Every year, cities across the United States pause in March to celebrate an annual festival known as Mardi Gras. The celebrations are most concentrated in areas such as New Orleans, Mobile, and other ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS)— Shreveport Green is collecting Mardi Gras beads throughout the city until March 30th to divert waste and positively impact the environment. Lauren Jones, the Director of ...

As the good times roll at Mardi Gras, float by float, the throws filter through the crowd to the roads and sidewalks below—beads, trinkets and Moon Pies—covering the ground in a layer of rejected ...

Arc of Acadiana is collecting beads for its annual Mardi Gras Bead Drive, an initiative to support individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities across Acadiana. Through this ...

The photos include a short-sleeve orange button-down, a blue jacket, a red University of Houston T-shirt and white or gray sweatpants. NEW ORLEANS – It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season ...

Louisiana might be the king of Mardi Gras. However, its neighbor loves to party too. From beads and balls to boudin and gumbo to glittery parade floats and sounds of Zydeco, Texas offers a hearty ...

Barefoot Mardi Gras is one of Padre Island's biggest fundraising events of the year—and it's back in full swing! It will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2025, and it is a free, family-friendly beach ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with ...

In the weeks before Lent, their branches begin to glisten in the late winter sunlight. The parades begin, and day after day, the beads make their landing, tangling themselves—purple, green, and golden ...

So lusted after in the moment, Mardi Gras beads have a cruel afterlife. The lucky ones find a useful purpose long after the parades stop: decorating a fence, maybe, or as an eye-catching art project.

City workers in Mobile, Ala. shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck. This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. MOBILE, Ala. — The trees tell the tale. In the ...

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