The event is rooted in African and Native American influences, with ties to both Catholic and Black masking Indian traditions ...

Standing since 1840, this unassuming brick structure on South Broadway has lived more lives than a jazz cat – boarding house, ...

Shippensburg University College of Arts and Sciences Dean Sabita Manian hosted the inaugural Beads and Beignets social hour on March 5 in the Dauphin Humanities Center Fishbowl.

UPDATE, 3/14/25, 4:30 P.M.:Mamou Mardi Gras shooting suspect, Tre’land Castille, 19, has been transferred from Montgomery County, Texas back to Louisiana. Castille will be extradited to the St ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - The good times have rolled here in Southwest Louisiana and now it’s time for the beads to find a new home. “People can come and any of the beads that they don’t want, they ...

Mardi Gras is a culturally significant event in Louisiana, but it can also leave a big mess, with beads and other plastic throws scattered in the streets and waterways. The Krewe de Coulee had ...

The road to the ESSENCE Festival of Culture™ is paved with beads, the lively sounds of brass bands, and the unstoppable spirit of the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale. For the fourth time, ESSENCE, Femme ...

Why isn't Mardi Gras on the same day ... in the astronomical and religious terminology behind our favorite bead-throwing holiday, the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval ...

Amid the weather threat and security measures, Mardi Gras celebrations persevered. Along with colorful floats and paradegoers with their necks hunched from a hefty haul of shimmery beads ...

Severe weather alerts caused Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans and other cities throughout the U.S. to be moved up or canceled Erika Goldring/Getty Severe weather systems are threatening Mardi ...