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There's no Rex and no King Zulu, so that means for Carnival 2021, houses are king. House Floats are popping up everywhere people love Mardi Gras, and they're just as diverse as they are widespread.

It started like any other Carnival parade, with a screaming police siren and lights splashing the arms of oak trees. But City Park’s “Floats in the Oaks” attraction that opened at dusk ...

Beads have been central to the annual Carnival parade in Provincetown ... years when gobs of plastic beads were thrown, mostly from floats, with many of them landing in the streets where they ...