The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club is exhibiting several of its beautiful and elaborate costumes and artifacts at the Main Library through the end of February. This exhibit provides viewers the ...

Meet the mastermind behind the Zulu costumes One of the special thinsg about Mardi Gras is the costumes. With Zulu having some of the most elaborate, meet the man behind the costume design.

This Tuesday's Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans has thrust into the spotlight a controversial local tradition dating back more than 100 years. Every year, members of the city's Zulu Social Aid ...

Zulu Spear, a Bay Area Afro Beat band that reformed in 2012 after a breakup that lasted nearly two decades, completes its comeback with a long-awaited new album, “Dancing in the Jungle.” The 10-member ...

IN THE 1980S, Zulu Spear was one of the most successful and sensational world music bands in the Bay Area, releasing a major label album, touring nationally and sharing stages with Ladysmith Black ...

Helen Amber Koenig, who for decades provided the raw materials for elaborate Mardi Gras Indian costumes, died Monday. She was 94. “Miss Helen,” as her customers knew her, co-owned Broadway Bound, a ...