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GENERATION GAP #7: Mario Tama’s New Orleans
Now that It is over—now that the circus has come and gone, its glaring lights, its grips and its roadies; now that the visiting dignitaries have made their dignified departures and the newspapers have...
View ArticleThrow Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #1
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011:This is how it begins: with a lot of standing around.Some of us are drunk. Some of us are getting there, some of us are...
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Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011:“Y’all ready?” I ask the cops, clustered near the corner of Napoleon and St Charles. “Been ready,” one shoots right back...
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Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011:“I thought I’d be happy with just one!” Kellie says, her slender frame weighed down under two full pounds of beads....
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Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011:If there’s one lesson we know well here in New Orleans, it’s that none of us are immune to the elements.It’s only a...
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Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011:Some nights only begin once you get hit in the face.I never saw it coming, though I’m not sure the rider in Bacchus could...
View ArticleThrow Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #6
The final dispatch from Benjamin Morris, who covered New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011 for The Rumpus:The problem of Mardi Gras—of the day itself, Fat Tuesday—is that you only have one body.Consider the map...
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With Words and With Pretty: Super Sunday 2011
With the exception of sporadic documentaries, books and a small but dedicated scholarly following, Mardi Gras Indians have remained comparatively unknown to much of the world outside New Orleans. While...
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