Champagne Vending Machine at this NOLA Hotel Makes Every Day New Year's Eve

The motto of New Orleans is 'Let the Good Times Roll'. Nowhere is that more true than at the...

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The elaborate costumes have been put away, city streets were cleaned (within two hours of the end of parades) and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport saw a seven-year high in the number of passengers travelling through the airport. From a decline in arrests to a rise in airport passengers, Mayor Mitch Landrieu last week hailed the Carnival season in New Orleans, which ended on Ash Wednesday, as a success.

It's glitter season in New Orleans. A time for feathers, paper mache, sequins, paint, bailing wire, bones, and just about any other item that can be used for decoration. Across garages, kitchen tables and warehouses, residents are feverishly sewing elaborate costumes, painting floats and decorating custom throws.

A branch of US Homeland Security busted a cocaine smuggling operation in New Orleans last Sunday. Five men, including three crew members were arrested on felony charges when the Norwegian Dawn arrived from the Roatan cruise port in Honduras.