New Orleans on and after Halloween

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Fifty Reasons Fall Is the Best Season

Steve Garbarino, Because * * * New Orleans Takes Halloween Dead Serious; If you want a haunting autumn getaway, this city buries all others. Wall Street Journal, Sept 17, 2016.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the- ... -orleans-1473865960

Note:
(a) "Krewe of Boo parade (Oct 22) * * * At the parade, which rolls through the French Quarter, with all its hidden gardens and Anne Rice-inspiring alleyways, participants with skeleton face-paint and monster-themed floats rival Mexico City's Day of the Dead for eerie eye-candy."
(i) In the sentence that starts with "At the parade," both "participants" and "floats 花车 [noun]" are subjects and "rival" is the verb.
(ii) Krewe of Boo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krewe_of_Boo
(2008- )

* krewe (n; alteration of crew; First Known Use 1936): "a private organization staging festivities (as parades) during Mardi Gras in New Orleans"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/krewe
(iii) French Quarter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Quarter
(A) French-English dictionary:
* vieux (adjective masculine; from Latin [adjective masculine] vetulus [old] [This Latin word also gave rise to the noun "veteran" in English): "old"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vieux
* carré (noun masculine; from Latin [noun masculine] quadrātus [square]): "square"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carré
(B) French grammar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_grammar
("Most adjectives, when used attributively, appear after their nouns [an example]. A number of adjectives (often having to do with beauty, age [such as 'vieux'], goodness, or size, a tendency summarized by the acronym 'BAGS'), come before their nouns")
(iv) Anne Rice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice
(1941- )
(v) Day of the Dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

This Wiki page does not mention parade in Mexico. Search images.google.com with (día de muertos  mexico city parade).
(vi) eye candy (n): "something superficially attractive to look at"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20candy

(b) I stop here, because the rest of the text does not appear to be unique. Do view photos.