NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — This year’s Bacchus parade will have basketball star Shaquille O’Neal reigning as its celebrity monarch, but with O’Neal being over 7-feet tall, Bacchus needed a bigger throne. It ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — As we count down to Mardi Gras day, krewes host some of the city’s biggest parties leading up to their rolls through New Orleans. The Super Krewe Bacchus announced on Thursday, ...
NEW ORLEANS — For more than 50 years, the Krewe of Bacchus has been about pushing the envelope when it comes to Carnival. Last year, the krewe debuted two new, state-of-the-art signature floats: the ...
Fifty years ago, the Krewe of Bacchus was given birth by two fathers: restaurateur Owen “Pip” Brennan Jr., the parade’s founding captain, and Blaine Kern, the float-building visionary. The Brennan and ...
Bacchus LVII is wasting no time spreading the Carnival spirit before the parade rolls. On Friday morning, he brought smiles to the faces of children who won't be able to be on the parade route Sunday ...