Mardi Gras season is well underway, and Fat Tuesday is right around the corner. In the U.S., the annual celebration has deep ties to New Orleans, but its origins stretch back to well before ...

From beads and balls to boudin and gumbo to glittery parade floats and sounds of Zydeco, Texas offers a hearty serving of Mardi Gras fun this year. Mardi Gras Galveston is the queen of the Mardi Gras ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS — From the porch of his family's home in Uptown New Orleans, Gerard "Little Bo" Dollis remembers being small enough to ...

It's time for parades, beads, masks and revelry. It's time to fill up on the sweets and party all night. It's Mardi Gras time! Before the big day – or week for our New Orleans friends – here’s ...

Trudy Ring is The Advocate's senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is ...

Mardi Gras came to New Orleans through its French heritage in 1699. Early explorers celebrated this French Holiday on the banks of the Mississippi River. Throughout the years, Orleanians have added to ...

Shreveport-centric Mardi Gras celebrations can be traced all the way back to Shreveport’s Reconstruction period. The first recorded Mardi Gras celebration was in 1874. It was followed the next year by ...

Carnival is coming to a close and metro Detroiters will soon be lining up to stock up on paczki, a Mardi Gras favorite. Fat Tuesday — "mardi gras" in French — is Tuesday, Feb. 17, one last hurrah ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jodie Smith dances along the parade route while marching in the Bastrop Mardi Gras Parade last year. Fat Tuesday falls on Feb. 17 ...