Mardi Gras News
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Dressing for a Parade
January 19 2008
There is a business side to the celebration of Mardi Gras. Some local shops depend on Carnival to keep the doors open all year...or for a hundred years! Here's a century-old establishment that is still supplying the bright costumes of the season.
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Mardi Gras Begins On High Note
January 18 2008
Downtown Mobile sees its first parade of the Mardi Gras season
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Mobile’s First Mardi Gras Parade
January 18 2008
Conde Cavaliers will roll tonight. Click for times and route information.
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Clothier to Kings and Queens
January 17 2008
The spectacular outfits worn by Mardi Gras Royalty at their coronations are all hand-made by a very few local designers...designers who are, truly, highly skilled artists.
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Mardi Gras Mounted Patrol
January 17 2008
Mobile's Mounted Patrol has been so successul, law enforcement from around the State and the Country now come here to be trained. It turns out we have the perfect training ground...Mardi Gras.
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Mighty Marching Tigers
January 17 2008
A few years ago a Mobile man had an idea about kids and music...not the sort they download to iPods, but the kind they could actually play themselves. It turned out a lot of youngsters liked the idea...hear for yourself.
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Mardi Gras Museum
January 17 2008
Mobile's Mardi Gras goes back to the middle 1700s and it is still growing! There are now about 80 mystic societies, orders, and krewes, with some 30 parades. And that's just in Greater Mobile. Two years ago there was another major addition to the celebration...the Mobile Carnival Museum.
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Melted Bead Art
January 16 2008
We all know recycling is a good idea, but sometimes it takes creative thinking...which is how a Gulf Coast lady recycles Mardi Gras beads!
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Float Prep Fury
January 08 2008
With an earlier start to Mardi Gras season this year, many local groups are scrambling to make sure their floats are done on time.
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Mardi Gras Ship
January 07 2008
Missile cruiser to participate in Mobile Mardis Gras.
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Mammoth Parade=Mammoth Mess?
January 03 2008
A new, shorter route is approved for the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA) but not everyone is happy about it.
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Nearly a Century in Costume
October 09 2007
It's a busy time of year for costume makers. One of Mobile's oldest costume houses is gearing up for Halloween.
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