NEW ORLEANS (AP) — You just can’t keep a good city down, especially when Mardi Gras is coming. All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus ...

Every year, cities across the United States pause in March to celebrate an annual festival known as Mardi Gras. The celebrations are most concentrated in areas such as New Orleans, Mobile, and other ...

Securing the best spot along the parade route to catch loads and loads of beads is what Mardi Gras is all about. But what happens to those beads after arriving home? Two organizations, LARC and Arc of ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with ...

Laissez les bon temps rouler! When you hear the French saying, which translates to 'Let the good times roll' in English, and start seeing King cakes, jester masks, colorful beads, and Cajun-inspired ...

NEW ORLEANS - Coronavirus-related limits on access to Bourbon Street, shuttered bars and frigid weather all were expected to prevent what the city usually craves at the end of Mardi Gras season — ...

So lusted after in the moment, Mardi Gras beads have a cruel afterlife. The lucky ones find a useful purpose long after the parades stop: decorating a fence, maybe, or as an eye-catching art project.

Mardi Gras might look a bit different in 2021. Due to it being a religious holiday, the city cannot cancel Mardi Gras, but celebrating it safely amid the coronavirus pandemic is a different matter.

Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads. Some Mardi ...

Mardi Gras has a reputation for making a lot of trash. Waste can add up to millions of pounds each year. But some Krewes are finding new ways to cut down on their environmental footprint. At the Krewe ...