New Orleans
March 13, 2012
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Channing Tatum, who stars alongside Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street, reveals he has plans to open a bar in New Orleans’ famous French Quarter.
“I don’t think I’d ever open a bar anywhere else, really,” Channing told the New Orleans Times—Picayune. “Because I don’t want to try to get people there. But people come to New Orleans with a little bit of money in their pocket and they have one thing they want to do with it.”
February 15, 2012
Drunken debauchery aside, Mardis Gras is actually a pretty interesting holiday. New Orleans had its first Mardis Gras in 1837, and it’s known as “Carnival Season” to celebrate the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.
Basically, the holiday is for getting all your vices out of your system before giving something up for Lent. So this year, when you’re lifting up your shirt after downing a yard of some mysterious purple drink, remember at least one little Mardis Gras tradition: King Cake!
