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

The Marche du Nain Rouge took a funky waltz through Midtown Sunday. The unique event mixes Mardi Gras, Groundhog Day and Detroit mythology.

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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 ...

If you live somewhere without public events, you can still celebrate by making or eating King Cake, or having a costume party with your friends. Why is Mardi Gras big in New Orleans? New Orleans ...

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 ...

As for the shirts and pants, they served the same purpose, mocking the fancy costumes worn by royals. Since most Acadians were poor, Rider said they just used whatever materials were available. Rider ...

“Mardi Gras is all about having these moments ... Thousands of revelers sporting beads and outlandish costumes filled the streets as New Orleans prepared to celebrate just ahead of bad weather.

“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 ...