The store offers an extensive Mardi Gras inventory including "all types of beads, trinkets, T-shirts and other items" for decoration and parade floats.

Most days the median of Bienville Boulevard is just a median, a grassy strip of land dividing the main thoroughfare that runs ...

For more than 15 years, Colleen Phillips and her mother Valerie Smith with D-Val Designs have provided Mardi Gras royalty with extravagant costumes. The process begins with a conversation with each ...

Fletchinger said her family’s company started by producing stuffed animals that are prizes in penny arcade claw machines.

Around the Gulf Coast, there’s also a pretty good reason to keep it up: Mardi Gras. Given the close proximity to Christmas and the start of the Mardi Gras season, Mardi Gras trees are another ...

Some associate it with Mardi Gras, others with a celebration known as Epiphany. King cake is eaten on January 6 in honor of Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, which historically marks the arrival of the ...

During Harrison’s time as police chief, a drunken driver plowed into Mardi Gras parade-goers in 2017, injuring 28 people. New Orleans hosted multiple Super Bowls during Harrison’s career at ...

Each year on Jan. 6, as other Americans are taking down their Christmas decorations, residents in New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf South start hanging Mardi Gras beads and ordering their ...

Of course, I was logical enough to know that there would be a few exceptions, such as a black gown that is perfect for any black-tie or black-tie-optional wedding, even if I don’t currently have a ...