Barcadia (601 Tchoupitoulas St.) becomes the South Pole as the starting point of the annual Running of the Santas, which concludes at the North Pole (Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive) seven blocks away.

Running of the Santas started in 1997 in Philadelphia as a bar-hopping exercise for a bunch of friends looking to celebrate the holidays. Two years ago, the event made it to New Orleans and has since attracted 2,000 costumed revelers, vying for the chance to be singled out as Cute...