At this event they welcomed new members and selected the theme for this year’s highly anticipated Mardi Gras parade. The chosen theme for 2026 is Island Time. Adrienne Steele, a representative ...

(Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) FILE - A rider tosses beads as the Krewe of Argus rolls to the theme 'Argus is Golden ... wind up amid all the other Mardi Gras trash worries environmentalists.

“Louisiana Fairs and Festivals” is the theme as the Krewe of Bacchus rolls ... South today just as costumed revelers celebrate Mardi Gras with huge parades and partying in the streets of ...

By 2005 the Zulu parades were premiere Mardi Gras events with lavish floats. Gone was the raggedy pants parody of the original parade; the king and queen of Zulu reigned in elegant tuxedo and gown.