Mardi Gras Parade Brings Out New Orleans Revellers
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Gaily costumed revelers shouting for beads lined the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday for the city's annual spectacle of colorful debauchery as Carnival season came to an end with the massive Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, celebration.
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Wind and rain could not keep thousands of spectators from crowding Manhattan streets to see Big Bird, Snoopy and other signature balloons and floats of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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President Bush said Tuesday he wanted to celebrate the spirit of New Orleans. He chose to do so with Leah Chase, considered this proud, still-struggling city's Queen of Creole, known as much for her famous cooking as her warm personality.
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Religious groups led the city's gay pride parade on Sunday, lending gravity to an often outrageous event that also featured a jumble of drag queens in feather boas, marching bands, motorcycle-riding lesbians, rugby players and samba dancers.
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana  - Gaily costumed revelers  shouting for beads lined the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday  for the city's annual spectacle of colorful debauchery as  Carnival season came to an end with the massive Mardi Gras, or  Fat Tuesday, celebration.
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Thousands of Red Sox fans began descending on Boston on Saturday for a parade many began to doubt they&#39;d ever witness in their lifetimes: a toast to a team of World Series champions.
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There are a few more souvenir stands, quite a few more merchandise stands and a little different feeling among the fans at the Metrodome.
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British actor Rupert Everett and 250 men dressed as pop singer Kylie Minogue were among 8,000 revelers who marched through Sydney late Saturday for the 29th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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As revelers dress up in glittery costumes for a week of singing, drinking and dancing in Rio de Janeiro, many people will be celebrating Carnival under the barrel of a gun.
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The Louisiana Superdome reopened to a full house in New Orleans Monday night, with fans cheering the opening of the front gates as if the Saints had already won.
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Millions of paradegoers packed the heart of Manhattan yesterday under unexpectedly dry skies to watch a supersized sponge soak up the sun at the eye-popping Macy&#39;s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, one of the biggest of its kind in the world, is going green this year with a message to Australians that they must take action to protect a threatened environment.
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A crowd of more than 68,000 is expected for Monday nightÂs game at the Superdome, along with conflicting emotions about the reopening of the stadium.
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 20 -- The Mardi Gras celebration that took place "under the bridge" today wasn't broadcast live on TV. It didn't appear on tourist brochures. Indeed, it hardly seemed to exist, to judge by the absence of attention.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Crowds were sparse and Mardi Gras costumes even sparser on Tuesday, with only a few people coming out before dawn to save spaces from which to watch what amounts to a day-long parade of parades - 11 of them, one after the other.
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By James Jones, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--Several South Mississippi boys' basketball teams will be spending Mardi Gras night playing hoops.   Biloxi, Pass Christian, St.
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Musicians marched a silent &quot;second  line&quot; through the French Quarter on Sunday to protest the state  of New Orleans&#39; famed music scene nearly two years after  Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.