New Orleans roars back with Carnival celebrations after truck attack
LA TimesThe annual Joan of Arc Parade kicks off the Carnival season in New Orleans. Women dressed as angels, hands clasped in prayer, passed through New Orleans to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season, just blocks from where 14 people were killed five days earlier by a rampaging driver. Hundreds filled the streets Monday evening for the annual Joan of Arc Parade through New Orleans’ historic French Quarter. “But I feel like the first parade of the year could help lift spirits.” New Orleans has the largest and best-known Carnival celebrations in the U.S., with street parties, fancy balls and parades from simple neighborhood-based walking clubs to elaborate high-tech extravaganzas with massive floats laden with flashing lights and giant animated figures.
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