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Mardi Gras is upon us as we approach what they call “The Friday before the Friday before” Mardi Gras Tuesday this weekend in New Orleans.

After a great Mardi Gras party at Anchor Rock Club with the Ocean Ave. Stompers presented by Conservatory Cannabis Company and Tony Mart Presents, the action swings to New Orleans where “Uptown” Jim Tuohy will be calling into the radio show this Saturday, February 22 to report on the atmosphere in a town that is flying high from a huge Super Bowl party now ready to celebrate one of the greatest and most famous of all the pre-Lenten celebrations in the world! Happy Mardi Gras to the world from New Orleans.

For a taste of Mardi Gras closer to home we’ll check in with our friend, Wayne Heaton at PJ’s Coffee located at 1201 New Road in Cornerstone, Linwood.

PJ’s Coffee, our local extension of New Orleans popular coffee house has beignets, and Mardi Gras King Cake. It is open with lots of specialty drinks featuring the flavors of the Mardi Gras and the King Cake, vanilla and cinnamon. They have whole cakes you can order from one of the best of all the king cake bakeries, Coluda’s, in New Orleans.

This is some of the best king cake I’ve ever tasted. You can get it by the slice with any specialty coffee or coffee drink as well as order the whole cakes by calling PJ’s Coffee. They also are making hot beignets so you can really enjoy the flavors of New Orleans in a way that warms you up for the Mardi Gras between now and Fat Tuesday, March 4 before Ash Wednesday begins lent on March 5.

Wayne will be with us this week to help celebrate the Mardi Gras on our radio show.

It will be Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk this summer beginning June 25 for 11 consecutive Wednesday night parties through Wednesday, September 3 pending approvals from the New Jersey State Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. We are planning another season of some of the greatest New Orleans, rhythm and blues, classic rock ‘n’ roll, jammin, Americana, rock, funk, Neo soul and rhythm and blues.

In April the full schedule will be announced with world class headliners, including tentative engagements with Ivan Neville and Dumpstaphunk, five time Grammy nominated Shemekia Copeland, one of the premier New Orleans funk bands in the world, Galactic, and Devon Allman’s Blues Summit featuring the Devon Allman Project, Jimmy Hall from legendary southern rock band, “Wet Willie”, Larry McCray and a hot Neo soul singer from New Orleans, Sierra Green and the Giants.

Phillies own star trombone player, Jeff, will take time out from his touring with Jill Scott and Patti LaBelle to perform a show on the. That night will co-star Dave Damiani‘s No Vacancy big band doing a classic tribute to the great Quincy Jones.

At the Circle Liquor Store it’s always Mardi Gras as they have the greatest selection of cocktails in a can, gourmet cocktail ingredients, seasonal brews and winter craft beers and over 200 bourbons, extensive tequila selections up to the very finest and the very best Caribbean Rums that are perfect for the Mardi Gras party. You can even learn how to make your own hurricanes and classic rum cocktails.

Circle Liquor store is open seven days a week from 9 AM until 10 PM so you can conveniently enjoy having a good time getting ready to Let the Good Times Roll. They will help you with your themed parties, your special gifts and selections from the winter wine sale continuing through this month. Check out some of the very best and most interesting new brews and seltzers.

To celebrate the coming of next year‘s winter Olympics at Milano Cortina, we’re going to focus on the great wines of northern Italy and feature very hardy and fortifying reds as well as crisp and delicate Alpine Pinot Grigio, and those super popular Prosecco wines to start the party.

One of the best ways to celebrate Mardi Gras is aboard the Big Easy Cruise leaving Port Everglades, Florida on January 18, 2026. We love the Big Easy Cruise as it features the great music, party ambience, relaxed, good times, food and festive celebration of the Mardi Gras, Jazzfest, and the powerful rich musical culture of the deep southern gulf states.

It is very hip and very laid-back, but the cavalcade of headliners is truly impressive. You should go to Bigeasycruise.com and confirm your place and tell them you want the Tony Mart discount to see an incredible array of headliners, including Little Feat, Samantha Fish, Anders Osborne, Cyril Neville, Mark Broussard and John Cleary. One of the highlights of the trip will be the cruise up the Mississippi river from the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans where everyone will have an opportunity to see one of the greatest New Orleans funk bands, Galactic, at their legendary Tipitina‘s nightclub. Back on board there will be more living legends including rock ‘n’ roll, Hall of Famer, George Porter Jr from the Meters, the authentic Soul Rebels Brass Band and Beausoleil, a true Cajun musical experience.

We can not recommend the Big Easy Cruise more strenuously! It was totally cool and so much fun with everyone friendly and polite and one great musical experience after another.

In our 51st year of spending winter time in our beloved Tucson, we are here celebrating the pre-Latin festival of Sonora, Arizona, Sonora, Mexico, and all of the Cowboys and indigenous peoples of this region. The “Fiesta de Los Vaqueros“ or Rodeo as they call it, begins with the longest non-mechanized parade in the world before several days of world class rodeo competition and fiesta.

The schools, institutions and government of Tucson and Pima County close on these days like the Mayor of New Orleans hands the keys to his city over to King Rex and King Zulu on the eve of Mardi Gras Tuesday.

Let the Good Times Roll in what we like to call the intellectual and cultural capital of the great southwestern United States!

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We want to sincerely thank Rich Gerber for enjoying the good times with us and sponsoring our show.

We are very grateful to all of our friends and we wish everyone a happy Mardi Gras and a wonderful safe winter season.

Let the Good Times Roll!