Mardi Gras, also known as Carnival, is a deeply interesting celebration that contrasts excessive eating and drinking starting in January with 40 days of fasting and penance starting on Ash ...

Mardi Gras in Louisiana is a beloved holiday, and its also a notorious cultural tradition. Louisiana celebrates Mardi Gras due to the French-Catholic settlers who inhabited Louisiana during the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - We’re just six days from the 26th Annual 68 Ventures Bowl. The bowl festivities kicked off Sunday evening with a press conference and parade through downtown Mobile.

NEW ORLEANS — NBA legend, and celebrity, Shaquille O’Neal has been named the Krewe of Bacchus’ monarch in its 2025 Mardi Gras parade, bringing his towering 7-foot-1 frame and larger-than ...

The annual Krewe of Bacchus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans just named its crowned big star king for 2025, and 'big' is an understatement, considering the star is an inch over 7 feet tall.

Festival season may not be the same this year, but there are skeins of festival everywhere in Edinburgh from the giant Hello flags fluttering from the city's flagpoles to the International Festival's ...

Each year, the Bacchus Mardi Gras krewe crowns a big star to reign over the spectacular Uptown parade as monarch. At one inch over 7 feet tall, they don’t get much bigger than basketball legend ...

A bid to ban NSW Police from marching in next year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been voted down. All three different proposals put to the Mardi Gras annual general meeting on Saturday ...

NSW Police are facing fresh calls to be banned from marching at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Three resolutions relating to police marching in the parade will be put to a vote at the ...

There's a reason Mardi Gras in New Orleans is called "The Greatest Free Show on Earth." It's a larger-than-life party where any and everything goes—and that's part of the reason masks are worn.