No stranger to disasters and hardship, New Orleans transforms itself and its traditions based on what befalls it. Take the changes wrought by 2005's Hurricane Katrina, and those from the ...

Chef Philip Hall from Beach House restaurant comes in the studio to prepare and decorate his Mardi Gras King Cake.

She plans to use the palm trees in front of her home as decoration for tiki huts. But the drive to turn houses into Mardi Gras floats goes beyond just keeping the holiday tradition alive.

“If you say, ugh we can’t go to New Orleans, ugh it’s jam packed, well then just go to the Mardi Gras House Float!” His decorations will of course stay up throughout Carnival Season.

Olive Branch Mardi Gras parade featured a mix of flying beads, big-band jazz, and a menagerie of colorful floats up and down ...

More than a decade later, the coronavirus shutdown brought a revolution in decorating, turning whole houses into landlocked floats. And the craze spread internationally. So just as Mardi Gras has ...