By 2005 the Zulu parades were premiere Mardi Gras events with lavish floats ... in 1909 by black working-class men — dock workers, wagon drivers, bartenders, hustlers, pimps — from a part ...

Kern said the design of the Super Bowl parade is still being finalized, but he predicts a 20-float procession, composed of signature floats loaned by the city’s Mardi Gras krewes and floats ...

Katy Perry and Train will headline the 2025 Endymion Extravaganza during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, returning to the Caesar's ...

Thousands of people lined the streets on Oct. 29, 1969, for the Jaycees annual Mardi Gras parade. It was believed to be the ...

Are New Orleans's Mardi Gras parades too big and too long? That's a question that city's Mardi Gras Advisory Council is considering, and some members say, "yes." Several parades this year ran ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Planning for next year's Pensacola Mardi Gras parade is underway. On Wednesday night, organizers held their annual citywide meeting with some of the krewes. The meeting gave the ...

A major draw of being in New Orleans during the weeks of Mardi Gras parades—now underway ending with the Big Day on February 13 th-is, naturally, sampling the restaurants in the city.

You might call Mardi Gras and Halloween calendar twins: Both holidays celebrate costumes, mischief, and overindulgence. Both are also great excuses to throw a parade, though for reasons unknown no ...

Qantas paid tribute on its parade float in honour of the former employee Luke Davies A moment's silence has been held in Australia at Sydney's annual Mardi Gras Pride a week after a police officer ...

In the mid-20th century, people aboard floats began throwing the prepackaged desserts into the crowds during Mobile's Mardi Gras parades. Mardi Gras is the only time I eat MoonPies, so there's ...