The U.S. Navy has selected the destroyer USS McFaul as the vessel that will dock in Mobile for Mardi Gras 2025, keeping alive a Carnival-season tradition for the Port City. The McFaul, an Arleigh ...

Johnson explained its origins in a 1985 Times-Picayune interview. He said his friend Frank Miller helped inspire him. “He gave me the lines about the Green Room and the Plaza. They were bars near the ...

Carnival Season typically starts after Epiphany on Jan. 6 and culminates on Ash Wednesday, which falls on March 5 this year.

The annual celebration of Mardi Gras is a Carnival season that begins on Jan. 6 and culminates on Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras is celebrated with parades, festive attire and the consumption of king cake.

MOBILE, Ala. ( WALA) - The USS McFaul (DDG 74) has been selected as Mobile’s 2025 Mardi Gras ship, the Mobile Council of the Navy League of the United States, the city of Mobile, and the Alabama Port ...

You saw Soul Queen Irma Thomas sing with Mick Jagger at Jazz Fest last spring. Now, you’ll see a statue of the Crescent City ...

Fat Tuesday, which is Mardi Gras Day, marks the last day of Carnival Season, and this day falls on March 4 this year. This means that the weekend when the major New Orleans Mardi Gras parades will ...

Carnival parades in Baton Rouge and the surrounding ... Preceding the parade will be the Chemin Neuf Mardi Gras Festival from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown New Roads. https ...

New Orleans' Mardi Gras festival has been in full swing since ... In both Italy and Brazil, the festival is known as "Carnival." Ash Wednesday is the first day of the liturgical season of Lent ...

A WDSU EXCLUSIVE SUPER BOWL IS OVER AND THE COUNTDOWN TO CARNIVAL IS ON NOW ... proposed to keep people across New Orleans safe for Mardi Gras. Whitford said he will be in New Orleans this ...

WELL, BIG CHANGES COMING TO CARNIVAL CELEBRATIONS IN MANDEVILLE ... setting up chairs and tailgates to celebrate Mardi Gras. But that tradition ends this year.City officials are banning all ...