Tuesday is Mardi Gras, also known by its English translation Fat Tuesday. It's the festival that happens before the start of Lent, the 40-day period observed by certain Christian denominations ...

Biloxi, Miss. 2. In honor of Twelfth Night, Jan. 6 marks the day when king cakes are famously unveiled for the Carnival season ahead of Mardi Gras. Following tradition, what is hidden inside of a ...

Why isn't Mardi Gras on the same day? Mardi Gras falls on a different date each year because it is based on a system that revolves around Easter, which also doesn't occur on the same day every year.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Basile’s Mardi Gras celebration or “Courir de Mardi Gras” is as unique as they come, with traditions dating back generations. “It’s been going on for many more years than I ...

“There’s two things you don’t cancel, Christmas and Eunice Mardi Gras,” Andrew Miller of Eunice said. Andrew and his wife Kylie Jo Miller said they run the Courir De Mardi Gras every year.

“Following a Mardi Gras run by car, which many people do, allows the viewer to engage in what is being witnessed, as opposed to being one single face in a crowd of masked folk having various ...

“Mardi Gras is all about having these moments. This city is like nowhere else in the country right now,” said Kendall Calyen, 41, marveling at the 200-year-old tradition unfolding before his eye ...

French-Canadian explorer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville arrived at a plot of ground 60 miles directly south of New Orleans, and named it ‘Pointe du Mardi Gras.’” The first Mardi ...

“Due to the forecasted high winds and potential threat to public safety, we have made the difficult decision to cancel parades on Mardi Gras Day,” Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng ...

Mardi Gras festivities are underway in New Orleans early Tuesday morning despite a forecast of severe weather expected later in the day. The city’s iconic Fat Tuesday parades are adapting to the ...

Get your beads and King Cakes out! Mardi Gras is officially upon us! The annual celebration is one of the most iconic cultural events in the United States, known for exuberant parades, festive ...

Here are the changes to Mardi Gras schedule in Lafourche on Tuesday, March 4. Krewes of Shaka and Ghana - 8 a.m., Thibodaux. Krewe of Gheens - 10:30 a.m., Gheens. Krewe of Neptune - 11 a.m ...