2023 Mobile-area Mardi Gras parade schedule: (For convenience, older parades have been moved to the bottom of this story) Monday, Feb. 13: Order of Venus, Miracle on the Bay, Order of Many Faces ...

The August parade is occurring exactly 170 days before the Conde Cavaliers annual parade takes place on Feb. 14 and serves as the traditional kicks off to the Mardi Gras season in Mobile.

Mobile, Alabama’s first big parade of the Mardi Gras season was held Friday night. With clear skies and nighttime temperatures in the 50s, a big crowd was in attendance to go after plastic beads ...

Cart Blackwell is curator at the Mobile Carnival Museum, the oldest such museum in the United States. Most people associate Mardi Gras with New Orleans, but Mobile is home to the country’s ...

Before New Orleans, there was Mobile, Alabama — the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America. Mobile, founded by Roman Catholics from France in 1702, was home to the first mystic society, or "krewe ...

Parade-goers vie for throws during a parade dubbed "Tardy Gras," to compensate for a cancelled Mardi Gras due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Mobile, Ala., Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) ...

The Greer’s “This Is Alabama” Mardi Gras parade rolled through the streets of downtown Friday evening as part of the festivities surrounding Saturday's 68 Ventures Bowl.

I prefer to celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, instead of New Orleans, Louisiana. Tourists can watch parades, eat delicious food, and party all night at both festivals. But I've found ...

Yesterday on a warm summer-like evening, four Carnival veterans and I traveled to Mobile to view a Mardi Gras-style parade that featured 29 floats, seven marshals on horseback, and six ...

Alabama’s port city is holding a main event of its Carnival season, a quirky bash honoring the man credited with helping make the nation’s first Mardi Gras celebration what it is.