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FILE - This Jan. 6, 2015, file photo, shows members of the Phunny Phorty Phellows, celebrating aboard a streetcar in New Orleans. It's the official end of the Christmas season but just the start of the season leading up to New Orleans' biggest street party, Mardi Gras. A couple of walking parades and streetcar-riding groups touch off revelry climaxing on Fat Tuesday itself — Feb. 25 this year. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, image made from video, a woman dressed as a mermaid pulls a wagon containing an inflatable seashell full of beads in the Krewe of Cork parade in New Orleans. New Orleans now boasts some 50 walking Carnival clubs that parade throughout the Mardi Gras season. That's the most ever in the city's long Carnival history, making Mardi Gras more colorful and diverse than ever before. (AP Photo/Stacey Plaisance)

From satirical to silly, walking clubs spice up Mardi Gras

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For Mardi Gras float makers, next year is here

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Carnival revelers wave to passing floats near the start of the Krewe of Endymion parade, which was postponed for an hour because of heavy rain, in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)

For Mardi Gras float makers, next year is here

By Stacey Plaisance - Associated Press