Happy Mardi Gras to ... make their own flower costumes every year. Photo: Erika Goldring/Getty Images A Guy Fieri-themed krewe gathers on the edge of the French Quarter. Image: Chelsea Brasted ...

Naturally, in New Orleans we celebrate Easter with not one, but three French Quarter processions. Here's what to know.

Mardi Gras World offers a close-up look at some of the flamboyant floats and costumes used during New ... several points downtown and in the French Quarter. There are no designated pick-up times ...

COUNCIL ORDINANCE. IT IS A MARDI GRAS MAKE UP DAY TODAY, AS A SLEW OF PARADES RESCHEDULED BECAUSE OF WEATHER THREATS HIT THE STREETS TODAY, AND THAT INCLUDES THE BELOVED KREWE OF BARKUS.

The costumes. The parties ... it is a part of the city's landscape and spirit." Mardi Gras was observed for the first time in the New World by French pioneers at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The good times and parades still rolled in New Orleans for Mardi Gras Day celebrations early ... whose spectacular beaded and bejeweled costumes are topped with feathered ...