Mardi Gras parades are known for featuring colorful plastic bead necklaces, but here's the surprisingly deep meaning behind ...

As Mardi Gras festivities wind down, the colorful beads that often come with the celebrations can pile up, leaving many ...

Before Lent begins, Louisiana’s Catholic communities celebrate Mardi Gras the old-fashioned way — with prayer, music and a ...

Saturday morning kicked off the 39th annual Youngsville Mardi Gras Parade. Parade goers dressed to impress, sporting a ...

The Madison County Mardi Gras celebration puts a redneck spin on the event that occurs before Fat Tuesday every year.

The main events last night were the parades from the Krewe (pronounced “crew”) of Proteus and the Krewe of Orpheus. And ...

By Sara Bonisteel They throw lots of things at the Carnival parades in New Orleans: plastic beads and stuffed animals ... the founder of the Mardi Gras Guide, now in its 49th annual edition.

Jasmine Batiste, 28, who wore an intricate blue beaded ... planned Mardi Gras Day parades due to anticipated high winds and thunderstorms. “This is disappointing, but our top priority is ...

And if you have a bunch of Mardi Gras beads laying around, and who doesn't, the day after Mardi Gras, Lafayette Consolidated ...

Whether it's the over-the-top feast of Thanksgiving ... to count more than the number of beads we collect each year, we know that the economic impact of Mardi Gras has been put at hundreds of ...