GayNewOrleans.COM • SouthernDecadence.COM • GayEasterParade.COM • Jan. 30-Feb. 12, 2007 • AmbushMag.COM • MAIN~1 of 56 MAIN~2 of 56 • AmbushMag.COM • Jan. 30-Feb. 12, 2007 • The One & Only Official Gay Mardi Gras Guide • GayMardiGras.COM GayNewOrleans.COM • SouthernDecadence.COM • GayEasterParade.COM • Jan. 30-Feb. 12, 2007 • AmbushMag.COM • MAIN~3 of 56 local brass band talent is one of the few Krewe du Vieux traditions not currently the "official" dish being gutted, demolished, called into special session or waiting on a Road to Gulf South Entertainment/Travel Guide Since by Rip & Marsha Naquin-Delain Nowhere application. 1982 • Texas-Florida RipandMarsha.COM The Krewe du Vieux is a non-profit organization dedicated to the historical OFFICE/SHIPPING ADDRESS: E-mail: [email protected] 828-A Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA 70116-3137 and traditional concept of a Mardi Gras USA parade as a venue for individual creative Warden Chris Rose expression and satirical comment. It is OFFICE HOURS: 10am-3pm unique among all Mardi Gras parades Monday-Friday [Except Holidays] To Lead Inmates’ Escape because it alone carries on the old Carni- E-mail: [email protected] Parade, Krewe du Vieux val traditions, by using decorated, hand or PHONE: 1.504.522.8049 • 1.504.522.8047 mule-drawn floats with satirical themes, 2007 on Feb. 3 ANNUAL READERSHIP: accompanied by costumed revelers danc- Has there ever been a crazier 650,000+ in print/3.5 Million+ On-line ing to the sounds of jazzy street musi- year? In Washington, the Repub- cians. We believe in exposing the world to NATIONAL CIRCULATION: licans turned a few pages – and " the true nature of Mardi Gras — and in USA... Alabama-Birmingham, Mobile turned Congress over to the Democrats. Florida - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami/South Beach, exposing ourselves to the world. The Army Corpse of Engineers admitted Pensacola • Georgia - Atlanta The 2007 Krewe du Vieux parade is Louisiana - Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake they broke New Orleans, but the federal dedicated to the memory of past march- Charles, Metairie, New Orleans, Shreveport, Slidell government won’t pay to fix it. Mississippi - Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Jackson ers Dinerral Shavers and Helen Hill." The State of Louisiana set up its Road- Texas - Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Eustace, For more information about the Krewe Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, block Home program and hired the fa- du Vieux parade, please contact Keith South Padre Island mous “lowball”, out-of-work New Orleans Twitchell, Poobah of Publicity, at assessors to set property values, but can’t STAFF: 504.943.7970. The Krewe du Vieux web understand why citizens aren’t ecstatic PUBLISHER/EDITOR site is www.kreweduvieux.org. R. Rip Naquin-Delain, New Orleans about receiving those $500 checks to re- PRODUCTION DIRECTOR build their houses. Not-All-States Insur- M. Marsha Naquin-Delain, New Orleans ance Company dropped Louisiana Barkus Parade Feb. 11 GULF SOUTH/NEW ORLEANS AD SALES homeowners like Devery Henderson Rip Naquin-Delain • 504.522.8049 through French Quarter LESBIAN/POLITICAL ISSUES drops touchdown passes, proving con- he 2007 Krewe of Barkus Pa- Toni J.P. Pizanie, New Orleans clusively that they are the Bad Hands rade starts at Armstrong Park TEXAS SALES REP people. on Sun., Feb. 11 promptly at Garry Holley • 512.291.1563 T THEATRE/PERFORMING ARTS CRITIC them to at the State Palace Theater, 1108 Back here in the City That Bush For- 2pm and proceeds on its traditional 15- Brian Sands, Patrick Shannon got, the uptown white racists re-elected Canal Street for the annual Krewe du Vieux block route through the Vieux Carré, stop- AD REPS/JOURNALISTS/PHOTOGRAPHERS our black mayor; the Jefferson Parish Doo. Doors open at 8pm, with the show ping at the VIP Reviewing Stand at Good Bob Hemby-Austin, TX Brad Benedict-Baton Rouge, LA Chinese racist sheriff re-elected black starting at 9pm. The featured music this Friends Bar, corner Dauphine and St. Ann, year will be Emotional Rescue – A Tribute Patrick Clinton-Lafayette, LA congresscrook Dollar Bill Jefferson; and where VIPs (and those who desire to be Starr Daniels, Miss Dee, Donnie Jay, to bottom it all out, Krewe du Vieux is to the Legends of New Orleans R&B. VIPs) will toast the Royal Court. Douglas Minich, Chris Schlumbrecht -New Orleans turning 21 but still ain’t legal. Opening up will Billy Iuso and the Rest- Roy Williams-Pensacola, FL No wonder they say that anyone in less Natives plus special guests, and CARTOONIST Kevin M. Butler there will be an exciting late night set by Big NATIONAL ADVERTISING REP New Orleans who isn’t seeing a shrink Rivendell Media~212.242.6863 must be crazy. Chief Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias. AMBUSH Mag is published on alternate Tues- With construction costs rising like Tickets are $25 per person, available at days of each month by Ambush, Inc., R. Rip Naquin- storm surge and enough fly-by night con- the Louisiana Music Factory, 210 Decatur Delain, President. Advertising, Copy & Photo DEAD- Street; Miss Claudia’s Vintage Clothes LINE is alternate Tuesdays, 4pm, prior to publication tractors in town to keep a thousand taco week, accepted via e-mail only: [email protected]. wagons rolling, Krewe du Vieux is making and Costume Shop, 4204 Magazine Street; The Publisher assumes no responsibility for the claims its own contribution to the urban sea- and Up in Smoke, 4507 Magazine Street. of advertisers and has the right to reject any advertis- The Krewe du Vieux’s seventeen ing. The inclusion of an individual's name or photograph scape, by building a Habitat for Insanity. in this publication implies nothing about that individual's We’ll snort a little sawdust (through stolen subkrewes will each present their own bi- sexual orientation. Letters, stories, etc., appearing copper pipes), screw some studs, lay polar, bisexual, bifurcated, fornicated, syn- herein are not necessarily the opinion of the Publisher new concrete (among others), and erect a dicated, sinuous, sinful, soulful, woeful or Staff of AMBUSH Mag. Subscription rate is $45 for interpretations of the theme. Subkrewes 1/2 Year; $75 for 1 year. Sample Copy is $3 First Class magnificent monument to manic depres- Mail. sion. The final folly will be paraded through include the Krewe of C.R.U.D.E., Krewe of ©1982-2006, AMBUSH, INC., ALL RIGHTS the potholes of Faubourg Marigny and the Space Age Love, Krewe of Underwear, RESERVED. NOTHING HEREIN MAY BE REPRO- French Quarter on Saturday, February 3 at Seeds of Decline, Krewe of Mama Roux, DUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF 7pm. Krewe of L.E.W.D., Krewe of Drips and THE PUBLISHER INCLUDING AD LAYOUTS, Playing warden over this inane asy- Discharges, Krewe of K.A.O.S., Knights of MAPS and PHOTOS. AMgrant - AMbush Ad- lum will be Times-Picatune columnist Mondu, T.O.K.I.N., Krewe Rue Bourbon, vertising Grant Donation and scribe of the city’s soul Chris Rose. Krewe de C.R.A.P.S., Krewe of PAN, Mystic Well-versed in insanity, profanity, Brittanity, Krewe of Spermes, Krewe of Comatose, Armstrong Park opens to all at 10:30am and FEMA’s inhumanity, the monarch with Mystic Krewe of Inane, and Krewe du The Pawty (before, during & after pa- and is the staging area for the parade one skeleton in closet will write first and Mishigas. rade) at Armstrong Park is open to all at no participants. ask questions later. Also marching will be many of the charge to hear the music and see the The inmates’ escape route will take city’s top brass bands. Showcasing the sights! Edibles and potables available. 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