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Galveston,
TX Houston,
TX Port Arthur,
TX Lake Charles,
LA Lafayette, LA
Baton Rouge, LA Shreveport,
LA. Alexandria, LA New Orleans, La.
Biloxi, MS. Gulfport,
MS Mobile,
AL Pensacola,
Fla. Tampa,
Fla. Atlanta, GA
Mardi Gras Digest is currently the
only full time, professional, news agency that specifically & exclusively
covers Carnival, in the
United States Gulf Coast region. Our coverage area includes the
five gulf coast states of
Texas,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Alabama
and Florida. Three other states,
Missouri
,
Georgia
and Arkansas
are also covered, albeit much less extensively. These states and the large and
small cities & locations, have established themselves along with others that have totally
embraced the carnival culture and traditions and recognize the historic value of
the celebration.
However,
for those who have with a passion, totally and completely embraced the holiday,
it is not enough to merely celebrate, just simply because our families did
before us. We seek more than to understand and chronicle how we celebrate the
holiday, but also strive to know why we celebrate, to reconnect the dots to the
past of which we know next to nothing about. Therefore, we take possession of
the baton of wisdom, knowledge, and vision and with it bestowed, take up the
challenge of our new mission!
The Mission of Mardi Gras Digest is
to:
(a) Enable
the Carnival community to function as effectively as possible, by creating
a communications medium.
(b) Create
and maintain an accurate and extensive reference resource on the entire culture
and inclusive of all its elements, without regard to the club's sexual
orientation or tendencies, race, place of residence or location, affiliations,
or its member admission practices.
(c)
Seek out and document all the industry’s elements, their histories, and
their traditions.
To look upon these aspects with a healthy respect for their existence, and a
pledge of simple intent to understand, study, and chronicle, in their natural
state, with no intent to change or alter that state.
(d) Actively
Aide any element in need, where possible, and to provide proper guidance, but
only when
asked, in the
respective
New Orleans style traditions and historic accurate elements for those elements where
needed and asked.
(e)
Establish,
enable and maintain, a robust dialog between all elements of the
Carnival culture. Hopefully this dialog will in itself provoke rational thought, promoting
innovation where needed, welcomed and accepted, create ideas,
provide more information for a rich environment in
which the industry can thrive.
(f)
Actively
engage in the research necessary to become one of the main authorities on the
Carnival culture while building industry specific knowledge necessary to
publicly comment on the subject accurately and with utmost intelligence.
Mardi
Gras Digest has established an industry journal, a magazine, as well as a website,
an internet radio station and will soon add video presence, that will
serve as the Industry’s active communications medium. Furthermore, the Digest,
utilizing this medium will seek to establish and maintain a robust dialog,
amongst all functioning elements of the industry, including, but not limited to
manufacturing, & retail. However, the Digest will seek to publish vital
statistics concerning the clubs, groups, and even fringe elements, of the Mardi
Gras holiday celebrated nationwide.
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