Barefoot Mardi Gras is one of Padre Island's biggest fundraising events of the year—and it's back in full swing! It will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2025, and it is a free, family-friendly ...

Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads.

There are ways to recycle the cheap, plastic beads that have become synonymous with Mardi Gras, but many end up in landfills. They also clog up the city’s 100-year-old drainage system.

Beads in traditional Mardi Gras colors decorate floats in the Bastrop Mardi Gras Parade, Feb. 1, 2025. The second annual parade is part of the city's Mardi Gras festival- a cultural exchange with ...

The Carnival season will end on Mardi Gras, which is now one week away! From parades to colorful beads and masks, there are dozens of traditions involved in Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday.

“While best known for parties, costumes and beads, Mardi Gras has religious origins in the Catholic calendar as well as in pre-Christian pagan celebrations,” HuffPost tells us ...

Get your beads and King Cakes out ... take place in coastal towns near the Louisiana border. For instance, Beaumont’s annual Mardi Gras Southeast Texas festival, which ran from Feb. 28 to ...