After the double grand march at the conclusion of the Carnival season of almost two months, the monarchs of the Rex Organization and of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, founded respectively 1872 and ...

These blocks can force the weather to remain stagnant for days at a time. Once such pattern is known as a Rex block. Named for the meteorologist who first discovered this feature, Rex blocks form ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — The toast from the King of Carnival, Rex, cements the Mardi Gras 2025 season. Rex 2025, Howell Crosby, toasted the Rex Organization in front of Pascal's Manale Restaurant on ...