More Than Beads, Booze and Boobs

There is admittedly a Girls Gone Wild element to Mardi Gras. You know, the intoxicated young women raising their shirts for beads and engaging in salacious sexual activity on the streets. That may be so for many tourists, but for natives like my family, Mardi Gras is a family-bonding time: cooking out and dancing to the bands marching by, all the while screaming for the beads and other trinkets thrown from the vibrantly decorated floats. I have never once ... Full Story »

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Glenn LaBauve
3.8
by Glenn LaBauve - Feb. 26, 2009

A look behind the media perception of a wild and crazy party to the history and meaning of the celebration.

One reason I joined Newstrust was for the exposure to new and different news sources. This is one I may come back too from time to time.

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