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Ambush: Your Official Gay Mardi Gras Guide
This giant edition of Ambush Mag, your Official Gay Mardi Gras Guide, brings readers some 65 pages advertising the hottest activities happening in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Metairie and Slidell, LA; Austin, TX; and Pensacola, FL. You'll find the best DJs, entertainment and all special events of Official Gay Mardi Gras throughout these 84 pages. You won't be disappointed! Ambush continues as Louisiana’s only tabloid, the only New Orleans Gay owned and operated tabloid, and the Gulf South’s oldest and largest Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender [GLBT] regional publication covering the lucrative Texas to Florida market. Visit www.AmbushMag.COM or www.GayMardiGras.COM.
Ambush has worked diligently with businesses, organizations and tourism officials striving to make the communities it serves as top GLBT destinations in the world. Ambush’s success is largely due to its policy of inclusion representing all aspects of the GLBT community. The publication also gives hundreds of thousands of dollars each year back in services and monies through its AMgrant [Ambush Advertising Grant Program] to the communities which make Ambush possible, now totalling over $2 million in donations for the past 20 years.
Drink, Dine, Shop; Get a Hair Cut or Tattoo; or Workout in New Orleans
The Crescent City is renowned for its numerous drinking party establishments. In this issue of Ambush you will find numerous bar related activities centered around Mardi Gras. As you look through the ads, you are sure to find just the activity you want to experience this Carnival Weekend.
Restaurants, grills and delis are in abundance as well. You’ll want to see Chop Chop in this issue for Ambush’s dining recommendations.
Of course shopping is every true Queen’s delight! Alternatives has great gift ideas, beads, t-shirts and more.
Airline Adult Books in Kenner and sister store Chartres Street Conxxxion in the Quarter boasts some of the very best in adult films, novelties and gifts.
For Carnival, Pride and all seasonal beads you'll want to try Beads By The Dozen.
The Bourbon Strip-Tease boasts exotic clothing, sexy dance wear, plus adult gifts and toys.
Carnival Mart is an excellent choice for beads including penis and tit ones.
Chi-wa-wa Ga-ga has great Mardi Gras gear for that "dinky little dog" in your family.
Crescent City Camera does one hour photo work and develops any and all pics.
French Quarter Camera can take care of all your one hour photo needs for all those naughty pics.
Gargoyles Clothing, Leather and Shoes has great leather/latex/vinyl and incredible drag pumps.
The Herb Import Company has herbal smoking blends, Magic Mushrooms and detox products.
Hot Chocolate has those x-rated chocolates, sexy cakes and adult toys.
Maskarade boasts masks, jewelry and great gift ideas.
Mary’s True Value Hardware can help you out with keys for those extra guests as well as items for the home and garden.
Mumphrey's Pharmacy will deliver medications right to your door or hotel room.
New Orleans Grab Bag Company has a wonderful array of gifts, but don't leave the city without your own Mardi Gras MisChief doll. Louisiana artist, Connie Born, artfully captures the spirit of Louisiana in her fun and exciting creations. MisChief creations are handcrafted of carefully selected fabrics and topped off with fanciful hair. They are dressed in skirts and necklaces made of Mardi Gras beads.
Paradise Adult Video in Kenner is an excellent stop for videos, adult toys and the like.
Queen Fashions is your Mardi Gras drag headquarters with absolutely fabulous heels, clothing and wigs, both in the Quarter & Metairie.
Rab Dab Clothing and Gifts offers T-shirts, as well as just the right skimpy attire those big ole beefy circuit boys like to wear, showing off those buff bods. Get there specialty beads as well.
Royal Rags can outfit you with costumes and incredible jewelry.
Serendipitous Masks has incredible jewelry and masks fit for any queen.
Something Different uptown and at Esplanade Mall is absolutely one of the best card and gift shops in town for the discriminating shopper.
Vieux Carre Hair Store has wigs, lashes and all the essentials.
Wig World has the best in outrageous wigs for the season.
Do you need help with hair?
Brenda Laura’s Hair Asylum is one of the best with an array of hit stylist.
Eclipse Hair & Body Studio does waxing, skin bronzing, cuts and color.
Salon Du Beau Monde can take care of all men’s grooming needs.
For tattoos you’ll want to try Electric Ladyland Tattoo New Orleans who does body piercings and custom and traditional tattoos.
The Club New Orleans boasts 5 floors of Mardi Gras fun. The Club has the latest workout equipment to keep you circuit boys in tip top shape.
Flex New Orleans is a great men’s spa complete with a full gym, sauna, steam room, snack bar, hot tubs and so much more.
Accommodations
Hotel accommodations can be booked right on-line through any of the AmbushOnLine Websites by clicking on its travel banners to get a room, a car or a flight. The sites register over 3.5 million hits and 375,000 unique visitors per month. Visit www.GayNewOrleans.COM and click on Accommodations and Lodging in New Orleans.
Other on-line lodging services include A List regular Big Easy/French Quarter Lodging.
Maison Mario, 1604-06 Pauger St., is a marvelous choice. Maison Mario is an authentic Creole cottage that’s been beautifully renovated while remaining true to it’s original style. With enough modern conveniences to please any guest, they are located in the historic Faubourg Marigny District—just a short walk to anywhere in the French Quarter! Visit www.maisonmario.com.
Other choices available on-line include AFrenchQuarterAccommodation.com, Bigeasy.com Hotel Reservations, Creole Inn, Elysian Fields Inn, Elysian Guest House, House of David, Kims 940 Night Club & Guest House and New Orleans Guest House.
Flowers
And how could anyone not have fresh flowers for this season. Excellent choices include Emile's Floral Design, French Quarter Florist, St. James Floral Co., Tommy's Flowers and Tommy's on the Park Flowers.
Wally Sherwood Appears as Merlin in Mardi Gras Poster
A side from producing this year’s Official Gay Mardi Gras Poster, Larry Graham of Graham Studio One fame, is also releasing a second poster featuring French Quarter Icon©, Wally Sherwood as "Merlin". The poster is also entitled, "Merlin—It’s Not How Tall You Are, It’s How High You Reach". Wally’s poster for Mardi Gras is the latest addition to the series by Graham, "Icons, Leprechauns, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus". The series, mostly of New Orleans’ residents, shows the wide variety of Graham’s photographic clients and ability.
Each poster is 11 x 17 inches in full rich color on enamel paper. The series is limited to 100, signed and numbered by the photographer. Graham’s work along with these new additions to his series can be viewed and purchased on the Studio website, GrahamStudioOne.com. Available soon will be Graham’s interpretation of "Young Bacchus" and opera legend, "Brünnhilde" from Wagner’s "Die Walküre".
The Studio can be contacted by calling 504.943.0037 or through the website.
Cavaliers Sets Ambitous Ride Calendar
With warmer weather on the way, the Cavaliers Motorcycle Club has announced its ambitous ride calendar for the spring and summer riding season. The club plans to go to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and back to Louisiana. Events for Louisiana’s only gay motorcycle club include its first weekend ride and camping trip.
March — LUEY (Let Us Entertain You Weekend) Weekend, Houston, TX — The Cavaliers head to Houston the weekend after Mardi Gras for that city’s biggest annual leather event. This will be the Cavaliers first weekend road trip, and will include a special day trip to Galveston.
April — Jungle Gardens, Avery Island, LA — The Cavaliers will visit the famous home of Tabasco pepper sauce and tour the 200-acre Jungle Gardens in full spring bloom.
May — Red Bluff Road, Columbia, MS — The Cavaliers will ride the twistiest road in the region. Red Bluff Road snakes along the Pearl River between Columbia and Monticello, MS. Come see why it’s called "Mississippi’s Little Grand Canyon."
June — Spring Creek Campground, Geneva, AL — The Cavaliers rough it on their first weekend camping trip. They head for Spring Creek Campground in southern Alabama (near Pensacola) for a weekend in the great outdoors at the gay camping resort.
July — Grand Isle, LA — The Cavaliers take a summertime ride through the coastal marshes to Louisiana’s only inhabited barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico.
August — Mississippi Gulf Coast — The Cavaliers beat the heat by taking a twilight ride to the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast. The evening ride will be full of fun and surprises.
Full details for these events are available at www.cavaliersmc.com.
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