The Thursday night before Mardi Gras is one of the most popular slots in the Carnival calendar, with three lighted parades following one after another along the Uptown route amid enormous crowds. In 2025, the Babylon parade kicked off the evening at 5:30 p.m., followed by Chaos, then the mammoth Muses procession.

But in a memo to the City Council this week, representives of the three processions proposed that next year the Thursday night parade lineup get rolling an hour earlier, at 4:30 p.m.

Furthermore, the krewes propose that the Knights of Chaos parade swap places with the Knights of Babylon parade, to make Chaos the first parade of the Thursday lineup. Babylon would follow Chaos at 5:30 p.m., and Muses would cap off the night, starting a half-hour earlier than usual at 6 p.m.

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