Happy Mardi Gras to all the glue gun wielders and DIY costumers in New Orleans ... Guy Fieri-themed krewe gathers on the edge of the French Quarter. Image: Chelsea Brasted/Axios Scrim costumes ...

Mardi Gras is synonymous with New Orleans, beads, daiquiris, king cake and Bourbon Street. And while the tradition in New Orleans began in the French Quarter more than 166 years ago, the largest ...

Partying in the French Quarter on Mardi Gras in New Orleans on Tuesday, February 13, 2018. Mardi Gras 2023 is Feb. 21, and Carnival starts up a few weeks earlier, on Jan. 6 as always.

The Mardi Gras ... to the French Quarter official website. Is Mardi Gras celebrated every year? Yes, Mardi Gras is celebrated every year with the exception of 2021, when New Orleans parades ...

More processions will continue every day through Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. Costumed revelers will jam the French Quarter as more parades roll in New Orleans’ suburbs, other Louisiana cities ...

Now, it's almost time for Mardi Gras ... has retained strong French and Cajun culture and traditions, including Mardi Gras. When are the 2025 Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans?

Mardi Gras is the third big test for New Orleans since the horrific Jan. 1 truck-ramming and shooting rampage on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter was allegedly carried out by a 42-year-old U.S ...

But the French Quarter is the oldest section of New Orleans, founded as a military-style grid of 70 squares in 1718 and named after King Louis XIV’s younger brother, the Duke of Orleans.

Waste from Mardi Gras awaiting collection in the French Quarter of New Orleans, on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Brook) Leander Nunez, 54, steered a massive truck onto Bourbon ...

SHOWS THE MOMENT SHOTS WERE FIRED ON CANAL STREET JUST AFTER MARDI GRAS WAS DEEMED OFFICIALLY OVER BY THE MAYOR AND WDSU REPORTER ELI BRAND HAS THAT VIDEO AND WHERE THAT INVESTIGATION STANDS FOR ...

A man was fatally shot in the French Quarter early Saturday morning on Mardi Gras weekend, New Orleans police say. He was found dead at the intersection of Chartres and Dumaine streets at about 1 ...