Women with embellished coconuts ... One of the earliest surviving examples of ‘throwing’ in new Orleans are Japanese mercury ...

decked out in gear from his New Orleans Saints. Dozens of law enforcement officers lined the route from the French Quarter to the Central Business District, and revelers threw beads at Homeland ...

New Orleans has ... printed with 1920s women’s-rights slogans and, alternatively, 1980s Playboy photographs — they make for much better souvenirs than Mardi Gras beads. Turkey and the Wolf ...

Webber, a New Orleans native, said Mardi Gras isn’t just ... an assistant professor of history and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Southern University and A&M College.

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If you go to a parade in New Orleans, there's going to be debauchery, there's going to be fun, there's going to be drinking and there's going to be beads. Lots of beads. And the Super Bowl parade ...