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Spray paint: check
Netting around front lawns: ubiquitous
Trash cans blocking off parking: everywhere
Stakes, tape and string: oh, mais oui
Port-o-lets: take your pick
Tents 'n' chairs 'n' stuff: boy howdy
People: hordes
Guy with a rattail buying smokes at Walgreens: we've got that covered
Furniture: some
Sketchy carny-style food trucks selling funnel cakes: not yet

We'll start on Canal Street, just off Carrollton:

More under the jump!

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Mardi Gras / Parades / Oh No You Didn't

Mardi Gras report: Endymion -2 days

Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:42 PM

Orleans Avenue neutral ground report, Thursday (yesterday's report is here).

Many of the "good spaces" have already been claimed, Endymiongoers:

Spray paint: check
Netting around front lawns: check
Trash cans blocking off parking: check
Stakes, tape and string: check
Port-o-lets: check
People: a few

Furniture: not yet

Let's go to the photos:

"Maomi & Friends" (?) have a sweet corner view.

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Mardi Gras / Parades / Oh No You Didn't

Mardi Gras report: Endymion -3 days

Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:02 PM

Orleans Avenue neutral ground report, Wednesday:

Spray paint: check
Netting around front lawns: check
Trash cans blocking off parking: check

Stakes, tape and string: not yet
Furniture: not yet
People: not yet

The KREWE OF CHAD is ready. (#KreweofChad is already a Twitter hashtag.)

More under the jump ...

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Music & Nightlife / Events & Festivals / Parades / Second Lines & Brass Bands

Second lines Saturday, Sunday; MLK Parade on Monday

Posted by Red Cotton on Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:48 PM

Perfect Gentlemen second line is rescheduled for Saturday 12-4pm. Undefeated Divas roll Sunday 12-4pm. And the City’s Martin Luther King Parade is happening Monday beginning at 9:45am. And I’m not even getting into Krewe de Vieux’s business happening Saturday evening.

We bout to be some parading mofos!

Route info for all three parades below the jump!

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Food & Drink / Music & Nightlife / Sports / Events & Festivals / A&E / Parades / Super Bowl XLVII

"Super Bowl Boulevard" music and food festival lineup announced

Posted by Alex Woodward on Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:10 PM

KIRK EDWARDS
Trombone Shorty

Quint Davis today announced the lineup for Verizon Super Bowl Boulevard, a free four-day festival along the Mississippi River between Jackson Square and the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. The event features 49 bands on four stages, 12 parades and 17 restaurants serving 54 dishes. It kicks off Jan. 31 and ends Feb. 3.

Performers include Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Tab Benoit, Rebirth Brass Band, Amanda Shaw, Charmaine Neville, Bonerama, Papa Grows Funk, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, The Soul Rebels, Pine Leaf Boys, The Iguanas and dozens others plus, parades and second lines from social aid and pleasure clubs and Mardi Gras Indians. Visit the website for the full schedule.

The Super Bowl numerals (XLVII) will float on a 100-foot-long barge on the river, and the NFL Network, Chevron, and XBox will have interactive tents. The park will open 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

"The mission (the Super Bowl Host Committee) gave us was to present the culture of New Orleans to the world," Davis said. "If you come here and don't have fun, you got off the wrong plane." Tomorrow, Davis will announce the lineup for the 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.