With the passing of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Day, the next season of celebration is Mardi Gras. Here is when, where and how the good times will roll for Mardi Gras in the ...

The Mardi Gras season, also known as Carnival, begins on January 6th and ends on March 4th, 2025. The first Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. took place in 1699, but celebrations were temporarily ...

Mardi Gras, also known as Carnival, is a deeply interesting celebration that contrasts excessive eating and drinking starting in January with 40 days of fasting and penance starting on Ash ...

Jesters and other characters dressed in the familiar purple, green and yellow tones of Mardi Gras and a float reminiscent of those at New Orleans Carnival parades can be seen passing by in the ...

New Orleans residents and visitors will be able to don purple, green and gold for a little longer during the 2025 Mardi Gras season, which will last over twice as long as last year's celebrations.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Although most Mardi Gras parades in Mobile use one route, there are multiple routes that parade-goers should know before heading out the door. Most of the Mobile ...

King’s Mardi Gras Parade rolls at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, and Biloxi’s 12th Night celebration will roll at 5 p.m. on Sunday. After the New Orleans attack that killed 14 people — including ...

A little after the official Mardi Gras holiday, the Bossier Arts Council and the East Bank District are throwing one last big event.

While folks in New Orleans claim they started the tradition of Mardi Gras in the U.S., historians say French colonists began celebrating the festival not long after first spotting Mobile Bay in 1699.

“As a born and raised native of the Mardi Gras center of the universe — New Orleans — I look forward to bringing a taste of the Big Easy to the nation's capital,” he said. One of Louisiana ...

Mardi Gras is sort of a moveable feast, and we’re in for a couple of big swings. For 2025, Fat Tuesday falls on March 4, three weeks later than 2024’s Feb. 13 date. How much of a difference ...

OCEAN SPRINGS: Ocean Springs Elks & Krewe Unique Parade, 1 p.m. BILOXI: GCCA Annual 5K Run for the Beads, 8:45 a.m., check-in starts at the Gulf Coast Carnival Association Office (792-A Howard ...