Isabel Eva:
Dear Tara, dear Karina,
I found your site looking for photos on El Bolsón. Do you mind ...
Karina:
Hi Leah,
Thank you for getting in touch. We're glad to hear you enjoyed the photos! Feel ...
Leah:
TKGO,
I found your site by looking for arctic/antarctic photos. Could I use one of your p...
Karina:
Hi Ana,
Thank you for your comment. Croatia is definitely on our list of places to visit...
Karina:
Hello, Cherie! Thank you for your comment and for sharing your wealth of knowledge about t...
Beads thrown from the floats get caught in trees off the parade routes. You can still find them dangling there all year long. Thanks for reading all our Mardi Gras 2011 coverage this week! Let us know if you’re going next year… -Tara for TKGO
Continue Reading →
Mardi Gras is all about sharing. When you want something your neighbor caught four of, you’ll believe me. But there are some items you won’t give away, no matter how much little kids stare and adults drool. Ladies and gentlemen, TKGO picks the top throws from Mardi Gras 2011: So how do you catch these awesome things? A few tips: Beggars can’t be choosers. A sign that reads “Mini Hurricane Glasses, Please!” will only get you angry glares. But at [...]
Continue Reading →
Zulu feels different from many of the other parades. They borrow a few floats from other krewes and throw beads made for parades as far back as 2009, but the sentiment here is unrivaled. The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club isn’t called a krewe—it was founded in 1916 before the term was popular—but it is one. Zulu is one of the oldest organizations to march. Their parade takes place at 8 a.m. on Fat Tuesday, so the highly motivated [...]
Continue Reading →
The parades are central to Mardi Gras. It’s where you get the beads, hang out with your friends and, for some (most), carry your booze around with you in the street. Each parade is organized by a krewe (pronounced “crew”), whose members pay for everything they throw to crowds from the floats, from beads to high heeled shoes. Member dues, which can be thousands of dollars a year, pay for float construction and costs associated with the ball typically held [...]
Continue Reading →
You may have noticed New Orleans marches to the beat of its own drummer. During Mardi Gras, that multiplies tenfold. Rule 1: Given the choice between cold hard cash and a necklace of plastic beads, there is no chance you will go home richer. Beads become the currency of the town this week of the year (and probably more). Even the military marching bands pride themselves in their bead collections! The best time we had was handing out every necklace [...]
Continue Reading →
There are worse things than getting caught in a group of tourists in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. They’re usually nice people and Mardi Gras puts them in a good mood (read: they’re happy drunks). As fun as the French Quarter can be, if you want to get a real taste of Mardi Gras, camp out on the local side of the parade routes. We spent most of our time in Uptown, where the parades run straight through neighborhoods (and [...]
Continue Reading →
Typical architecture in the French Quarter in New Orleans. During Mardi Gras, residents hang out on the porches to throw and catch beads from above. -Tara for TKGO
Continue Reading →
After five days in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, I have discovered: 10. I like my grits with cream and butter. 9. People will happily spend hours begging shamelessly for beer coozies, boas, plastic cups, bags of chips, furry harpoons, and plastic beads. 8. If Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa weren’t already BFFs, they are now. 7. Larger-than-life papier mache Michael Jacksons and Edgar Allen Poes really don’t become any less extraordinary the more you see them. 6. A liberal [...]
Continue Reading →
Between the Saints taking the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras madness, it’s been quite the past couple weeks for the city of New Orleans. I love New Orleans. It’s a charming and vivacious city with loads of personality. They’re big on music (it’s the birthplace of jazz), they’re big on food (beignets and jambalaya are my personal favorites), and they’re big on celebrating (case in point: Mardi Gras). The circumstance in which I first experienced The Big Easy, though, was [...]
Continue Reading →
Twitter
Tumblr
Facebook
YouTube