Watch as Mardi Gras celebrations take place throughout New Orleans on Tuesday, March 4, otherwise known as Fat Tuesday.

Though one thing was certain of the Gothic novelist: her love for New Orleans and its culture ... welcomed in what his family called the "Mardi Gras house," whether they were on the 50-page ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The good times and parades still rolled in New Orleans for Mardi Gras Day celebrations early Tuesday, ahead of expected severe winds, thunderstorms and tornado warnings in the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The good times and parades still rolled in New Orleans for Mardi ... year's Mardi Gras Day fell unusually late in the year. But the outsized culture of street parties, extravagant ...

Apparently the trucks did not leave New Orleans unscathed, either, as many parade goers threw beads and other projectiles at the trucks driving down the parade route. Again, from jobles 95 ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans has a pulsating energy ... king cake decoration parties and illuminated riverboat parades. Feel like dancing for a chicken? Traditionally known as courir de Mardi ...