***TIME CHANGES & Updated Parade Information*** NOMTOC will forsake its West Bank route to kick off Sunday's parades at 9 a.m., Berni said. Following will be the all-women's Krewe of Iris, followed by Okeanos, Mid-City and Thoth in Sunday's mid-day line-up. The Krewe of Bacchus is not expected to alter its 5:15 p.m. start on Sunday evening. Meanwhile, the irreverent Krewe of Tucks, which is scheduled to roll Uptown at noon on Saturday, will instead open Monday's revelry by preceding the Krewe of Proteus along the Uptown course starting at 3 p.m. Harry Connick Jr.'s superkrewe of Orpheus headlines Monday night's events with a 6 p.m. roll. City officials confirm that the Krewe of Endymion will roll at 5:30 -- weather permitting. The Canal Street Loop has also been eliminated. They also ask those going to the parade not to go out to the route until an hour before the parade starts. In Metairie, the Krewe of Isis has moved back its start time to 7:30 p.m
About the Book Never before has the history of the Mardi Gras celebration been looked at this way. Errol Laborde focuses on the first 60 years of the organized celebration in New Orleans, a period that bridges the premiere parade of the Mistick Krewe of Comus and the founding of the Zulu organization. Along the way he discovers fascinating characters; including a poetic journalist who survived a bloody attack, an archduke looking for fun and a would-be king finding religion. Laborde also links an African War with Custer¹s Last Stand and disproves some of the conventional wisdom about Carnival¹s early history. This is the most important contemporary book on early Carnival history. And it fun to read too.
about Errol Laborde Errol Laborde is the Editor-in-Chief of Renaissance Publishing Company. In that capacity he serves as Editor/Associate Publisher of New Orleans Magazine and Editor/ Publisher of Louisiana Life Magazine.He also oversees several other company publications, including St. Charles Avenue and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles.
Laborde is producer and a regular panelist on Informed Sources, a weekly news discussion program broadcast on public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12.
Laborde's
most recent books are Krewe: The Early Carnival from Comus to Zulu and Marched the Day God. a history of the Rex organization. He also wrote the text for a pictorial book, Mardi Gras- A Celebration and has published two compilations of his Streetcar local color columns, The Buzzard Wore A Tutu and I Never Danced With An Eggplant. BUY THE BOOK
