In April, word spread of a proposed new Carnival parade that would roll on the night of Jan. 5, a day before the start of the traditional Mardi Gras season ... their own floats at the last ...

was once caught up in a scandal with a Mardi Gras group, the Order of Athena. Cecil Roebuck, the man behind Mystic Kings, was hired to build 9 floats for the Order of Athena in Mobile, Alabama, and ...