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The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus will celebrate Carrie Fisher’s life with a Princess Leia-themed, second line-style parade in New Orleans on Friday evening. Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the popular Star Wars film series, died yesterday at the age of 60. According to NOLA.com, participants will gather at Markey Park in the Bywater at 3pm. The approximately one-hour parade will begin at 4pm, andd will travel one block north down Mazant Street before turning right on Dauphine Street. It will then turn left on Poland Avenue and make its way to Castillo Blanco (Chewbacchus’ headquarters) on the corner of...

Two Treme musicians will plead innocent in municipal court today to disturbing the peace and parading without a permit, charges they say should never have been filed during their traditional send-off for a fellow musician. Derrick Tabb, 32, and his brother Glen David Andrews, 27, were pulled away in handcuffs from a Monday night parade for their friend, tuba player Kerwin James, who died last week and will be buried Saturday. New Orleans Police Department officers, who responded to a complaint about the parade with nearly 20 police cars, said they cited Tabb and Andrews because the two continued to...

Louisiana's death toll from Katrina now stands at 1,062. Nearly 350 victims have not been identified, and morgue officials are certain some may never be named. But Saturday, people celebrated the lives lost to the storm the only way they knew how. With trumpets and trombones instead of tears, people filled the French Quarter Streets for a jazz funeral to honor Katrina's victims. Crescent City Funeral Directors sponsored the event, which also included an All Saints Day Mass Saturday afternoon. "It's a beautiful thing," said Analisa Cisneros. "I'm so glad it's happening. It just gives me a feeling that even...

An exuberant crowd of Dan Rather detractors met this afternoon at Veterans Memorial Park in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of the Big Ezy, to celebrate Dan Rather’s retirement and to participate in a Jazz Funeral for Liberal Bias in the Media. The crowd was in a partying mood, as it “second-lined” to the music of a New Orleans jazz band. Two popular Republican state reps, Steve Scalise and John Labruzzo, wowed the crowd with their Rather comments. Although Rep. Scalise cautioned the crowd that this is just the “beginning” of the end of liberal bias in the media, the exuberance...

To celebrate Dan's departure, folks in the Big Ezy will be partying on Wednesday, March 9th from 5 to 6:15 PM at the Veterans' Memorial Park across from Lakeside Shopping center in Metairie, Louisiana. The Pelican Pachyderm Club and friends, including FReepers Patriot1 and Newslady, will be participating in a DAN RATHER "RETIREMENT" PARTY/JAZZ FUNERAL FOR LIBERAL BIAS IN THE MEDIA. We will be second-lining and celebrating to the accompaniment of a New Orleans brass band. To add to the atmosphere and to draw attention to this event, there will be fire truck and vintage police car.