Local parading heritage finds its own stomping grounds at Treme museum
New Orleans Times-Picayune
He has binders full of obituaries of jazz musicians and New Orleans luminaries, videotapes of parades, programs from funerals, Mardi Gras Indian costumes, costumes from second-line organizations and a huge collection of the memorial T-shirt...
Foie gras fantasia
Bangkok Post
Rougie is the world's largest producer of foie gras and duck and goose products, and the dinners are organised by luxury food importers, Gourmet One. This year it was at The Reflexions, the French-inspired fine dining restaurant of Plaza At...
Disneyland show opening today to feature new princess
Desert Sun
Billed as a rousing, colorful procession with a jazz-filled Mardi Gras theme, "Tiana's Showboat Jubilee!" begins with festively dressed, bead-tossing revelers leading Disneyland visitors from New Orleans Square to the Mark Twain Riverboat d...
'Mardi Gras' feel to Hallowe'en celebrations
Cambridge News
HALLOWE’EN japes triggered a spike in 999 calls to police – but top Cambridgeshire officers say it was largely good-natured. Insp Terry Furlong told the News Cambridge had been "absolutely heaving" with a "Mardi Gras" feel all the way up to...
Georgia-Pacific to Distribute Third Quarter 2009 Financial Information ...
PR Newswire
The familiar consumer tissue brands of Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP include Quilted Northern(R), Angel Soft(R), Brawny(R), Sparkle(R), Soft 'n Gentle(R), Mardi Gras(R), So-Dri(R) and Vanity Fair(R). Dixie Consumer Products LLC, a Ge...
Series names Gulitti Sportman Driver of Year
Motorsport.com
... this season with two national event victories, a win in the Summit All-Stars race and a second place finish in the Renegades Division on the Summit Pro-Am Tour. And all of that has led to Gulitti being named the 2009 ... opening Mardi G...
directNIC, Ltd. Announces a FREE Trip to Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 ...
Melodika.net
directNIC, Ltd., a leading full-service ICANN accredited registrar, today announced the "directNIC, Ltd. Win a Trip to Domainer Mardi Gras 2010" promotion. The promotion will reward one directNIC, Ltd., client with a trip to New Orleans, Lo...
Schwarzenegger: California cows can keep tails
High Plains Journal
As a 2005 bill lingered to ban foie gras, he chastised legislators in a radio interview for spending time talking about "feeding geese'' instead of issues he believed were more pressing.
100 days ‘til Mardi Gras
LoHud.com
No one celebrates Mardi Gras better than The Bayou and with 100 days to go, Mardi Gras comes to Mount Vernon with all the trimmings - beads, hurricanes, king cakes - and music by Spuyten Duyvil who will set the tone with some awesome altern...
National World War II Museum rallies the troops, plus Tom Hanks, for ...
Los Angeles Times
The museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and — because this is the Big Easy, after all — Mardi Gras Day. Here’s the 411: Entry fees: Adults pay $16 for museum admission pl...
Au Pied de Cochon
New York Times
Picard put his restaurant on the gastronomic map when he put foie gras on poutine back in 2004, just after the restaurant opened. Many dishes at P.D.C. are conceived with that same wicked sense of humor — who puts foie gras on French fries?...
Restaurant review: Apsleys, London SW1
The Guardian
And if you are going to serve foie gras, you really must mention it on the menu when so many people won't touch the stuff. Then again, catering to a captive audience of arms dealers and rich Americans, with the odd restaurant collector chuc...
Official claims of declining caribou a deliberate hoax, says outfitter
Canada East
This is a deliberate hoax, not good science," writes John Andre, owner of Montana-based Shoshone Wilderness Adventures, which operates commercial hunts in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories, northeast of Yellowknife. Andre ha...
