John Pope

1 month ago | nola.com | John Pope

When Howell Crosby was a teenager in the 1970s, he spent three Fat Tuesdays crammed inside the Rex organization’s Boeuf Gras float, pulling the string that made the knife-wielding butcher figure move. He said it was fun inside that box. He was paid, too — $5 for each of the first two years, then $7.50 – but nobody saw him.

1 month ago | nola.com | John Pope

When Tatum Lady Reiss reigns as Rex’s consort on Tuesday, she will wear a glittering crown and wield a bejeweled scepter as she beams and acknowledges cheers at the Rex ball. Not long ago Reiss, 22, sat in her family’s Uptown New Orleans living room holding a golden crown, but it wasn’t glittering. Instead, it was plastic, and she had to inflate it to show it off. But no matter. That faux diadem, which Reiss’ father, James J.

1 month ago | shreveportbossieradvocate.com | John Pope

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2 months ago | shreveportbossieradvocate.com | John Pope

Look! Here comes the parade!First comes the king, of course, perched on his throne on a crown-topped float drawn by two white horses. Behind him, a float teems with jesters who wave at spectators lining the curb and filling balconies of French Quarter buildings. Then come floats representing a pirate ship in full sail, manned by cutlass-wielding buccaneers; an architectural dig evoking “Raiders of the Lost Ark”; space travel; and a castle under siege.

2 months ago | theadvocate.com | John Pope

Look! Here comes the parade!First comes the king, of course, perched on his throne on a crown-topped float drawn by two white horses. Behind him, a float teems with jesters who wave at spectators lining the curb and filling balconies of French Quarter buildings. Then come floats representing a pirate ship in full sail, manned by cutlass-wielding buccaneers; an architectural dig evoking “Raiders of the Lost Ark”; space travel; and a castle under siege.