May 26th, Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club held its election day. A day filled with food, friends and festivities (like any other day in NOLA) members of the club (Zulu isn’t a krewe) voted for the king and characters for Mardi Gras 2014.
Congratulations to King Elect Garren Mims
BigShot Elect–Kreig Perkins
WitchDoctor Elect–Derek Rabb
AmbassadorElect-Joseph Aldor
MayorElect–Lawrence Westley
ProvincePrince–Melvin Labat
GovernorElect–Eric LaRose
BigStuffElect–Kevin McKnight
May you all have a wonderful reign!
Feb 12
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Here are some pictures from early this morning – what better way to start the day than with some Irish coffee from Johnny White’s The Quarter was all decked out in purple green and gold finery Despite the fact that the Quarters were shrouded in fog and mist… …revelers were fueling up and getting their […]
Feb 8
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From the Urban Dictionary: A Goat Rodeo… is about the most polite term used by aviation people (and others in higher risk situations) to describe a scenario that requires about 100 things to go right at once if you intend to walk away from it.” – Chris Thile Thanks to this past Super Bowl, most of […]
Feb 7
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“Mardi Gras morning when the sun comes up, I drink fire water from a silver cup” Last night began six days of non-stop parading leading up to Fat Tuesday, the happiest and most fun-filled day in the New Orleans calendar. We at NOLAFemmes want to wish all of you a wonderful and safe Mardi Gras. […]
Jan 25
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Last year at this time, my daughter was crossing off the days until the Muses parade on her calendar — a handmade number made of pink construction paper with silver glitter borders, sprinkles of red, pink, and white glitter sparkles, the month and days written in her rough cursive handwriting, and the numbers big and […]
Jan 23
Have you read The Gumbo Pages? If you haven’t, you should. I shamelessly stole this from there because I was reading it this morning and it made me laugh. I want you to laugh too. Happy Carnival! Carnival Time You don’t learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday. John Silbernagel […]
Jan 14
The Mystic Krewe of Nyx’s Nyx Myx Masquerade Ball was held Saturday at the Riverside Hilton. How do you put such a wonderful event into words? Words would never capture how awesome the event was so, I’m gonna let some pictures tell most of the story. The ball was from 7:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. I know […]
Feb 25
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NOLAFemmes wants to extend a huge thanks to the Krewe of Muses and everyone who had a hand in making “EmilyGras” such a wonderful, unforgettable event for Em and Amy. Thanks to all of our commenters, Tweeters, FaceBookers, Reddits and to everyone who blogged about this on their personal blogs. We might not know about […]
Feb 17
We love our King Cake and we love collecting the babies. This collection belongs to Sun, the adorable daughter of NOLAFemmes’ own NOLAnotes. I have a theory that all the collected King Cake babies come out of their containers at night and dance.
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