NEW ORLEANS — The 2024 Carnival season kicked off on January 6, and the Krewe of Rex is set to roll on Mardi Gras Day, February 13, at 10:30 a.m. They will roll on their traditional route.

NEW ORLEANS — The 2025 Carnival season kicked off on January 6, and Krewe of Rex is set to roll on Mardi Gras Day, Tuesday, March 4, at 9:30 a.m. With high winds expected, officials moved up the ...

The Krewe of Rex parade route has changed due to incoming severe weather and high winds, the New Orleans Police Department announced early Tuesday. Rex will roll at 9:30 from its traditional start ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Additional changes have been made to the route traveled by the Krewe of Rex. On Fat Tuesday, March 4, the New Orleans Police Department announced the updated route stating ...

After the double grand march at the conclusion of the Carnival season of almost two months, the monarchs of the Rex Organization and of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, founded respectively 1872 and ...

In 1872, Rex was founded in a city still recovering from the Civil War. The goal of the Krewe of Rex organization was to entice tourism and business in New Orleans. It succeeded and has held more ...

When Howell Crosby was a teenager in the 1970s, he spent three Fat Tuesdays crammed inside the Rex organization’s Boeuf Gras float, pulling the string that made the knife-wielding butcher figure ...

traditional Mardi Gras masks and old-school krewes like the Krewe of Rex and Krewe of Zulu, New Orleans Mardi Gras has become increasingly diverse over the past few years. Pass go, collect king ...

The palindromic number 303 is the combined ages of Comus and Rex, which were started respectively in 1857 and 1872. All the while, they have both tended to the cultivation of Carnival and its ...

Vulcanus Rex has once again defeated King Boreas for control of the seasons, according to the St. Paul Winter Carnival legend, and the identities of the fire king and his Krewe have been revealed.