Boisterous crowds like at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, or crowded public transportation like San Francisco buses have also raised pickpocketing alarms.
Tourism officials said attendance at Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2007 was near pre-storm levels.
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.
Four people were hurt in a February Mardi Gras attack, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.
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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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Coming up in a still wounded American city a celebration of life, New Orleans and Mardi Gras.
But this Mardi Gras week, members of the New Orleans Police Department managed to be affable and authoritative.
"The song is a musical allusion to one of the most quintessential New Orleans and Mardi Gras songs, 'They All Ask'd For You, ' by the Meters, " says Harris, who fronts the New York-based Visible From Space.
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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.
Mathis rides with his Mardi Gras crew even though he no longer calls New Orleans home.
There goes a marching band, following Mardi Gras floats down Canal Street last night in New Orleans.
As Mardi Gras revelers struggled to lift the battered spirits of New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro secured its reputation as the most decadent place to be for Carnival.
New Orleans is home to Bourbon Street and Mardi Gras, but it only ranked in 24th place.
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.
Naturally, New Orleans is known for its party vibe being home to Mardi Gras.
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 has so much: culture, Bourbon Street, food, Mardi Gras Indians--you know, you name it, we have it.
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