Boisterous crowds like at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, or crowded public transportation like San Francisco buses have also raised pickpocketing alarms.
The opening sequence, showing Mardi Gras revels in New Orleans through the frenzied chiaroscuro of streamers and wrought iron, evokes psyches already ratcheted to fever pitch.
There goes a marching band, following Mardi Gras floats down Canal Street last night in New Orleans.
Four people were hurt in a February Mardi Gras attack, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.
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Tourism officials said attendance at Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2007 was near pre-storm levels.
Today McDonogh 15 is more accustomed to happy hallways bursting with the colors of Mardi Gras and the strains of adolescents playing New Orleans jazz in the school band.
Kelly, 60, a Saints season ticket holder and president of the Mardi Gras Krewe Endymion, has never seen anything like the Saints euphoria in New Orleans.
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Hirsch, whose Sweet Home New Orleans focuses on helping musicians and members of New Orleans' famous Mardi Gras krewes, said there's value in celebrity support, not just in their ability to raise or donate funds, but to spread the word and keep the story of New Orleans alive.
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New Orleans "Indians" are black people who march in the Mardi Gras parade, wearing 100lb (45kg) dresses that they sew themselves throughout the year.
New Orleans is home to Bourbon Street and Mardi Gras, but it only ranked in 24th place.
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