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For 40 days every spring, Christians observe the season of repentance and fasting known as Lent. In New Orleans, the change from Mardi Gras to Lent is striking.

In New Orleans, the contrast from Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday to Ash Wednesday and weeks of reflection is particularly stark, as member station WWNO's Rosemary Westwood reports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC ...

Donna Sims' memories were sparked by the photographs she took of the brass bands, jazz musicians and Mardi Gras Indians who ...

The break, known as Neptune Pass, has grown so large it is comparable to the 10th-largest river in North America and the ...

If you want to experience New Orleans properly, it's best to begin your tour in the French Quater. This lively neighborhood, also known as Vieux Carré, is the heart and soul of New Orleans.

Tucker, the baby Masai giraffe born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom on Feb. 13, makes his debut in the park’s Harambe Wildlife Reserve, with mom Mara and other members of the herd, Monday, April 7 ...

We are still monitoring levels of the Mississippi River. We are expecting a crest at the Carrollton gauge in New Orleans on April 25 at 16.5 feet. That would be just below flood stage. A gradual ...

Akan processions are not sedate, single-file marches but are more like Mardi Gras in New Orleans. They are filled, in British historian Thomas McCaskie’s words, with “dense masses of people ...

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