One of America's biggest cultural celebrations, Mardi Gras, will take place soon, just before the start of the Easter season.

Shaquille O'Neal, Katy Perry and Harry Connick Jr. are just some of the stars who've tossed beads and had a blast over the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Happy Mardi Gras! Parades are rolling this Fat Tuesday. Many parades are on ... necks hunched from a hefty haul of shimmery beads, were renowned Black masking Indians, whose ...

Mardi Gras gives people the opportunity to celebrate before the Lenten season, where many give up habits for 40 days. Here's ...

NEW ORLEANS — Happy Mardi Gras! Parades are rolling this Fat Tuesday ... Charles Avenue & Calliope Street Tuesday Morning Thousands of revelers adorned in beads and outlandish costumes will ...

The spirit of Mardi Gras is alive and well: the love of life (joie de vivre), the enjoyment of music, food (especially king ...

Webber, a New ... Orleans. “People were encouraged to use up butter, oil, and meat products and not have them on hand because they could not be eaten during Lent – hence (how) Fat Tuesday ...

Mardi Gras is literally ‘fat Tuesday’ in French ... surviving examples of ‘throwing’ in new Orleans are Japanese mercury glass beads, made during World War II, and the early 20th century ...

NEW ORLEANS — Happy Mardi Gras! Parades are rolling this Fat Tuesday. Many parades are on ... necks hunched from a hefty haul of shimmery beads, were renowned Black masking Indians, whose ...