News Radio 710 KEEL » My First Mardi Gras http://710keel.com Depend On It! Mon, 20 May 2013 03:48:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 My First Mardi Gras: The Floats http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-4/ http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-4/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:13:56 +0000 Dennis Foley http://710keel.com/?p=140708 One distinctive feature of any big Mardi Gras parade is the floats.  Not only do these house the beads and the bead throwers, but these are pieces of art crafted by the groups they represent to display what they are all about

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]]> http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-4/feed/ 0 Townsquare Media Shreveport My First Mardi Gras: The Crowds http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-3/ http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-3/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:53:06 +0000 Dennis Foley http://710keel.com/?p=140041 My first Mardi Gras.  I'm Dennis Foley.  So there was so much to anticipate before the Krewe of Centaur parade.  I mean, just driving around days before the festivities, barricades were getting lined up along Shreveport-Barksdale Highway, porta-potties along East Kings Highway, and eventually the RVs

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]]> http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-3/feed/ 0 Townsquare Media My First Mardi Gras: Marching Bands http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-2/ http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-2/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:31:05 +0000 Dennis Foley http://710keel.com/?p=139764 This is my first Mardi Gras.  Yes, I am a former New Yorker and New Hampshirite, both states with their own great traditions and celebrations.  But no matter where you are, you can't have a parade without marching bands

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]]> http://710keel.com/my-first-mardi-gras-part-2/feed/ 0 Chris Graythen/Getty True Life: My First Mardi Gras, Part 1 http://710keel.com/true-life-my-first-mardi-gras-part-1/ http://710keel.com/true-life-my-first-mardi-gras-part-1/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:18:21 +0000 Dennis Foley http://710keel.com/?p=139268 This past Saturday, I got my first taste of Mardi Gras at the Krewe of Centaur parade.  I got to enjoy the parade aboard the Townsquare Media float with my colleagues from across the cluster.  Some parts of the celebration I anticipated, others, not so much

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