Mardi Gras in New Orleans is called "The Greatest Free Show on Earth." Here's what to know about its popular symbol: the Mardi Gras masks.

The colorful poster features a man dressed in uniform with a Mardi Gras mask and headpiece that includes a New Orleans shotgun-style home and musical instruments vital to a second line.

The Mardi Gras season, also known as Carnival, begins on January 6th and ends on March 4th, 2025. The first Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. took place in 1699, but celebrations were temporarily ...

Laissez les bons temps rouler! It's time to let the good times roll at a Mardi Gras celebration near you! Plan your parade strategy early, grab a king cake to celebrate the season and get ready to ...

If you’re just passing through North Baton Rouge, you might think Dougherty Drive looks like all the others, until you get ...

The Korea Bizwire reported in 2023 that the park announced plans to host a series of Mardi Gras-inspired parades, featuring floats and performers donning masks and dressed as jesters, similar to ...

SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI (WKRG) — WKRG News 5 is your guide for all things Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast. Here we’re keeping track of Mardi Gras 2025 parade schedules in Southeast Mississippi.

King’s Mardi Gras Parade rolls at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, and Biloxi’s 12th Night celebration will roll at 5 p.m. on Sunday. After the New Orleans attack that killed 14 people — including ...

OCEAN SPRINGS: Ocean Springs Elks & Krewe Unique Parade, 1 p.m. BILOXI: GCCA Annual 5K Run for the Beads, 8:45 a.m., check-in starts at the Gulf Coast Carnival Association Office (792-A Howard ...

While folks in New Orleans claim they started the tradition of Mardi Gras in the U.S., historians say French colonists began celebrating the festival not long after first spotting Mobile Bay in 1699.

“As a born and raised native of the Mardi Gras center of the universe — New Orleans — I look forward to bringing a taste of the Big Easy to the nation's capital,” he said. One of Louisiana ...