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New Carnival rules OK’d
Murrill says she’s lost trust with N.O. officials
Morrell: ‘Pursuing vendettas is beneath all of our offices’ BY JOHN SIMERMAN, JAMES FINN and MATT BRUCE Staff writers
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Tracy Boudreaux removes beads from the Mardi Gras tree on the Tulane campus. The New Orleans City Council approved changes Thursday for the 2027 Carnival season. Grills, tents, furniture and toilets remain prohibited, but fines for violators will increase.
Earlier parade start times, new parking restrictions finalized BY JONI HESS Staff writer
The New Orleans City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a long list of changes for Mardi Gras 2027 that will bring earlier parade start times, new parking restrictions and stiffer penalties for breaking the rules. The city ordinance changes, some of which were initiated by the Mayor’s Mardi Gras Advisory subcommittee and the New Orleans Police Department in partnership with krewes, aim to cut down on overtime costs, improve public safety and keep the parades moving. Later that day, the advisory committee met to discuss increases to parade permits to help defray costs associated with Carnival. “It’s a season that’s designed to provide
an opportunity for everyone to have a good time, and if you’ve got obstructions to people having a good time, you know you’re in the wrong place in New Orleans,” council member Eugene Green said. City Council President JP Morrell, who proposed the changes to the council, said the NOPD was concerned about enforcement, so the council approved higher penalties for violators that include misdemeanor criminal charges instead of just civil fines. Grills, tents, furniture and portable toilets remain prohibited in public spaces along routes, but the fines for violators will increase from $250 to $1,000 and $2,000 each day thereafter. Under the changes, five parades will have new start times. The Krewe of Druids, which typically rolls the Wednesday before Mardi Gras,
will start at 5 p.m., instead of 6:15 p.m. Start times for parades rolling the Friday before Mardi Gras would remain the same, but Krewe d’Etat will roll first followed by the Krewe of Hermes and the Krewe of Morpheus, rather than Hermes leading the way. On the Saturday before Mardi Gras, Tucks would start 30 minutes later, at 1 p.m. Morrell said a few parades moved to an earlier time last year, and it proved to be beneficial. “It resulted in a tremendous amount of cost savings for the city. We were able to reduce overtime, … get officers, sanitation workers, EMS workers, everyone back at home to rest before going back out again,” he said.
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If New Orleans looks upon her as a felon, Attorney General Liz Murrill chalks it up to bad influences in the city. “They literally think that I’m a criminal because everybody told them I was,” Murrill said in a lengthy interview Thursday, a day after special prosecutor Laurie Murrill White dismissed the 16-count indictment that lit a political firestorm in Louisiana. The Republican attorney general heaped much of the blame on District Attorney Jason Williams and Mayor Helena Moreno, saying she has reason to suspect Williams held influence over the grand jury despite his recusal a month before the indictment on charges of public intimidation and malfeasance in office. Murrill concedes the fingerprints remain blurry on the blockbuster indictment, but she argues that Williams, at minimum, led the grand jury off the rails and said she won’t soon forget it. “They incited this and they fed it. They promoted a false interpretation of law,” Murrill said. “And whether they directly put a grand juror up to it or not, other individual agencies will have to determine. But you can’t
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Angelo Brocato III, of historic dessert shop, dies at 85
Italian ice cream and confectionery business ‘was his joy’ BY IAN MCNULTY Staff writer
Dropping in for a cup of gelato or a cannoli at Angelo Brocato Ice Cream and Confectionery can make anyone feel just a bit more Italian. For many years, a greeting from co-owner Angelo Brocato III, with a big smile under a bushy mustache and his trademark straw hat, could feel like visiting with an Italian uncle over the sweet treats. Now the Brocato family, and the extended community they’ve built around the New Orleans area, are mourning his loss. Brocato died Wednesday at home while in hospice care following a
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long illness, confirmed his brother Arthur Brocato. He was 85. “It was his joy,” he said of his brother’s love of the business. “There was a lot of pride in his Sicilian heritage here, and he just enjoyed being around the people.” Arthur Brocato and his wife, Jolie, have managed the family business for many years and continue to operate it. The Mid-City shop at 214 N. Carrollton Ave. opened for business as usual the day after the elder Brocato’s death. Some of the first customers walking in expressed sympathy over the dessert counter and shared stories of their old friend. There are plenty to tell.
The Brocato family traces a direct line back to Sicily, and the village of Cefalu, near Palermo. That’s where namesake Angelo Brocato Sr. was born and where he first learned the gelato trade as a young boy. After immigrating to the U.S., he worked sugar cane fields in the River Parishes to earn money to open his own shop in 1905. It originally opened in the French Quarter, which at the time was the city’s Little Italy, packed with Sicilian immigrants and businesses serving them. Angelo Brocato’s shop became a
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Angelo Brocato III stands in front of a display case at Angelo Brocato Ice ä See BROCATO, page 4A Cream and Confectionery’s Italian ice cream parlor in New Orleans.
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