As Mardi Gras inches closer, dozens of parades are rolling ahead of the big day. “We got the biggest party and the best party right here,” said Ann van Lamsweerde. It was an Uptown doubleheader as the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The 2025 Carnival season kicked off on January 6, and the Krewe of Iris is set to roll on Saturday, March 1, at 11 a.m. The parade starts at the intersection of Napoleon Avenue and S.

Iris is the oldest and largest all-female Carnival organization in New Orleans. Her grandmother started gathering friends into what would, in 1922, become the Krewe of Iris with the advent of the ...

Meanwhile, throws like lab-created biodegradable beads and the flowers that the Krewe of Iris use now cost over twice as much. “Flowers end up in the landfill too, but they are biodegradable ...

With roughly 3,500 riders, the all-female Iris parade is New Orleans’ largest. Named for the goddess of the rainbow, the krewe proudly proclaims that in its six-decade history the Iris parade ...

The man accused of killing a Loranger woman and kidnapping her two daughters, ultimately killing one, will undergo another mental evaluation.