NEW ORLEANS — Gray skies did nothing to deter thousands of people crowding the streets in the French Quarter, the Marigny and Uptown on Tuesday for the last parades of the 2020 Carnival season. The ...

Rex and Comus courts meet at the finale of Mardi Gras in 1986 and 2020.

Everyone in New Orleans knows the essential Mardi Gras songs. The likes of “Carnival Time,” “Mardi Gras Mambo,” “Go To the Mardi Gras,” “Big Chief” and “Second-Line, Pt. 1” are as baked into the ...

Revelers decked out in traditional purple, green and gold came out to party on Fat Tuesday in New Orleans’ first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020. The fun includes back-to-back parades across the city ...

How did Mardi Gras, a religious holiday, become a time to cut loose and party hard? It originated from French tradition and ...