New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festivities are steeped in tradition and historicity, and for the thousands of visitors that line Saint Charles Avenue, beads are intrinsic to the Carnival experience. But...
Dare I say, HBO’s coincidental timing for its season two drop of the popular show, just a month before parades begin rolling again, is going to be the most-pinned aesthetic on everybody’s Mardi Gras...
With Carnival season finally upon New Orleans, the waning but still-present threat of COVID-19 has Tulane University preparing for this year’s Mardi Gras with optimism and caution.
After...
Billie Wyler, Contributing Columnist
• February 16, 2022
Students at Tulane University are already beginning to prepare for what many likely consider the most exciting days of the year: Mardi Gras.
To celebrate this anticipated holiday, students at...
Tulane University’s current seven-day average percentage of positive tests is 6.1%, which is slightly lower than New Orleans’ positivity rate of 7.2%.
Since testing resumed at the start of the...
New Orleans’ Carnival season is a time of unparalleled decadence and merriment. Mardi Gras is the fullest expression of the Big Easy’s let-the-good-times-roll mantra. However, what makes the season...
Andrew Spencer, Contributing Reporter
• February 2, 2022
After the cancellation of many Mardi Gras parades last year due to COVID-19, the citywide celebration is set to return to New Orleans, but not without some notable changes.
City officials announced...
COVID-19 spread undetected through Mardi Gras crowds two years ago, turning New Orleans into an epicenter in the early days of the pandemic.
Last week, the New Orleans City Council officially declared...
Faith McLean, Contributing Reporter
• November 3, 2021
Soon parade-goers will be fighting over decorated chef hats, to celebrate the Krewe of The Culinary Queen of New Orleans’ historic Mardi Gras debut for the upcoming 2022 Mardi Gras season, in the famously...
Charlotte Zera, Contributing Columnist
• October 27, 2021
“Ole Miss formal is a Tulane Tuesday.” Once again boasting their status as a top party school, this jab was found on a banner hanging from a Tulane University student’s home the day Tulane’s...
Citizens across the nation have had to learn to adapt to a new way of life imposed by COVID-19. Despite unique living conditions imposed by COVID-19 policies and restrictions, many Americans have found...
The summit of New Orleans’ social calendar is an annual celebration replete with lavish galas, masquerade balls, bead-throwing, intricate costumes, rampant alcohol consumption and the occasional...
