The tableau came alive with costumes, illustrative images flashing on the screen and court members completing the scene with ...

The NOLA Funk Festival isn’t until October, but Friday night, March 14 at Tipitina’s features a line-up reveal show for this year’s Festival. This unforgettable concert will feature a huge roster of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The good times and parades still rolled in New Orleans for Mardi Gras Day celebrations early ... whose spectacular beaded and bejeweled costumes are topped with feathered ...

Mardi Gras Day: Thousands of revelers sporting beads and outlandish costumes filled the streets as New Orleans prepared to celebrate just ahead of bad weather. People donning skeleton masks and ...

“Mardi Gras is all about having these moments ... Thousands of revelers adorned in beads and outlandish costumes were filling the streets as New Orleans prepared to celebrate just ahead of ...

(KLFY) — Rain, sleet, hail or snow, Eunice said Mardi Gras was a go ... shredded them up and made costumes, so nobody could recognize who they were. They wanted to have some type of party ...

costumes and revelry. Like other mid-winter holidays such as Mardi Gras, it’s about the reversal of norms, a temporary upside-down reality that lets us let loose and imagine alternative realities.

“While best known for parties, costumes and beads, Mardi Gras has religious origins in the Catholic calendar as well as in pre-Christian pagan celebrations,” HuffPost tells us ...

Bourque, who was fully decked out in a Mardi Gras costume, explained that the parade is a tradition that brings people together year after year. She added that her costume held a special ...