Carnival Season typically starts after Epiphany on Jan. 6 and culminates on Ash Wednesday, which falls on March 5 this year.

Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, is less than a month away. Here's what to know about the end of the vibrant ...

Food historian Liz Williams told the Associated Press last year that the roots of king cake culture date to Saturnalia ...

The store offers an extensive Mardi Gras inventory including "all types of beads, trinkets, T-shirts and other items" for decoration and parade floats.

When the Mardi Gras season is in full swing, about 60 women in corsets will strut through the streets, glimmering with beaded images of Purple Drank ... the art of the beads.

The reason is a mystery. After returning home from attending the first Mardi Gras parade of the season, they decided to throw all of the gold, green and purple beads on the tree. Despite the ...

and the sound of beads clinking in the hands of revelers lining the sidewalks. One of the most culturally iconic celebrations in the United States, Mardi Gras is quickly approaching. Fat Tuesday ...

When people think New Orleans, they think Mardi Gras. The parades and beads are part of the ... in 1982 by the Rex parade in New Orleans. Purple stands for justice. Green is for faith, and gold ...