***TIME CHANGES & Updated Parade Information***
The Superkrewe of Endymion will move its parade to Sunday, following the Krewe of Bacchus, krewe officials announced Friday evening.In addition, the Krewe of Tucks will move its parade from noon to 10 a.m. Saturday morning. Iris will still roll at 11 a.m. The Krewe of NOMTOC, which rolls in Algiers, will move out an hour earlier than scheduled - now rolling at 9:45 a.m.
About the DVD The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown (Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city s two carnivals. With unprecedented access, she traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry; diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats. Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historical violence and power dynamics, elusive forces that keep this hallowed tradition organized along enduring color lines.
