Mardi Gras 2025 may not have been the biggest on record, but it was the biggest post-pandemic Carnival, with hotel occupancy averaging nearly 90% for the five-day weekend and businesses owners ...

With 12th Night on Jan. 6 marking the start of Carnival, the 2025 season lasted 58 days. The 2026 season won't be quite as long, with 43 days from Jan. 6 to Fat Tuesday on Feb. 17.

Everyone has heard the good news about Super Bowl LIX and the fact that it shattered records in New Orleans, but Carnival ...

With the sun rising, people stumbled out of bars and saluted the trash collectors. A drunken couple shrieked and leaped onto ...

In the French Quarter, known for its ... traditionally hands over the key to the city to Rex, the king of Carnival, on Mardi Gras Day. The tradition of blazing torches lighting the way for ...

said Carnival and Mardi Gras are also seasons for families to celebrate “the unique culture of New Orleans.” “That is often lost in the coverage of the risqué in the French Quarter and ...

Watch as Mardi Gras celebrations take place throughout New Orleans on Tuesday, March 4, otherwise known as Fat Tuesday.

said Carnival and Mardi Gras are also seasons for families to celebrate “the unique culture of New Orleans.” “That is often lost in the coverage of the risqué in the French Quarter and ...

Waste from Mardi Gras awaiting collection in the French Quarter of New Orleans ... up many of its most popular streets over the 58-day Carnival season. Beaded necklaces, tossed from balconies ...

There was never any question that Mardi ... of Mardi Gras. Then, early on New Year’s Day, a terrorist rammed his pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in the city’s French Quarter ...

Mardi Gras is a long-standing ... And it only grew from there. In 1711, Carnival was officially born when a papier-mâché bull, in honor of Boeuf Gras (French, meaning 'Fatted (Gras) Ox (Boeuf ...