By the 1850s, a group of men in New Orleans established a secret society to help celebrate the holiday. The city’s first ...

A Mardi Gras game against LSU? That sounds familiar. Kentucky has been in this spot twice before, winning both Fat Tuesday ...

You’ll have to go beyond the tourist traps to find fantastic food that reflects New Orleans’s culture and history.

The promise from authorities for more security threatened to conflict with the city’s anything-goes sensibilities, and some ...

NEW ORLEANS — Happy Mardi Gras! Parades are rolling this Fat Tuesday ... Update: 10:26 a.m. Big Freedia shares their spot on the Zulu parade route To stream WWL TV on your phone, you need ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras with parades and partying, leaving behind an avalanche of waste. At dawn Wednesday ...

The Mardi Gras themed bar crawl started around 2 p.m ... Guests got a stamp for every spot they visited. Guests heard live music from the Queen City Crewe Brass Band, enjoyed drinks and snacks ...

Josh Herman and his family were one of few Mardi Gras revelers to brace the weather conditions in order to get a good spot for the afternoon parade. “You can’t stop us, we’ve seen a lot worse,” says ...

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is traditionally the last day before the season of Lent begins, a period of time characterized by self-denial and religious reflection. This year, Mardi Gras falls on ...