Shaquille O'Neal will reign as Bacchus for the parade this year. The parade rolls on Sunday, March 2 at 5:15 p.m.

No stranger to disasters and hardship, New Orleans transforms itself and its traditions based on what befalls it. Take the changes wrought by 2005's Hurricane Katrina, and those from the ...

Carnival Season typically starts after Epiphany on Jan. 6 and culminates on Ash Wednesday, which falls on March 5 this year.