Happy Mardi Gras to all the glue gun wielders and DIY costumers in New Orleans. Here are a few that caught our eye. The ...

Mardi Gras—just one of the festival’s many names—is marked by raucous parties and parades, revelers wearing elaborate costumes, and delicious foods. Some begin celebrating on the night ...

“Mardi Gras is all about having these moments ... Thousands of revelers sporting beads and outlandish costumes filled the streets as New Orleans prepared to celebrate just ahead of bad weather.

“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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Happy Mardi Gras! Watch WWL Lousianas live Bourbon Street cam here. Parades have rolled, and revelers are now celebrating throughout the French Quarter. Experience the energy of ...

and Mardi Gras is the best thing for world peace. It really is. It really is. I mean this is the one day out of the year. Everyone comes together as one, costumes, whatever, it doesn't matter what ...

PHOTOS: New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras Day with costumes and revelry despite weather concerns Jeremy Speed, a 40-year-old Krewe of Zulu member who grew up watching the parade, rode a float ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands of revelers adorned in beads and outlandish costumes will fill the streets of New Orleans as the city celebrates Mardi Gras Day despite anticipated severe storms.