Carnival has never been bigger. After last year’s Mardi Gras, James Reiss III, a former Rex and co-chairman of the Mayor's ...

The Superb Owl, the icon for Chewbacchus’ theme for its 2025 parade, rolls down St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans on Saturday, February 1, 2025. Emmy-nominated actor Mark Proksch — known for ...

For these reasons, I thought I knew Carnival quite well, but my perspective changed recently when I went to a relatively new parade for the first time: the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus.

By the 1850s, a group of men in New Orleans established a secret society to help celebrate the holiday. The city’s first ...

Here's Drew Hawkins from the Gulf States Newsroom. DREW HAWKINS, BYLINE: Greetings from the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus. It's a sci-fi and fantasy themed Mardi Gras parade with dozens of ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Bourbon Street terror attack on New Year’s Day meant more security for parades for this Carnival season. Krewes outside the city’s official ...