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life TODAY'S NEWS TO GO! WWW.MAYSVILLE-ONLINE.COM/LIFESTYLES FRIDAY, 02.24.2012 | B1 MARY FOSTER AND STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS | Officers on horseback cleared Bourbon Street early Wednesday, de- claring an end to Carnival 2012 in New Orleans as Mardi Gras revelers began to prepare for the beginning of Lent, the period of fasting and repentance before Easter. Streams of people poured into the French Quarter as the sun began to set Tuesday to continue the party that began earlier along the city’s traditional Garden District family-friendly parade route which follows stately St. Charles Avenue. Bathed in springlike warmth and showered with trinkets, beads and music, New Orleans reveled in the excesses of Fat Tuesday. The drinking was in full swing shortly after dawn, and with it came outrageous costumes and flesh-flashing that drew thousands to the Quarter. New Orleans police said late Tuesday they were investigating a stabbing on Esplanade Avenue but had few details. In a second incident, two people were shot in the leg and two suspects were taken in custody, police said. Tom White, 46, clad in a pink tutu, bicycled with his wife, Al- lison, to the French Quarter. “I’m the pink fairy this year,” he said. “Costuming is the real fun of Mardi Gras. I’m not too creative but when you weigh 200 pounds and put on a tutu people still take your picture.” His wife was not in costume. “He’s disgraced the family enough,” she said. Brittany Davies struggled with her friends through the morn- ing, feeling the effects of heavy drinking from the night before. “They’re torturing me,” the Denver woman joked. “But I’ll be OK after a bloody mary.” Indeed, the theme of the day was party hard and often. Wearing a bright orange wig, a purple mask and green shoes, New Orleans resident Charlotte Hamrick walked along Canal Street to meet friends. “I’ll be in the French Quarter all day,” Hamrick said. “I don’t even go to the parades. I love to take pictures of all the costumes and just be with my friends. It’s so fun.” Across the globe, people dressed up in elaborate costumes and partied the day away. In Rio de Janeiro, an estimated 850,000 tourists joined the city’s massive five-day blowout. Meanwhile, the Portuguese, who have suf- fered deeply in Europe’s debt crisis, defied a government ap- peal to keep working. In the Cajun country of southwest Louisiana, masked riders went from town to town, making merry along the way in the Courir du Mardi Gras. And parades were held elsewhere around Louisiana and on the Gulf coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. The celebration arrived in Louisiana in 1682 when the explorer LaSalle and his party stopped at a place they called Bayou Mardi Gras south of New Orleans to celebrate. The predominantly African- American Zulu krewe was the first major parade to hit New Orleans’ streets, shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday. Most krewe members were in the traditional black-face makeup and Afro wigs Zulu riders have sported for decades. They handed out the organization’s coveted decorated coconuts and other sought-after trinkets. BILL HABER, ASSOCIATED PRESS A member of Pete Fountain’s Half Fast Marching Club hands out beads as the club begins it’s traditional parade through the streets of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 21. This is the last day of the Mardi Gras celebration ending at midnight, after a day long celebration of parades, marching groups and people in costumes. DANIELA PETROFF Associated Press MILAN | After several weeks of snow and subfreezing tempera- tures in Italy, the chill is out of the air — at least weather-wise — and Italian designers are look- ing at the bright side of things as they begin the latest round of preview showings for fall-winter 2012-2013. The tightly-packed fashion week calendar boasts 70 shows and as many events, including showroom presentations, store openings and “aperitivi,” the Italian version of a cocktail party. All the top billed names were scheduled to introduce their winter collections, from Armani to Fendi, from Gucci, Prada and Versace. The Italian Fashion Chamber has set up a press center in the shadow of the Duomo, or ca- thedral, in downtown to Milan to accommodate some expected 15,000 fashionistas in town for the shows and has mounted a show tent in front of one of Mi- lan’s favorite monuments, the Sforzesco Castle, where several of the shows will be held. “We’re hoping for a triple-A season, with no downgrading,” said Mario Boselli, president of the fashion chamber said at a press conference ahead of the shows in a quip reflecting Italy’s downgrading by ratings agencies as the nation struggles to avoid financial disaster. The designing duo Dolce&Gabbana, who never miss an opportunity to celebrate, are throwing a mega party over the weekend. On Friday, Vogue America’s Anna Wintour and Miuccia Prada will co-host a preview presentation of the ex- hibit entitled “Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion” to open at the Metropolitan Mu- seum’s Costume Institute in New York in May. On Wednesday the first day of the 7-day preview showings, both Gucci and Ferretti present- ed a woman who keeps her feet firmly on the ground while let- ting her feminine fantasy fly. Italian winter fashion opts for dark LUCA BRUNO, ASSOCIATED PRESS A model wears a creation part of the Alberta Ferretti women’s Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection that was presented in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 22. CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK | Pepsi is hop- ing to win back soda drinkers with a compromise. Some people don’t like the calories in regular soda, but loathe the taste of zero-calo- rie diet drinks. So the nation’s No. 2 cola company is rolling out “Pepsi Next,” a cola that has about half the calories of regular Pepsi at 60 calories per can. The cola, which is slated to hit store shelves nationally by the end of March, is Pepsi’s biggest product launch in years. The drink comes as people increasingly move away from sugary drinks to water and other lower-calorie beverages because of health concerns. It’s also an attempt by Pepsi to revive the cola wars against Coke and others. Pepsi Next isn’t the first drink to try to hit the sweet spot between diet and regular cola. Dr Pepper Snapple rolled out its low-calorie Dr Pepper Ten, which has 10 calories. The company said the drink, which has sugar unlike its diet soda, helped boost its fourth- quarter sales. But coming up with a suc- cessful “mid-calorie soda,” which has more calories, has been more challenging for beverage makers. In 2001, Coke rolled out “C2” and Pepsi in 2004 introduced its “Pepsi Edge,” both of which had about half the calories of regular soda. Both products also were taken off the market by 2006 because of poor sales. “The problem was that consumers either wanted reg- ular soda or a diet drink with zero calories — not something in between,” said John Sicher, editor and publisher of Bever- age Digest. Pepsi says its latest stab at an in-between soda uses a different formula to more closely imitate the taste of regular soda. Pepsi Next is made with a mix of three ar- tificial sweeteners and high fructose corn syrup. A Pepsi spokeswoman, Melisa Tezanos, said the com- pany developed the cola by researching the “taste curve” that consumers experience when drinking regular soda. She compared that arc to how someone might evaluate a sip of wine, from the moment the liquid hits the tongue to the aftertaste it leaves. Pepsi’s mid-calorie soda aims to win back drinkers WITH 60 CALORIES ‘PEPSI NEXT’ TRIES TO LURE THOSE WHO DON’T LIKE DIET OR REGULAR SODA Costumes, beads give way to ashes NEW ORLEANS See ASHES, B2 See FASHION, B2 See PEPSI, B2
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WWW.MAYSVILLE-ONLINE.COM/LIFESTYLES FRIDAY, 02.24.2012 | B1
MARY FOSTER AND STACEY PLAISANCEAssociated Press
NEW ORLEANS | Officers on horseback cleared Bourbon Street early Wednesday, de-claring an end to Carnival 2012 in New Orleans as Mardi Gras revelers began to prepare for the beginning of Lent, the period of fasting and repentance before Easter.
Streams of people poured into the French Quarter as the sun began to set Tuesday to continue the party that began earlier along the city’s traditional Garden District family-friendly parade route which follows stately St. Charles Avenue.
Bathed in springlike warmth
and showered with trinkets, beads and music, New Orleans reveled in the excesses of Fat Tuesday. The drinking was in full swing shortly after dawn, and with it came outrageous costumes and flesh-flashing that drew thousands to the Quarter.
New Orleans police said late Tuesday they were investigating a stabbing on Esplanade Avenue but had few details. In a second incident, two people were shot in the leg and two suspects were taken in custody, police said.
Tom White, 46, clad in a pink tutu, bicycled with his wife, Al-lison, to the French Quarter. “I’m the pink fairy this year,” he said. “Costuming is the real fun of Mardi Gras. I’m not too creative
but when you weigh 200 pounds and put on a tutu people still take your picture.”
His wife was not in costume. “He’s disgraced the family enough,” she said.
Brittany Davies struggled with her friends through the morn-ing, feeling the effects of heavy drinking from the night before.
“They’re torturing me,” the Denver woman joked. “But I’ll be OK after a bloody mary.”
Indeed, the theme of the day was party hard and often.
Wearing a bright orange wig, a purple mask and green shoes, New Orleans resident Charlotte Hamrick walked along Canal Street to meet friends.
“I’ll be in the French Quarter all day,” Hamrick said. “I don’t
even go to the parades. I love to take pictures of all the costumes and just be with my friends. It’s so fun.”
Across the globe, people dressed up in elaborate costumes and partied the day away. In Rio de Janeiro, an estimated 850,000 tourists joined the city’s massive five-day blowout. Meanwhile, the Portuguese, who have suf-fered deeply in Europe’s debt crisis, defied a government ap-peal to keep working.
In the Cajun country of southwest Louisiana, masked riders went from town to town, making merry along the way in the Courir du Mardi Gras. And parades were held elsewhere around Louisiana and on the Gulf coasts of Mississippi and
Alabama.The celebration arrived in
Louisiana in 1682 when the explorer LaSalle and his party stopped at a place they called Bayou Mardi Gras south of New Orleans to celebrate.
The predominantly African-American Zulu krewe was the first major parade to hit New Orleans’ streets, shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday. Most krewe members were in the traditional black-face makeup and Afro wigs Zulu riders have sported for decades. They handed out the organization’s coveted decorated coconuts and other sought-after trinkets.
BILL HABER, ASSOCIATED PRESSA member of Pete Fountain’s Half Fast Marching Club hands out beads as the club begins it’s traditional parade through the streets of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 21. This is the last day of the Mardi Gras celebration ending at midnight, after a day long celebration of parades, marching groups and people in costumes.
DANIELA PETROFFAssociated Press
MILAN | After several weeks of snow and subfreezing tempera-tures in Italy, the chill is out of the air — at least weather-wise — and Italian designers are look-ing at the bright side of things as they begin the latest round of preview showings for fall-winter 2012-2013.
The tightly-packed fashion week calendar boasts 70 shows and as many events, including showroom presentations, store openings and “aperitivi,” the Italian version of a cocktail party. All the top billed names were scheduled to introduce their winter collections, from Armani to Fendi, from Gucci, Prada and Versace.
The Italian Fashion Chamber has set up a press center in the shadow of the Duomo, or ca-thedral, in downtown to Milan to accommodate some expected 15,000 fashionistas in town for the shows and has mounted a show tent in front of one of Mi-lan’s favorite monuments, the Sforzesco Castle, where several of the shows will be held.
“We’re hoping for a triple-A season, with no downgrading,” said Mario Boselli, president of the fashion chamber said at a press conference ahead of the shows in a quip reflecting Italy’s downgrading by ratings agencies as the nation struggles to avoid financial disaster.
The designing duo Dolce&Gabbana, who never miss an opportunity to celebrate, are throwing a mega party over the weekend. On Friday, Vogue America’s Anna Wintour and
Miuccia Prada will co-host a preview presentation of the ex-hibit entitled “Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion” to open at the Metropolitan Mu-seum’s Costume Institute in New York in May.
On Wednesday the first day
of the 7-day preview showings, both Gucci and Ferretti present-ed a woman who keeps her feet firmly on the ground while let-ting her feminine fantasy fly.
Italian winter fashion opts for dark
LUCA BRUNO, ASSOCIATED PRESSA model wears a creation part of the Alberta Ferretti women’s Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection that was presented in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 22.
CANDICE CHOIAssociated Press
NEW YORK | Pepsi is hop-ing to win back soda drinkers with a compromise.
Some people don’t like the calories in regular soda, but loathe the taste of zero-calo-rie diet drinks. So the nation’s No. 2 cola company is rolling out “Pepsi Next,” a cola that has about half the calories of regular Pepsi at 60 calories per can.
The cola, which is slated to hit store shelves nationally by the end of March, is Pepsi’s biggest product launch in years. The drink comes as people increasingly move away from sugary drinks to water and other lower-calorie beverages because of health concerns. It’s also an attempt by Pepsi to revive the cola wars against Coke and others.
Pepsi Next isn’t the first drink to try to hit the sweet spot between diet and regular cola. Dr Pepper Snapple rolled out its low-calorie Dr Pepper Ten, which has 10 calories. The company said the drink, which has sugar unlike its diet soda, helped boost its fourth-quarter sales.
But coming up with a suc-cessful “mid-calorie soda,”
which has more calories, has been more challenging for beverage makers. In 2001, Coke rolled out “C2” and Pepsi in 2004 introduced its “Pepsi Edge,” both of which had about half the calories of regular soda. Both products also were taken off the market by 2006 because of poor sales.
“The problem was that consumers either wanted reg-ular soda or a diet drink with zero calories — not something in between,” said John Sicher, editor and publisher of Bever-age Digest.
Pepsi says its latest stab at an in-between soda uses a different formula to more closely imitate the taste of regular soda. Pepsi Next is made with a mix of three ar-tificial sweeteners and high fructose corn syrup.
A Pepsi spokeswoman, Melisa Tezanos, said the com-pany developed the cola by researching the “taste curve” that consumers experience when drinking regular soda. She compared that arc to how someone might evaluate a sip of wine, from the moment the liquid hits the tongue to the aftertaste it leaves.
Pepsi’s mid-calorie soda aims to win back drinkersWITH 60 CALORIES ‘PEPSI NEXT’ TRIES TO LURE THOSE WHO DON’T LIKE DIET OR REGULAR SODA
Costumes, beads give way to ashesNEW ORLEANS
See ASHES, B2
See FASHION, B2 See PEPSI, B2
