If you’ve never experienced Mardi Gras first-hand, a giant bar crawl on Bourbon Street involving college kids imbibing to excess and inexplicably baring all for some plastic beads may come to mind.

Each year, millions celebrate Fat Tuesday, a day to feast on rich and fatty foods, marking the end of the Mardi Gras Carnival and the beginning of Lent. Many Americans are familiar with the huge Mardi ...

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — On Tuesday, while many along the Gulf Coast celebrated Mardi Gras with beads and parades, culinary students in Port Arthur marked Fat Tuesday with flour, frosting and a hands-on ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. — As people head back to work Tuesday after the long holiday weekend, beads will be flying, crawfish boiling, and parades rolling in New Orleans as the city celebrates Mardi Gras.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS — From the porch of his family’s home in Uptown New Orleans, Gerard “Little Bo” Dollis remembers being small enough to ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Every Mardi Gras season, thousands of pounds of brightly-colored beads rain down from floats onto the crowds—but when the music stops and the streets clear, many of those beads ...

Merriment, misrule, moxie, and a caboodle of beadage can all add up to an effervescent, over-the-top, sound-the-trumpets to-do, the kind that has long been synonymous with Mardi Gras. True, the beads ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock New Orleans has grown to regret something about Mardi Gras — and it has nothing to do with Bourbon Street.

On Super Sunday, a 150-year-old tradition of painstaking craftsmanship is put on display in New Orleans’ streets with suits made of delicate beads and billowing ostrich feathers. On Super Sunday, a ...

(NewsNation) — “Mardi Gras,” “Fat Tuesday” in French, is a celebration before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period of prayer and fasting for Christians. The celebration ...