Mardi Gras is known for its vibrant parades, extravagant costumes and raucous celebrations ... top of a greased pole," Jackson said. "It was wild from start to finish.” Beyond the revelry ...

EUNICE, La. (KLFY) — The Courir de Mardi Gras tradition is still celebrated in Cajun Country, along with its traditional costumes. However, there are few traditional costume makers left.

“It takes six or seven months to make a costume,” says David Perry, one of the big chiefs of the Wild Red Flame Indian tribe. “That’s sewing three or four hours a day after you get home from work, ...

These costumes are a particularly arresting aspect ... For all the traditions, deep play and history, one thing is clear: rural Mardi Gras is wild — with escapades full of revelry and abandon ...

Photo highlights today: Mardi Gras Indians emerged early to display their feathered and beaded costumes. Jabari Johnson and Jesiree Molett walk with Big Chief Howard Miller, of the Creole Wild ...

Stereotypical depictions of Mardi Gras often tie it to wild traditions ... bands up close and the pageantry of the floats and the costumes," Le Blanc says. "As a kid, it was great because we ...

Olivia “Livvy” Dunne took her 5.3 million Instagram followers on a wild ride Saturday as the Grand Marshal of the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans before Mardi Gras. Clad in an emerald ...

Costumes are strongly encouraged ... your connection with your plus one. Just imagine a Mardi Gras, costumed first date ... Always a wild time, the Annual Big Easy Ball brings out the characters.

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 ...

Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird s--t cuts loose and parties down." — Sherrilyn Kenyon 19. "Life of the Mardi." 20. "A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in ...