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New Orleans Hosts Final Mardi Gras Parades as Carnival Ends
Mardi Gras marks the end of Carnival with parades like Rex and Zulu featuring traditional costumes and throws, as thousands celebrate before Lent begins.
- On Fat Tuesday, New Orleans is hosting the final Mardi Gras parades, marking the climax and end of the weekslong Carnival season.
- Beyond New Orleans, Carnival includes the Courir de Mardi Gras in Central Louisiana with costumed participants and communal gumbo, and parades occur in Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida.
- Among the final parades, the Zulu Social Aide & Pleasure Club features African-inspired garb and throws like beads, candy, doubloons, stuffed animals, and hand-decorated coconuts, while Rex rolls along St. Charles Avenue past oak trees draped in beads.
- People head back to work Tuesday even as beads fly, crawfish boil and parades roll through New Orleans during Mardi Gras' final festivities.
- The festival's customs blend elaborate masking, homemade outfits and rural rites, featuring beaded Black masking Indians and hand‑decorated coconuts as coveted throws alongside the Courir de Mardi Gras.
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New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras, the indulgent conclusion of Carnival season
As the sun rose in New Orleans, rows of parade-goers already lined the street. People set up chairs, coolers, grills and ladders — offering a higher vantage point to catch the eye of float riders throwing glimmering plastic beads to revelers.
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