Watch ‘tit Rex, the 2016 mini Mardi Gras parade
Were you there? The mini yet mighty ‘tit Rex Carnival parade rolled in New Orleans on January 30, 2016.
01/31/2016
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Were you there? The mini yet mighty ‘tit Rex Carnival parade rolled in New Orleans on January 30, 2016.
Posted Saturday, January 30th, 2016 Queen Barely Manbeleaux, 2013 by Janine Hayes The Uptown route is packed with five different parades today. Downtown will feature a couple more unorthodox rolls. First, Carnival’s smallest parade, the krewe formerly known as “‘tit Rex” will pull their satirical shoeboxes through the Marigny. Then, the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus will celebrate nerdom in all forms in one of the season's longest parades. The weather gods have once again bestowed
Watch as the Krewe of ‘tit Rex provides a preview of their 2016 Mardi Gras mini parade, which rolls on Saturday (Jan. 30) at 5, starting near the corner of St. Claude and St. Roch Avenues. This year’s ‘tit Rex theme is “It’s No Big Deal.”
We're having our little parade, so come out and joing us on January 30th, 5pm – starting on St. Roch & Marais on the neutral ground. ( watch, it will snow that day ) Yeah, I know the poster says St. Roch & St. Claude, but what's one block between friends?
Krewe of 'tit Rex members Veronica Russel & Michael Cerveris preparing for the 2014 Parade, ‘Wee The People’. For decades, New Orleans schoolchildren would fashion Carnival floats out of shoe boxes. Now there's a whole parade of them (Saturday, Jan. 30), courtesy of 'tit Rex, about as street-level a procession as one can imagine. (The floats are so tiny, krewe membership has been capped so as not to overwhelm members' own work.) A loose coalition of
We would like to thank Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee for sharing many of his fine images of our parade with us for this website!