The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, does a curtsy while holding the hand of her husband, the Duke of Windsor, former King ...

On this day 160 years ago, an important page in American history was written when the Mistick Krewe of Comus presented the first Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday. Comus brought order to ...

John Milton's masque "Comus" may have gotten a few laughs when it was first performed in 1634, but certainly not every time the word "chastity" was mentioned. The staged reading of "Comus" presented ...

Regarding the James Gill column "Carnival not what it used to be, when parades had class," the Comus Krewe that he so admires set the racist pattern of New Orleans Mardi Gras that still echoes today.

Come one and come all to No Skips, a weekly column where I review the music of olden times and justify why certain albums have no skippable tracks. As promised last week, we’re looking at another case ...

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