Lake Charles businessman and community leader W. Gray Stream will be the next Washington Mardi Gras king, and Yale University ...

The new documentary 'A King Like Me' reveals that members of the Black group Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club decided to ...

Yes, there really is such a thing as a Mardi Gras party in the heat of summer. The Krewe of Xanadu held one such party June ...

Mardi Gras is here to SERVE. A brand-new addition to your Manchester Pride Bank Holiday Weekend, this high-energy, high-glam, high-queer extravaganza takes over Depot Mayfield for two days of ...

Graffiti artists forgiven as scathingly satirical Mardi Gras krewe buys the former Frankie & Johnnie furniture store in New Orleans.

In his first Oscar-nominated film, Dogtooth, two parents sequester their three kids away from the world through physical and ...

Explore America and discover Louisiana in the Smithsonian's digitized collections.The state is a gumbo of varied cultures, predominantly Cajun—people whose ancestors were French-speaking Acadians from ...

News about Mardi Gras, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Why is Mardi Gras so late this year? Because it’s linked to Easter, the date of Mardi Gras can fall anywhere between Feb. 3 and March 9. That’s because Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first ...

But in the months that followed, the board issued advisories allowing campaign funds to cover some Mardi Gras expenses. In 1998 and 1999, the board said elected officials could use campaign money to ...

sioux city will have a mardi gras parade again next month, leading up to the saturday in the park concert that weekend. mardi gras returns for the 31st anniversary summertime tradition to downtown ...

“Washington Mardi Gras seems to be getting a lot of attention, and I don’t know why,” said Rep. Beau Beaullieu, R-New Iberia, who is cosponsoring the legislation with Wright, during a public ...