Here’s a look at Mardi Gras, a celebration held the day before the fasting season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. March 4, 2025 – Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday). January 6 – Carnival season celebrations ...

This year's Mardi Gras Galveston celebration will feature more than 20 different events with multiple local krewes.

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“It’s very troubling that this problem was identified in 2019 and the incoming City ... “gummed up” by everything from beer to Mardi Gras beads and stopped working reliably, he said.

An examination of visuals, witness accounts and city planning documents reveals that security lapses in New Orleans left ...

“It’s very troubling that this problem was identified in 2019 and the incoming City ... “gummed up” by everything from beer to Mardi Gras beads and stopped working reliably, he said.

City officials were warned in 2019 that the bollards designed to ... were quickly jammed with Mardi Gras beads and stopped working, said Rafael Goyeneche, head of the city’s independent ...

Landrieu-era administration officials said Mardi Gras beads and debris were a problem ... for the French Quarter Management District in 2019 concluded the bollards needed to be urgently replaced.

According to a New York Times report, city officials were warned in 2019 that Bourbon Street ... they were damaged by debris, including Mardi Gras beads. However, officials in New Orleans have ...

However, Mardi Gras beads and other debris jammed the mechanisms ... and Interfor International’s 2019 report found that security in the French Quarter was handled in a “patchwork manner ...