Christmas parades, football playoffs and New Year's events in New Orleans

• National Guard and State Police will staff checkpoints on Bourbon Street, plus there will be increased NOPD and federal patrols, NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says.

Events

🎶 Flow Tribe has its annual Christmas Crunktacular at Tip's on Thursday. (Tickets)

🐑 Visit a live nativity at Memorial Baptist in Metairie, starting Thursday. (Details)

📻 Hear "It's A Wonderful Life" as a live 1940s radio broadcast Friday at the National WWII Museum. (Tickets)

🩰 See the Nutcracker this weekend at JPAS and the Orpheum.

🤩 Parades: Woodmere Wonderland rolls at 11am Saturday in Harvey. (Route)

• Jingle on the Boulevard rolls at noon Saturday in New Orleans East. (Route)

🍽️ Palace Cafe, which closed this year, has a pop-up Saturday at The Commissary. (Details)

🎄 NOLA ChristmasFest starts Saturday at the Convention Center. (Tickets)

🕯️ Caroling in the Square is at 7pm Sunday. (Details)

🤠 Cowpoke Christmas is a queer honky tonk Sunday night at Siberia. (Details)

Football

🏈 Tulane and Ole Miss face off in Oxford Saturday for a spot in the Sugar Bowl. (What could happen)

• The winner will play Georgia on New Year's Day.

🤞 The Saints play the Jets at home at noon Sunday.

🎉 New Orleans Bowl is Tuesday. Western Kentucky plays Southern Miss at the Caesars Superdome. (Tickets)

New Year's

• Sugar Bowl New Year's Eve Parade at 2pm in the French Quarter.
• Free New Year's Eve concert at Woldenberg Park.
• Fleur-de-lis drop at Jax Brewery on New Year's Eve
• Fritai's Haitian independence celebration Jan. 1.
• More New Year's events