In the weeks leading up to Mardi Gras on Feb. 25, the streets of New Orleans are filled with a series of extravagant parades organized by local krewes. Saturday night's parade was a glittering, glowing procession of Wookiees, Trekkies, and other self-proclaimed sci-fi geeks and super-nerds: the tenth annual parade of the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus . Members of the Women of Wakanda sub-krewe, Sonita Singh (left), Wankeeta Jackson and Apryl Bailey, prepare to parade with the Krewe of Chewbacchus in New Orleans. Saturday night's parade was a glittering, glowing procession of Wookiees, Trekkies, and other self-proclaimed sci-fi geeks and super-nerds. L. Kasimu Harris for NPR The krewe's name is, as you might guess, an irreverent mashup of Chewbacca , the shaggy 8-foot Wookiee from Star Wars , and Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. "That is a huge part of the krewe: mashups, puns and stacking together things that you love," said one of the krewe's captains, Brooke Ethridge, better
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