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This week on The Reading Life: novelist Ladee Hubbard, author of “The Rib King,” which tells the story of the patriarch of the family we met in her first…
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Susan Larson talks with Echo Olander, Yoni Goldstein and photographer, Patrick Niddrie, about their new book, “I Wanna Do That!: The Magic of Mardi Gras…
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During a Mardi Gras Advisory Council meeting on Nov. 5, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that Mardi Gras 2021, while “not canceled,” would be “different” from…
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“Not canceled, just different.”That was the title of the PowerPoint presentation that Mayor LaToya Cantrell shared during the Mardi Gras Advisory Council…
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Blaine Kern Sr., known as “Mr. Mardi Gras,” has died at the age of 93.Kern was the second of three generations of Kerns to run Kern Studios, which builds…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday released a report packed with data on the spread of COVID-19.First, here's what you came for:The…
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Whenever you think of Mardi Gras, you probably think parades, floats and beads being thrown in the air, but there is another side of Mardi Gras that’s not…
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Cherice Harrison-Nelson grew up in a high-minded family of readers. Her mother Herreast ran nursery schools. Her father Donald Harrison was a veteran and…
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It’s Mardi Gras season and the streets are filling up with parade-goers — and disposable plastic.Every year, millions of pounds of plastic throws flood…
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It’s Carnival time in New Orleans, and that means that throw season has arrived. Throw as in the noun, a throw, not the verb, to throw. We’re talking…