Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday,” the culmination of a festive season in New Orleans which begins on Jan. 6. Also known as Carnival or Carnaval, it’s celebrated in many countries ...

Tuesday is Mardi Gras, also known by its English translation Fat Tuesday. It's the festival ... While the festival traces back to European Carnival traditions, New Orleans shaped it into the ...

Thousands of revelers lined the streets of Biloxi on Tuesday despite the threat of weather. The Gulf Coast Carnival Association Mardi Gras parade, Biloxi’s only parade on Fat Tuesday ...

(WLOX) - You could feel the carnival fever all over Biloxi on Fat Tuesday when the ... in the Jeeps,” Darling said. Tuesday was Darling’s first Mardi Gras. She’s heard stories about it ...

Carnival season has come to a close ... with 43 days from Jan. 6 to Fat Tuesday on Feb. 17. Why isn't Mardi Gras on the same day? Mardi Gras falls on a different date each year because it ...

Other cities along the Gulf Coast, such as Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, hold their own Mardi Gras Day parades. The weeks of Carnival culminate with feasting on Fat Tuesday, which ...

All Carnival parades in the Jefferson Parish ... we have made the difficult decision to cancel parades on Mardi Gras Day,” Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng said in a public statement.

Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, which takes place March 4, marks the party’s climax and the end of Carnival Season on the Gulf Coast. The conclusion falls the day before Ash Wednesday and is seen as ...

Fat Tuesday, often seen as the final burst of excitement before the solemn preparations for Easter, is today, March 4. The Carnival season, or Mardi Gras season, officially begins on Epiphany ...