Happy Mardi Gras DU from New Orleans (pics)

ZULU

The Mayor



The music



The African tribal dancers



The Mardi Gras indians:



The FUTURE

So true! Those photos are fantastic ... great energy and beauty.

I wish we could rec this up so that it'd be on the Greatest Page. It's that awesome. Your photo of the Indian in blue is just wonderful--all of them are.

:thumbsup:

Thanks for posting these.

:toast:

that I've been streaming all day. They've been playing lots of Indian music all day and at one point were broadcasting from the Backstreet Cultural Museum in Treme.

http://www.wwoz.org/listen.php

Homeward bound in a half hour or so (HI time) to drink it up and polish off a container of Zat's dirty rice from last night. I still can't shake the feeling I wussed out on the real thing, though...

Oh yes, gave you a shoutout on a NOLA rebuilding board when another poster erroneously tagged a Mid-City neighborhood project "broadmoor is rebuilding".

http://disc.server.com/Indices/231355.html

How humiliating for my fifteen-year-exiled self to have to give a geography lesson to a local! Past time to get back in, I guess...

edit: spelling

we're on the same page

:hi:

and this hits the greatest page!

Anyone?

I love these photos. :)

Went to a mardi gras party in portland this weekend, not the same.

:toast: :bounce: :hi:

I would love to have been there for this one!

mardi gras costumes are usually satirical

I'm not sure exactly what he meant by this...

what do you think?

:shrug:

that he was dressed in uniform to honor all the service people who helped after Katrina.

Thanks for sharing!!!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO!
Bon ton roulet!!

Thanks for sharing them.

I celebrate Mardi Gras with some cajun food (to connect with NO) and a couple of beers. This year, jumbalya