Each year during Mardi Gras, one image reliably surfaces in pop culture portrayals of New Orleans: revelers baring their chests in exchange for strings of brightly colored beads. For some, it is ...

Every Saturday at 8 a.m., no matter the weather, Chris Pomfret sets up a dozen or so big garbage cans outside his church in Algiers Point on New Orleans’ west bank. Glass clinks and clatters as ...

Shia LaBeouf wasted no time returning to the French Quarter’s Bourbon Street after the controversial actor’s arrest for battery during Mardi Gras Tuesday. The “Transformers” star, 39, has ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Mardi Gras celebrations took over downtown Mobile Tuesday night as the Order of Lashes and Order of Olympia parades rolled through packed streets filled with revelers in purple, ...

The beads are increasingly viewed as a problem, but a Mardi Gras without beads also seems unfathomable. That is why it was a radical step when the Krewe of Freret made the decision last year to ban ...

For the 2025 Mardi Gras season, Ground Krewe managed to sell $1 million of interesting and or environmentally sound "throws." ...

NEW ORLEANS — It is Carnival season in New Orleans. That means gazillions of green, gold and purple Mardi Gras beads. Once made of glass and cherished by parade spectators who were lucky enough to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It is Carnival season in New Orleans. That means gazillions of green, gold and purple Mardi Gras beads. The beads are increasingly viewed as a problem, but a Mardi Gras without ...

Passengers handed out beads and snacks while airport staff led a festive send-off parade before their international flight ...

Louisiana State University Associate Professor Naohiro Kato is at it again. He and his students have produced 1,500 cool-looking, 3D-printed, biodegradable Carnival bead necklaces, some of which will ...