Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brainy (if eccentric) visionaries holed up in a rambling Victorian mansion perched on a hillside in Berkeley, California. The MTV-style graphics are supplied by designer Bart Nagel, the overcaffeinated prose by Ken Goffman (writing under the pen name R.U. Sirius) and Alison Kennedy (listed on the masthead as Queen Mu, "domineditrix"), with help from Rudy Rucker and a small staff of free-lancers and contributions from an international cast of cyberpunk enthusiasts. The goal is to inspire and instruct but not to lead. "We don't want to tell people what to think," says assistant art director Heide Foley...
...Washington, the king, queen and princesses will attend events such as "Louisiana Alive," where the best chefs of Louisiana will flaunt their skill, according to Jefferson. The princesses and several honorary queens will pay homage to Jefferson and Bryan, who will reign over the formal ball from an elaborate throne...
Forty-six years ago, the Louisiana Congressional delegation, chaired this year by William Jefferson, began to bring Mardi Gras to Washington for delegates who could not go home to New Orleans, according to Bryan. The chair of the delegation traditionally appoints friends or relatives to be king and queen...
...selection of a Black king and queen is more representative of the true multicultural tradition of the Mardi Gras festival. Bryan said...
Jefferson said the presence of a Black king and queen is more incidental than symbolic of any progress, since Black presence at Mardi Gras has always been strong...