It was an especially obnoxious bit of political chicanery that put Katie Hobbs into office as Arizona’s governor in 2022. The ...

“The waste is becoming a defining characteristic of this event,” said Brett Davis, a New Orleans native who grew up catching beads at Mardi Gras parades. He now heads a nonprofit that works to ...

Beaumont is on the border of Big Thicket National Preserve ... All cakes come with an insert-your-own plastic baby and Mardi Gras beads. You can also have them shipped to your house. 12 Best Things To ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — As Mardi Gras festivities wind down, the colorful beads that often come with the celebrations can pile up, leaving many wondering what to do with the excess. The Arc of Acadiana ...

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 ...

“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 ...

While many think of parades, beads and floats, the Cajun Mardi Gras, particularly the Courir de Mardi Gras, offers a uniquely different experience. The tradition of Mardi Gras began as a Catholic ...

Mardi Gras comes to a close on Tuesday night ... Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.

Plastic strings of beads have a newfound worth ... It can all mean only one thing − Mardi Gras season has arrived. The season, known as Carnival, runs from the Epiphany on Jan. 6 through ...

Snowmass Village is bringing back its beloved Mardi Gras celebration for the 43rd year, filling Fat Tuesday with music, revelry, and plenty of beads on March 4, according to a press release. The ...

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.

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.