The Mardi Gras season is vastly different this ... It may help guide our readers to some of the best examples of float houses. It m… Get tiny with shoebox floats Go into your closets and look ...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - The Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Convention & Visitors Bureau recently held a community-wide Mardi Gras Shoebox Float Contest ... The students’ ideas were extremely ...

But just because your house isn't a "float" doesn't mean you can't get into the spirit on or before Mardi Gras Day, Feb. 16. Here are some ideas that will help spice up that Fat Tuesday ...

(NEXSTAR) — For anyone who has ever wondered how the giant floats featured in Mardi Gras parades are created, Mardi Gras ...

But even though they’re infusing the parades with new ideas, in some ways the alternative krewes are drawing on very old Mardi Gras traditions that predate the era of cars and motorized floats.

Cuz’s Old Town Oyster Bar & Grill is inviting kids to use their imagination to create their own Mardi Gras float in a shoebox. The Second Saturday Cuz’s Kids Art Challenge kicks off at 11 a.m ...

They’re able to bring new and creative ideas with tandem floats,” said Elroy James, co-chair of the Mayor’s Mardi Gras Advisory Council. Each krewe will be responsible for their own tandem ...

HAPPY MARDI GRAS. SHERMAN: FOUR-YEAR-OLD JACK AND HIS 1-YEAR-OLD BROTHER JACOB ENTERED THE CONTEST. KREWES PARADES ARE A BIG FAMILY TRADITION FOR THEM. THE SHOE BOX FLOATS GAVE THEM A REASON TO ...

“Mardi Gras is very traditional. There’s something very antiseptic about computer-generated designs.” Ponce’s work begins with the parade theme and ideas for floats which depict it.

The reading is at 11 a.m. FEB. 15: Brenda Robert will read about Mardi Gras shoebox floats with “King of the Shoebox Parade” at 11 a.m. There's a mouse in a shoebox in Grammy's closet.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Visit Lake Charles is inviting the community to participate in the 13th Annual Mardi Gras Shoebox Float Contest. With the VLC Welcome Center currently under construction, ...