✨🌲 Celebration in the Oaks: Where Grown-Ups Go to Feel Magical (and Maybe a Little Naughty)
COMING SOON!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn If you think the holidays are just for kids, sugar, then you clearly haven’t seen Celebration in the Oaks — New Orleans’ annual light extravaganza in the heart of our gorgeous, sprawling City Park. Starting November 28 through January 1, the park transforms into […]
🦃✨ Why Thanksgiving in New Orleans Is the Best Kept Secret for Adults (Who Know How to Live)
COMING SOON!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn Let me tell you something that most of America still hasn’t figured out: Thanksgiving in New Orleans is the undercover holiday jackpot for grown-ups who want to escape the casserole chaos and do the holiday their way. Every year, while everyone else is pretending […]
Po’ Boys, Beignets, and Bad Decisions — Just Another Weekend in the French Quarter
COMING SOON!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director | Historic Mardi Gras Inn Let’s be honest, darlin’ — some of the best weekends in New Orleans start with a po’ boy, end with a beignet, and involve at least one gloriously questionable decision somewhere in between. But isn’t that exactly why we love this city? The […]
Po-Boys, Brass Bands & Pure Bliss — A Love Letter to the Oak Street Po-Boy Festival
COMING SOON!!! By Karen Brem, Marketing Director | Historic Mardi Gras Inn If heaven had a dress code, it would probably be “casual, with crumbs on your shirt.” And nowhere embodies that vibe better than the Oak Street Po-Boy Festival, returning November 16, 2025, for a day of overstuffed sandwiches, overflowing beer, and the kind […]
🥂 Stuffed, Spicy, and Sinfully Good — The Beignets of 2025 Are Breaking All the Rules!
COMING SOON!!! Hey y’all! Karen Brem here — Marketing Director for the Historic Mardi Gras Inn, the newly renovated, fabulously glowing, and proudly LGBTQ+ owned and operated boutique inn sitting just one sweet block from the French Quarter. And let me tell you — November 15, 2025, is about to get downright delicious. Because that’s […]
“Spice, Soul, and Second Lines: The Treme Creole Gumbo Festival Is Stirring Up the Weekend!” 🍲🎺💃
COMING SOON!!! Hello, foodie friends, festival fanatics, and lovers of all things Creole and chaotic! I’m Karen Brem, your ever-enthusiastic Marketing Director for the Historic Mardi Gras Inn—the most charming (and might I say glowing) little spot in New Orleans. And honey, if there’s one thing this city knows how to do, it’s throw a […]
🎭 Boo-tiful Chaos Awaits: The 2025 Krewe of BOO! Parade Is Rolling Through New Orleans! 👻
COMING THIS WEEKEND!!! Hey there, spooky souls and party ghouls — it’s Karen Brem, your ever-enthusiastic Marketing Director at the Historic Mardi Gras Inn, here to spill all the ghostly tea on one of my favorite events of the year: The Krewe of BOO! Parade! 🎃🦇 New Orleans — named one of the “13 Best […]
🎭👠 Get Off the Sidewalk, Sweetheart — The Real Party’s on the Balcony! 👻💀
COMING THIS WEEKEND!!! Hey my ghoulish glam squad! 💋 I’m Karen Brem, Marketing Director for the fabulously haunted, freshly glowed-up ✨ and now proudly LGBTQ+ owned and operated 🏳️🌈 Historic Mardi Gras Inn, located just one block off the French Quarter and a two-minute strut to the streetcar stop 🚋. Halloween in New Orleans isn’t […]
🩸💀 Ghouls, Gods & Gay Glam: Why You Need to Be in New Orleans for HNO 2025 (Book Your Stay Now, Darlings) 💀🩸
COMING SOON!!! Greetings, creatures of style and spooky delight 🕸️— I’m Karen Brem, Marketing Director at the Historic Mardi Gras Inn, and yes, I’m here to personally haunt your calendars. Because if you love Halloween, costumes, queer energy, and a New Orleans that leans fierce and freaky, then Halloween New Orleans (HNO) 2025 is your […]
🩸 The Vampire Ball 2025: Where New Orleans Sucks (In the Best Way Possible)
By Karen Brem, Marketing Director, Historic Mardi Gras Inn COMING SOON!!! New Orleans doesn’t just do Halloween — we inhale it, swirl it around with some bourbon, and serve it over crushed ice with a side of “Oh, honey, you’ve got to see this costume.” 😈 So when November 1st rolls around and the mere […]