Following up her plea to police on behalf of blockaded Uptown paradegoers, City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell will be holding a roundtable discussion on Saturday, March 30. The issue at hand is the intrusion of ladders and tents, as well as the general partitioning of neutral grounds, which impedes the rights of all citizens to watch the floats go by from an advantageous angle.

by Sarah Esenwein

After five tortuous days at sea on a lame duck cruise boat, the options they faced were to be bussed straight into Houston/Galveston, TX or for a short layover in New Orleans, where Carnival Cruise lines made arrangements of rooms and food for their stay.

by Ryan Sparks/Photos by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

For residents of the riverside neighborhoods in Uptown, the noise of the port is a part of life. Not much can overpower the squealing wheels of the freight trains or the broad tones of a ship’s horns. Except the sounds of a parade, of course. On the Carnival nights when the superkrewes of Bacchus and Orpheus roll, the stretch of Tchoupitoulas between Napoleon Avenue and Bordeaux turns into a full-on battleground for the marching bands getting ready to march down St. Charles Ave.  

Before clearing the streets for Ash Wednesday, NOPD made progress on solving a heinous Carnival crime. On Monday, police arrested Deron Bridgewater in the Saturday night shooting on Bourbon St. that sent four people to the hospital. A second suspect, Brandon Brown, was arrested on Fat Tuesday.

On Mardi Gras Day, the proliferation of diversions can be overwhelming. You can walk half-fast with Pete Fountain, scout for strutting Indians, promenade with the Saint Anne society, catch the motley Buzzards, or scare the neighborhood awake with the Skull and Bone Gang. It’s enough to make a body wish for some sort of Quantum Carnival Consciousness Multiplier—to better take everything in simultaneously. While we wait for such a breakthrough from Louisiana’s brightest scientific minds, however, the next best thing may be decidedly low-tech: the humble bicycle.

After releasing video of Saturday night's quadruple Carnival shooting on Bourbon St., police are looking for an unidentified man that may have important information about the case. NOPD released a picture of the Person of Interest (pictured) on Sunday.

With rain in the forecast, Carnival krewes have traded the rain dance for the schedule shuffle. NOPD announced that parades on Sunday and Monday are set to move up their parading times, with no changes planned for Fat Tuesday festivities.

Like parade-goers, the skies over New Orleans were a little hazy on Saturday morning. But this year's Endymion ride looks set to go off without an umbrella or poncho, and the same goes for today's Uptown parades. Temperatures are expected to hover in the mid-60s, with a chance of rain at a slim 10 percent. Click for more.

The Krewe of Tucks knows the importance of brushing.

by Sarah Esenwein

Club Whatever, this ain't. Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman wants all to know that there is a special place for all those who commit the Carnival sins of public urination, belligerent public drunkenness, destruction of property, skipping a tab, and other Mardi Gras misdemeanors: the booking bus.