They’re now a sign of community, family, and festivity—but crawfish used to mean something very different in Louisiana’s ...

Allison Brophy Champion Feb 26, 2025 Feb 26, 2025 0 Grab some beads and your dancing shoes, satisfy your appetite for local culture and flavors and mask up for Culpeper’s own signature version of ...

With jazz music filling the air and the vibrant colors of Mardi Gras beads adorning every corner ... Known for its vibrant ...

New Orleans is preparing to make Mardi Gras 2025 an unforgettable celebration. The festivities commence on January 6 and culminate on Fat Tuesday, March 4, during which the city will be alive with ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — If you attended any Mardi Gras parades this season, you may be asking yourself, “What do I do with all of these beads?” Fairhope’s second Wawa, 5th in Alabama ...

Tuesday is Mardi Gras, also known by its English translation Fat Tuesday. It's the festival that happens before the start of Lent, the 40-day period observed by certain Christian denominations ...

Witnesses supposedly threw Mardi Gras beads at the truck, with some reports claiming one of the windows even cracked under the attack. This runs contrary to Tesla's assertions of essentially ...

And each year during Mardi Gras, they take it to the streets ... Armor is formed of towering feathered suits, adorned with beads and sequins and weighing up to 150 pounds. Bead by bead, maskers ...

Well, nobody knows why they do it, but they come up by the thousands to jump for those doubloons and beads even though ... expected storm and celebrate Mardi Gras Day as they always have.

“While best known for parties, costumes and beads, Mardi Gras has religious origins in the Catholic calendar as well as in pre-Christian pagan celebrations,” HuffPost tells us ...

Mardi Gras festivities are underway in New Orleans early Tuesday morning despite a forecast of severe weather expected later in the day. The city’s iconic Fat Tuesday parades are adapting to the ...

Amid the weather threat and security measures, Mardi Gras celebrations persevered. Along with colorful floats and paradegoers with their necks hunched from a hefty haul of shimmery beads ...