NEW ORLEANS ... for beads from passing floats, thousands of people gathered in the streets of New Orleans to mark the culmination of the famous Mardi Gras celebration Tuesday.

For most, Fat Tuesday conjures images of beads, beer, and the Big Easy, but the history of Mardi Gras in New Orleans begins in Roman Catholic Europe. Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday ...

In New Orleans, Mardi Gras is not just Fat Tuesday itself, it's a multi-week celebration. It's also a huge mess. The plastic beads, cups, and trinkets that fly from the floats don't all get caught ...

Fat Tuesday is the biggest day ... the Big Easy to line the streets and catch beads thrown from the floats. Michael Sampey has been coming to New Orleans to see the many floats for over 20 years.

While Fat Tuesday is most often associated with colorful beads and parades in New Orleans, the holiday has a long history and interesting traditions. In the United States, the first-ever Fat ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP ... sit on and thus get a better chance to catch beads and trinkets — prized possessions thrown out by float riders on Fat Tuesday. Click here to view pictures of Mardi ...

Webber, a New ... Orleans. “People were encouraged to use up butter, oil, and meat products and not have them on hand because they could not be eaten during Lent – hence (how) Fat Tuesday ...

More on Fat Tuesday, New Orleans' cultural celebration The cultural ... eating king cake and sharing bead necklaces with gold, green and purple. Rio de Janeiro's famed Carnival celebration begins ...

NEW ORLEANS ... clamoring for beads from passing floats, thousands of people gathered in the streets of New Orleans to mark the culmination of the famous Mardi Gras celebration Tuesday.

NEW ORLEANS ... clamoring for beads from passing floats, thousands of people gathered in the streets of New Orleans to mark the culmination of the famous Mardi Gras celebration Tuesday.