Each year, more than a million visitors travel to New Orleans to partake in the city’s world-famous Carnival celebrations.

Three parades will roll Thursday night in New Orleans with scores of masked riders on colorful floats. More processions will ...

Mardi Gras, which began as a religious holiday, has become a weeks-long celebration, one that gives millions the opportunity to let loose and over-indulge before Lent, a 40-day season of prayer ...

It's the magical season of Mardi Gras! The New Orleans carnival season ... in the days before the somber Christian period of Lent arrives. If you can't make the trek down to Louisiana to share ...

Lent will run from March 5 to April 17 in 2025, ending the day before Good Friday. Easter will be celebrated on April 20 this year. In March, Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday — celebrations will ...

Mardi Gras is a festive celebration and Carnival, originally a custom where people would use all the fats in their homes before Lent to prepare for fasting and abstinence—hence the name Fat Tuesday.

The day before the start of Lent is filled with parties and celebrations throughout the U.S., and even in many other cities around the world. Mardi Gras is rooted in the traditions of various ...

Here's everything to know about upcoming holidays, including Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and Lent. Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, is the end of pre-Lenten season and is ...

Founded last year, the krewe has combined its love of Mardi Gras with a decidedly community improvement ethos, using their appearances in the Mosaique parade last month and again this week in ...

Anthony Anderson sets up his camper in a parking lot off Dauphin Street on Thursday, staking his claim in a changed Mardi Gras landscape. For the second year, “RV City” is no more due to ...