Mardi Gras
NOP96022003-20FEB96-NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA: Thousands of Mardi Gras revelers pack Bourbon St. in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Feb. 20, as celebrations of Mardi Gras day take place. UPI aj/a.j.sisco
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NEW ORLEANS, Calif., March 8 (UPI) -- More than 3 million people are expected to flock to New Orleans this week for the city's famously extravagant Mardi Gras festivities, officials said.
SYDNEY, March 1 (UPI) -- A photographer said about 5,000 people stripped nude on the steps of Australia's Sydney Opera House for a photo shoot.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Two parades through New Orleans are to mark the beginning of the last seven days of the city's Mardi Gras festival.
HOUMA, La., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Officials in Terrebonne Parish, La., said a parish deputy died of injuries suffered in a collision that occurred as he was escorting a Mardi Gras float Sunday.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Four women say in a lawsuit that San Jose, Calif., police used excessive force against them in 2006 after mistaking them for Mardi Gras revelers.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Tourism officials in New Orleans say the city is attracting visitors this year despite the recession and is bouncing back from 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The Mardi Gras-ending Fat Tuesday festivities in New Orleans turned bloody with gun play wounding six people, including an infant, authorities said.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The majority of the more than 300 people arrested in New Orleans during recent Mardi Gras celebrations were guilty of public drunkenness, police say.
MANDEVILLE, La., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A Louisiana coin dealer wants to give away 1 million pennies during the 12 days between Lincoln's Birthday and the beginning of Mardi Gras.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The national recession does not appear to be a mood-killer for those attending Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, a Carnival season organizer says.
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