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...February In a month chock-full of competing tributes such as Black History Month, Groundhog Day, Presidents Day and Mardi Gras, Valentine's Day romance dominates with signature hearts alongside red, pink, white and black lace. Find savings on housewares, fabric and seeds for the garden...
...unusual about Christmas in the Big Easy is the bonfires that light the way for Pere Noel. Hundreds of towering fires burn on the levees so the jolly gent, who travels by boat, can find his way along the Mississippi. Just as parish and civic groups compete in the Mardi Gras parade, at Christmas they create fantastic forms--including replicas of boats and plantation homes--out of logs stuffed with dry cane. The bonfires burn between the early-evening Christmas Eve church service and midnight Mass. Many watch the exploding cane from a paddle wheeler or a riverboat...
...Swamp Fox--Ohio Representative Mike Oxley and Louisiana Representative Billy Tauzin--held dueling parties during the week, bankrolled by many of the companies regulated by the committees. Both lawmakers drew on their personal traditions. Tauzin threw a mini Mardi Gras featuring Cajun cuisine, flashy beads and the New Orleans sound of the Neville Family Celebration. Oxley reached back to his love of early rock 'n' roll with a lineup that included Chubby Checker and Frankie Avalon at the site of the old American Bandstand show, where his wife used to dance as a Philadelphia bobby-soxer. The immemorial Dick Clark...
...Islands 10. Gov't agency banning pesticide chlorpyrifos 11. Tussaud's medium 16. She's at odds with 45-Down over campaign fund raising 20. Name on a 1973 decision 22. Beatnik home 23. Gore is proposing a $30 billion __ care program 25. Folk singer DiFranco 26. Mardi Gras figure 28. Churchillian gesture 29. Bloomers worn around the neck 30. Auto corp. that will extend health care to gay partners 31. Bill's partner 32. He spent more than $30 million on his New Jersey Senate nomination 34. High dudgeon 37. Reuben need 39. Hardly a blabbermouth 41. 1998 animated...
...city is host to many other popular festivals each year, starting with a Mardi Gras observance in early spring and including a Creole Heritage Festival, jazz and folk festivals and a Festival of Lights in December. The area's cultural offerings are enhanced by Northwestern State University, which has 9,000 students and supports an acclaimed symphony, ballet, dinner theater and music recitals...