New Orleans and Mardi Gras go hand in ... was one of the first people to mobilize the effort to decorate houses in lieu of regular Mardi Gras parade floats. When it was decided on November 17 ...

communications director for the City of New Orleans announced parade cancellations late last year, he was quick to point out Mardi Gras would carry on just in a different way. With the House ...

With the Louisiana city’s Mardi Gras parades canceled ... notes Victoria Stapley-Brown for Atlas Obscura. A New Orleans "house float" decorated for Mardi Gras Allen Boudreaux / Krewe of House ...

When New Orleans’ mayor announced ... adorn the homes where so many have been in retreat from the coronavirus since just after last Mardi Gras. That’s when 1.5 million people – including ...

especially when Mardi Gras is coming. All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus outbreak canceled the elaborate parades mobbed by crowds ...

The pandemic can’t stop the party in New Orleans, where residents have transformed their homes into stationary Mardi Gras floats to ... so there are no parades this year. Instead, in the ...

But don’t despair, after a New Orleans spokesperson gave the announcement on Nov. 17 that Mardi Gras parades in 2021 were not being held due to the coronavirus pandemic, a “house float ...

The house floats movement was born on Nov. 17, 2020, the same day the city announced there would be no parades during ... are in the greater New Orleans area, Mardi Gras enthusiasts have created ...

The group — which usually puts on a parade on the North Shore, located across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans — has come up with a creative way to celebrate Mardi Gras amid the 2021 parade ...

especially when Mardi Gras is coming. All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus outbreak canceled the elaborate parades mobbed by crowds ...