! |
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| You've got yourself this Mardi Gras outfit and a whole sack of illusions. |
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| It was battlestations after that as we dashed back into town and tried to get a decent view of the Mardi Gras parade itself, parking ourselves south a bit from Taylor Square. |
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| The straw men, or empaillés, appear on the Sunday before Mardi Gras in the village of Evolène in the Val d'Herens. |
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| For several days she torments her father about throwing a party for Mardi Gras. |
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| If, on the other hand, you simply want to know what went down with a load of noisy gays over the weekend, you'll find the Mardi Gras coverage archived here. |
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| According to a study by Tulane University, Mardi Gras has a positive effect on year-round tourism statistics. |
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| He anoints them with water, pelts them with rocks, and burns Asian bank notes inside the craniums before covering them with Mardi Gras beads and found objects. |
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| She teaches her students about French language and culture by recreating events such as Mardi Gras or Quebec Winter Carnival in her classroom. |
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| Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees was named King of the Bacchus Krewe at this year's Mardi Gras. |
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| When they exit they hear music, follow it, and stumble into a Mardi Gras. |
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| That is the sense of the Saturnalia, of Mardi Gras and of these moments of entertainment. |
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| Several tracks celebrate not only jazz and the marching bands but also that other integral aspect of New Orleans Carnival, the Mardi Gras Indians. |
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| Past activities have included Mardi Gras, pool tournaments, murder mystery dinners, casino nights and scavenger hunts. |
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| When the host is in a festive mood, entering customers are given strings of Mardi Gras beads. |
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| Join us for the Grande soirée Mardi gras à Montréal, an unforgettably unique return trip to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz! |
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| And for the final act, it's nothing short of Mardi Gras in July with the biggest closing soirée we've had in years! |
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| We went out on the town taking in a Mardi Gras like there was no tomorrow. |
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| Gay couples in Mobile were not allowed to wed on February 9th, but many gathered to celebrate anyway before one of the city's Mardi Gras parades. |
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| Half of his face was bearded, the other clean-shaven and sporting lipstick and eyeliner, something so daring that it seemed that Mardi Gras had made an appearance in Sofia. |
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| A touch of Mardi Gras with a carnival type atmosphere was the end result and children of all ages had a memorable experience on this special occasion in Tubbercurry. |
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| It was also a time for mocking everything and everybody at everyone's expense, behind masks, protected by disguises until Mardi Gras. |
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| Video footage from the ROV was an integral part of this outreach and used extensively in the Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck documentary. |
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| But the major event of this year in Vienne, is the reception of musicians from New-Orleans, in solidarity with the city after the passage of Hurricane Katrina, with Dr. John, Eddy Bo and the Indians of Mardi Gras. |
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| The Market is the setting for many popular annual events, including the culinary Tastes of ByWard, the Winterlude Stew Cook-Off, ByWard Market Mardi Gras and more. |
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| Rose Latulipe, a lively 16-year-old, begs her father to celebrate Mardi Gras by inviting all the neighbours to a dance which, she promises, will end at midnight, before Ash Wednesday begins. |
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| The Soirée Mardi Gras in Montréal promises an evening worthy of its beloved namesake, a memorable and unique return trip to the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans! |
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| Mardi Gras is French for 'fat Tuesday', which also traditionally marks the last day of eating richer and fattier foods before a period of restraint. |
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| The other ball was held by the krewe of Comus, the oldest and most exclusive krewe, whose parade to the auditorium that evening had brought the Mardi Gras season to an end. |
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| Bargains have been harder to come by during events like Mardi Gras, but prices drop as the temperature rises, with July and August typically the muggiest and cheapest months. |
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| This collaboration has fueled other research projects including a book on the rural Mardi Gras by Ancelet and Lindahl and a dissertation on the women's rural Mardi Gras by Ware. |
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| On Tuesday, July 6, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal presented by TD in collaboration with Rio Tinto Alcan closes out its 31st edition with a double bill of Mardi gras festivities in a Festival-premiere parade! |
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| The carnival moves through raucous celebrations climaxing on Mardi Gras, and is over on Ash Wednesday. |
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| It's the official after-party to the infamous Azure fete, which traditionally ignites the monthlong Sydney Mardi Gras festival. |
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| Louis distributor, Lohr Distributing, are again teaming up to help prepare local concessionaires for the annual Soulard Mardi Gras celebration. |
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| Larry Bannock was the chief of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans. |
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| Today's wild Mardi Gras parades are much different than the original, more religious events of the Middle Ages. |
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| Mardi Gras King Martin Pruner, 81, said the rain didn't bother him in the least and didn't put a damper on the festivities. |
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| The State Public Services Federation is actively involved in organising a strong visual presence for the labour movement at the Mardi Gras parade, one of the biggest LGBT events in the world. |
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| As a result, Mardi Gras, the culmination of the Carnival season pre-ceding Lent, is observed in Pensacola. |
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| Mardi Gras has been in operation here for the past two weeks, and on Monday last the Trudor sports should have commenced. |
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| Masking skull-and-bones, a traditional Mardi Gras reminder of mortality, seemed appropriate, as bodies were still being discovered in ruined houses. |
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| So the north took to the streets in the dying days of summer for a series of noisy parties: Creamfields in Liverpool, Mardi Gras in Manchester and the Leeds Festival in Yorkshire. |
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| The go-for-baroque glitter of Indian-inspired costumes, designed by Darryl Montana for the Mardi Gras in his native New Orleans, is on show with kinetic work by a Venezuelan artist, Jesus Rafael Soto. |
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| The Birmingham Heritage Festival is a Mardi Gras style event in August. |
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| They will be served on Sunday as a Creole Mardi Gras jazz brunch featuring eggs Hussarde, eggs Sardou, pain perdu, grillades and grits, and both crawfish and okra omelets. |
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